Example sentences of "he served as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war some months later he was recalled to Germany ; he served as a stretcher-bearer in the army of the Loire and was wounded . |
| 2 | He served as a lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery of the 51st Highland division in 1916–18 . |
| 3 | When Italy entered the war he served as a lieutenant in the army , and , later , as a lieutenant-commander in the navy , working as a military communications consultant . |
| 4 | It was only for the last three years of his life , from 1630 to 1633 , that he served as a country parson , as Vicar of Bemerton in Wiltshire and Canon of Salisbury . |
| 5 | As early as 1826 he served as a university examiner in mathematics , the first of many occasions . |
| 6 | He served as a member of the royal commission on Indian expenditure ( 1895–1900 ) but he made an error in appearing as a witness before the other commissioners . |
| 7 | He served as a martial-law prime minister from 1985 to 1988 , when he was dismissed by the late military president , General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq , after he tried to assert his authority . |
| 8 | Inspired by a sense of private and public duty , he served as a magistrate in Widnes for many years . |
| 9 | As a young man he served as a clerk to Robert Corbett , of Stanwardine , custos rotulorum of Shropshire and MP in 1654–5 . |
| 10 | Gosse 's career was interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1914 , in which he served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps . |
| 11 | After World War I ( in which he served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps , stationed in Maidstone ) Freeman increasingly became involved in the eugenics movement , producing a lengthy work on the ills of society , Social Decay and Regeneration , in 1921 . |
| 12 | He served as a vice-president of the College . |
| 13 | A Freemason , he served as a JP for Kent ( 1780 ) , Middlesex ( 1783 ) , and the Tower of London Liberty . |
| 14 | From 1947 to 1953 he served as a trustee of the National Gallery , to which he left a fine collection of photographs of paintings which he had often used to stimulate a love of art in undergraduates . |
| 15 | He served as a churchwarden from 1856 to 1863 and as a county magistrate . |
| 16 | On returning to England he served as a staff captain in the War Office and then as an assistant secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence , an appointment which was to alter completely the course of his career . |
| 17 | After short periods as a lecturer in mathematics at King Alfred 's Teacher Training College in Winchester and as a technical researcher in aircraft vibration for de Havilland , he joined the Meteorological Office as a technical officer in 1938 , where he served as a weather forecaster in fighter and reconnaissance groups . |
| 18 | His move into intelligence came during the Second World War in which he served as a colonel and worked with Eisenhower 's Supreme Allied Headquarters . |
| 19 | Never given office by the Liberals , he served as a back-bencher on several royal commissions and committees . |
| 20 | Harris married in 1820 and about the same time began his long association with the British Museum , where , in addition to supplying facsimiles , he served as an attendant in the reading rooms . |
| 21 | Nothing is known of his education or early years beyond the fact that from 1815 to 1817 he served as an ensign in the 27th Foot and subsequently in the 91st Foot , from which he was obliged to retire on account of ill health in 1821 . |
| 22 | He served as an admiral in 1597 and 1598 . |
| 23 | From 1915 to 1918 he served as an officer in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve , and by the time he was released he had been appointed professor of Celtic ( a title later changed to Welsh ) at Cardiff , a post he held until his retirement in 1946 . |
| 24 | He served as an officer in the Royal Navy during the 1939–45 War , before qualifying as an electrical engineer for the North Eastern Electricity Board in Newcastle . |
| 25 | Alistair McAlpine , the merchant builder , had , when he served as the Party 's treasurer during the Thatcher years , begun the tradition of a lavish party to which only la creme had been invited . |