Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [conj] [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do n't need to go and work as a librarian abroad , for God 's sake . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to grow and develop as a person in areas that I have not explored yet . |
| 3 | Up to the commencement of school life , the major gratifications of the child in its interactions with others have been based largely on the overt and tacit approval of its parents its activities have been categorised in part according to the extent by which maternal and paternal love has waxed or waned as a result of them . |
| 4 | Member of Clan othel URC and has worked and served as a form of day pastor at Clygarthy URC and he has come from the Anglican tradition Church of England and he has erm over the years towards the reform tradition . |
| 5 | This finality makes it proper to regard death as the most serious harm that may be inflicted on another , and to regard a person who chooses to inflict that harm as the most culpable of offenders , in the absence of some excuse or justification . |
| 6 | Animals would have known , would have caught his scent , or have seen him suddenly among them , and they 'd have turned and fled as a herd will turn from a predator . |
| 7 | History may come to see that embrace as a gesture of fond farewell . |
| 8 | It must be said , however , that this emerging new image for consultancies has been helped enormously by the fact that these quoted consultancies are substantially based in financial public relations which , of course , the City of London , Merchant Banks , and business interests in general do understand and accept as a legitimate part of their world . |
| 9 | The defendant did leave and worked as a milkman for a competitor of his former employer . |
| 10 | If a personal creditor of the heir has been sent into possession in order to protect his property , and has obtained an object left under trust to me , it is agreed that I ought not to be prejudiced by him in any way ; no more than if he had received that object as a pledge from the heir himself . |
| 11 | It is further alleged that the last-but-one head of the secret police quietly sold to his wife and family a mansion which the service had commandeered and used as a torture centre in the 1970s . |
| 12 | Then I had slept and awoken as the bus stopped amongst a scatter of mud huts . |
| 13 | Er if , if you , if you had , you had to dig a little hole in , in the , in the , by the wall on the , on the pavement like that to hold about sixty four marbles say , and you 'd start off and say , give or give or take give or take as a lawyer , I used to have four marbles , and whoever was taken that was a lawyer of four marbles , I do n't know why . |
| 14 | Liddie had trained and practised as an accountant before she started a family , but she had not really enjoyed her work . |
| 15 | On his bookshelves were the tattered copies of Tarka the Otter and the works of Cherry Kearton that he had read and re-read as a schoolboy , weeping the while . |
| 16 | ‘ We have learned many lessons since our game against New Zealand in August and have become a better team because we have travelled and toured as a squad . |
| 17 | Or , ‘ Ladies and Gentlemen , I am delighted to be invited to tell you about the amusing experiences I have had while travelling/teaching as a , etc . ’ |
| 18 | I just wanted to say that speaking as a psychiatrist |