Example sentences of "[pron] acted as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My reporting for the Times-Herald under the avuncular guidance of Fred Workman ran the whole spectrum of events , incidents and activities : I spent days at the annual Wild West Rodeo and Stampede absorbing as much of the cowboy lingo as possible ; I acted as Master of Ceremonies for a fox trot competition sponsored by Cal Temple and Trudie , his business-like wife ; I interviewed all visiting celebrities including MacKenzie King , the Prime Minister , and R.B. Bennett , the Leader of the Opposition in Ottawa ; I interviewed Jimmy Gardiner as Minister of Agriculture , after he gave up his post as Premier of Saskatchewan ; I covered celebrity concerts and the annual Chatauqua programmes , among many other things . |
| 2 | The fields were divided into strips of round-backed ridges , separated one from the other by ploughed furrows which acted as land drains . |
| 3 | It was probably this John de Lovetot who acted as bailiff of the escheated honour of Peverel of Nottingham from 1258 to 1260 or 1261 . |
| 4 | Entertainment was in the capable hands of instrument mechanic Dennis Brown , who acted as compere and arranged for a guest appearance by Blackpool duo Rendezvous . |
| 5 | James Dunn , an official in the State Department who acted as chairman of the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee , informed Brigadier-General George Lincoln of the Operations Division that it was desirable that as much of Korea as possible be occupied . |
| 6 | He had remembered having seen , that first day , some goats grazing further on down the river bank , had made some inquiries and discovered that they were taken down on to the river bed every morning by a boy who acted as herd . |
| 7 | Those acquainted with them , like Sergiu Celac , who acted as interpreter for so many meetings with English-speaking heads of government and heads of state , sometimes thought that they detected vestiges of their changing sexual relationship . |
| 8 | Cedd , who acted as interpreter at the council , died in this plague ( HE 111 , 23 ) , probably on 26 October 664 , and so did Tuda , appointed bishop of Lindisfarne in succession to Colmań who returned to Iona after Oswiu had given his decision at Whitby in favour of the Catholic Easter ( HE 111 , 27 ) . |
| 9 | Ronnie Cairns , a fluent Japanese speaker who acted as interpreter , said : ‘ They met these boys in Botanic Gardens and were chatted up . |
| 10 | This was not quite ready when Mozart set off for Munich and so Mozart 's letters to his father , who acted as intermediary between him and the librettist , reveal a great deal of the process of writing . |
| 11 | Among the former was the yeoman of the chamber Nicholas Leventhorpe of Bramham ( Yorks. ) who acted as go-between for the exiled king and Henry Percy , whom Edward had restored to the earldom of Northumberland in 1470 . |
| 12 | Among the former was the yeoman of the chamber Nicholas Leventhorpe of Bramham ( Yorks. ) who acted as go-between for the exiled king and Henry Percy , whom Edward had restored to the earldom of Northumberland in 1470 . |
| 13 | I have the autographs of , inter alia , John Gunn , who acted as umpire for Sir Julien 's XI after retirement from the county side ; G.F.H. Heane ; I.A.R. Peebles and F.C.W. Newman . |
| 14 | However , the platoon cook no doubt would have left his clobber behind , while the batman who acted as bodyguard ( striker ) and the two snipers would have protected the withdrawal of the vital radio . |
| 15 | On the first anniversary of the project 's completion Ray Sunman , the council officer who acted as project co-ordinator , says the Revival scheme has sown a legacy the benefits of which will be reaped by future generations . |
| 16 | In the context of such a history , how are we to interpret our local sensation , the death of an obscure Englishman , who acted as house agent , courier , travel guide , purveyor of groceries in short supply , house-sitter and , it has been daringly suggested , pimp to the English army of occupation in Chiantishire ? |
| 17 | He was succeeded by F. W. Anderson who acted as palaeontologist in Edinburgh until 1953 except for the period of the Second World War when he was in the army . |
| 18 | ( The libretto of Le Guy de chesne specified groups of shepherds and shepherdesses in the final pages , then a druidic march , then the ceremony , and lastly ‘ des danses vives et agreables ’ ) Indeed , it might have been the composer , Laruette , who acted as conducteur from the singers ' names in the libretto it appears that he did not sing a solo role in his own opéra . |
| 19 | The Board instructed their clerk to communicate with the governors of the infirmary on the matter , and in his reply a week later , the house surgeon there ( who acted as hospital secretary ) said that he had thought the case capable of being treated as an out-patient . |
| 20 | At Ryswick in 1697 the building in which the two sides met was arranged so that the Swedish diplomat who acted as mediator had a central position , with the French representatives and those of the anti-French coalition each occupying an identical wing . |
| 21 | Above : Richly robed , the Samburu tribesman who acted as guide to the party . |
| 22 | However , the appointment of a receiver must not be equated with that of a liquidator : ( i ) where a receiver is appointed the company need not go into liquidation and if it does the same person who acted as receiver will normally not be appointed liquidator ; ( ii ) liquidation is a class action designed to protect the interests of the unsecured creditors whereas , as we shall see , receivership is designed to protect the interests of the security holders who appointed the receiver and it is for this reason that a receiver can be appointed even where the company is in liquidation ; ( iii ) liquidation terminates the trading power of the company whereas this is not the case with receivership ; ( iv ) a liquidator has power to disclaim onerous property , something not possible in the case of receivership ; ( v ) a liquidator in a compulsory winding up is an officer of the court whereas this is not the case with a receiver unless appointed by the court ; ( vi ) lastly , it is easier to obtain recognition of liquidation as opposed to receivership in proceedings in foreign courts . |
| 23 | ‘ The ambiguous reference to contributions Olivetti paid to ASST ( one of the state-owned telephone companies ) has been clarified , confirming that Olivetti did not ever work with ASST , but paid Mr Giuseppe Lo Moro , who acted as collector for the political parties for equipping the Post . |
| 24 | In 1915 she helped to organize an international women 's peace conference at The Hague , and until 1922 she acted as treasurer to the Women 's International League . |
| 25 | From time to time she acted as research adviser to the Cambridge students who came to her laboratory for instruction . |
| 26 | In 1865 Octavia Hill gave the realists further impetus when , with Ruskin 's help , she bought slum dwellings at Paradise Place to which she acted as manager , visiting the tenants frequently , in part to collect the rents which she spent on improvements . |
| 27 | She sympathised with the Duchess of York as she fought against her lack of freedom , she was tactful and kind when her own daughter told her that her marriage was dead and , finally , she acted as mediator to Charles and Diana as they fought out the death throes of their loveless union . |
| 28 | We acted as Dealer on the first Sterling Commercial Paper programme with a syndicated bank guarantee . |
| 29 | They acted as bait and , once a U-boat surfaced , could out-gun her . |
| 30 | ‘ They acted as judge and jury and suspended me for ten weeks without a trial . |