Example sentences of "as a [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a fourteen-year-old she had made her debut in a particularly sophisticated team , and went on to appear on Broadway . |
| 2 | Viewers latched on to , and sympathized with , a vulnerable character who was unable to keep a job — as a security guard he lost his dog and as a fireman he kept missing the fire engine — and roared with laughter as his world collapsed around him . |
| 3 | It is one of the humbling lessons we learn from living with companion animals , namely that we are in so many ways their inferiors , even though as a species we have come to dominate the planet . |
| 4 | As a resort it has changed though , having passed out of the possession of the royals and their followers and into that principally of the world 's surfers , who come to this coast for technical reasons , because it has by all accounts the best waves in Europe on which to perch for the ride into town . |
| 5 | Certainly he never became an outstanding dancer , but as a performer he did have a feeling for movement and character that enabled him to make a theatrical impact in some roles not needing much technique or classical style . |
| 6 | As a present I had received a large book of complex Legion history written in difficult French . |
| 7 | At some earlier , more enthusiastic , stage in my career as a detective I had compiled dossiers on everyone of any importance in the City . |
| 8 | This is legitimate if we are tracing the evolution of contemporary attitudes to religion , or studying the history of ideas ; but if we wish to regain an impression of eighteenth century people as a whole we need to recall that , even among educated men ( themselves a very small minority ) , intellects cast in the mould of David Hume and Tom Paine were exceedingly rare , however great their later influence may have been . |
| 9 | Such as a function you have to attend in your professional capacity ? |
| 10 | Since retiring as a GP he has continued to perform a variety of tasks for the Order . |
| 11 | If as a member you wish to participate would you please write to Convocation Office ( address on back page ) , giving permission for your name and address to be released to enquirers . |
| 12 | Mr Leigh also highlighted the tensions in Government by revealing that as a minister he had organised other meetings of junior ministers in opposition to the Maastricht Bill paving the way for closer European ties . |
| 13 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 14 | For too long as a society we have neglected the potential of our children . |
| 15 | There appears to be little evidence that as a society we have become so rich that a substantial number of people are at this point . |
| 16 | As a child he had played a game with some of his friends where one child would stand behind another and put his hands round the other 's chest . |
| 17 | As a child he had felt very unnoticed , lost in the middle between older and younger children . |
| 18 | As a child he had done the same thing , as a game ; something to make life more interesting , give It some purpose , then he had begun to have dreams about it , to come to realise that it was real , that he had had an insight when he started to play the game , He had to do it now ; it felt horrible and uncomfortable when he tried to stop , even just to see what it was like walking down a street breathing " normally " . |
| 19 | As a child he had studied them with fascination , enquiring what the bull was doing to the lady , and receiving from his parents no very satisfying answer . |
| 20 | As a child he had lain in bed long into the night , plotting his escape from an alcoholic father and a mother who managed not to see the bruises and the tears . |
| 21 | When as a child I had alluded to Mr Broadhurst 's corpulence , my mother had snapped at me . |
| 22 | As a child I had watched history being made . |
| 23 | ‘ As a child I learned to love the countryside , ’ she says . |
| 24 | Shannon had never been able to believe that ; as a child she 'd seen a photograph of her father , and even then she 'd been stunned to silence by his incredible good looks . |
| 25 | As a child she had suffered from a mild case of polio , which left one leg slightly shorter than the other . |
| 26 | As a child she had had a piggy bank ; she could recall the physical satisfaction of its jingling weight in her hands . |
| 27 | But the thing which must have been nearest to her heart , because she returned to it so often , was how as a child she had walked to church along the sands . |
| 28 | John Windle picked out Drew as a man he had seen the worse for drink and in a threatening attitude in Cross Street at 4.20 on 22 June . |
| 29 | Whether we should include as a consideration whether this particular eighth new settlement in this particular sector would have the capacity to expand beyond two thousand and si In saying that I 'm conscious that we have ducked because as a panel we have to duck . |
| 30 | When Karen Stephens trained as a hairdresser she had to learn more than just the rudiments of cutting and blow-drying/ She also had to tackle the problems of learning how to lip-read in a mirror , as 20-year-old Karen has been deaf all her life . |