Example sentences of "[prep] his [adj] [noun sg] as [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , Sir John , fourth baronet ( c. 1666–1737 ) , patron of the charity-school movement in early eighteenth-century Wales , and , more generally , of the evangelical revival , was born c .1666 ( the evidence of his funerary monument as to his date of birth being demonstrably unreliable ) , the second but first surviving son of Sir Erasmus Philipps , third baronet , of Picton Castle , Pembrokeshire , a Commonwealth commissioner for the propagation of the gospel , and his second wife Catherine , daughter of Edward Darcy of Newhall , Derbyshire . |
| 2 | At ten fifty-five hours sharp Lance-Corporal Trumper stood trembling outside the colonel 's tent , almost as fearful of his commanding officer as of going over the top . |
| 3 | In his darker moments Rincewind had come up with his own explanation as to why even minor spells refused to stay in his head for more than a few seconds . |
| 4 | Milton was taken aback as much by Fishbane 's obvious pride in his priapic reputation as by the literacy of the nickname . |
| 5 | Traditionally an Englishman is as much what he does in his free time as in his hours of work , and both Who 's who and the obituary columns honour this fact . |
| 6 | Yet in one sense the circumstances of any and every poem are ‘ special ’ ; and at any rate all these instances show that , in his own writing as in the writing of others , Pound was prepared to recognize circumstances which justified departing very far indeed from Ford 's and the imagists ' precepts about diction , indeed flying in the face of them . |
| 7 | If the reader has any doubts in his own mind as to the mechanics of the ECM ( and foreign exchange market ) , a revision of the main points in this chapter ( and Chapter 3 ) should be made . |
| 8 | There was something cabalistic about the bandy legs of a road sweeper , who stood with his back to me leaning on his outstretched broom as on a catamaran while he lit his pipe … . |
| 9 | It was held that since the buyer knew much more about Persia than the seller , he must have been relying on his own judgment as to whether the tractors were suitable for the Persian market . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) payment of the plaint fee and fee for service by bailiff where appropriate ( see Table of Fees ) ; ( 3 ) where the plaintiff is under a disability an undertaking by his next friend as to costs ( N235 ) or a sealed office copy order of the Court of Protection ( Ord 10 , r 2 ) ; ( 4 ) civil aid certificate , if any , and notice of issue of certificate for service on the defendant ( Civil Legal Aid ( General ) Regulations 1980 , reg 50 ) . |