Example sentences of "[num] he [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1873 to 1876 he acted as marine superintendent with Hargrove , Fergusson & Jackson , for whom he constructed both ships and machinery , striving always to achieve greater power , efficiency , and economy . |
| 2 | Between 1863 and 1872 he worked as a demonstrator at the Pharmaceutical Society under Professor John Attfield ; he also obtained a B.Sc. |
| 3 | While employed at St Stephen 's , he lived within the parish of St Margaret , Westminster , and he was active in parish life at least from 1522 onwards ; during 1552–4 he served as one of the churchwardens . |
| 4 | The Intel 80860 he described as a good implementation of a poorly thought-out microprocessor architecture . |
| 5 | In 1639–40 he acted as a secret courier , disguised as a commercial traveller , for the English opposition leaders in their clandestine — if not treasonable — correspondence with the Scottish Covenanters . |
| 6 | In 1801 he took as a partner Anthony Newman , and was himself replaced by John Darling in 1809 . |
| 7 | At the end of 1985 he qualified as a solicitor ( ‘ this was the safety net and I had written my thesis on the copyright laws , which has been very useful to me ’ ) , but he had already decided to take the plunge as a full time professional musician . |
| 8 | He was awarded his BA in 1898 , and during the years between that date and 1903 he worked as a schoolmaster and tried a number of other jobs . |
| 9 | In 1662–3 he served as lord mayor of London . |
| 10 | Since 1987 Bond 's own fortunes had also declined , however , and on Sept. 26 he resigned as chief executive of the Bond Corporation Holdings in an effort to induce his creditors to accept a reconstruction of the beleaguered Bond group . |
| 11 | As early as 1826 he served as a university examiner in mathematics , the first of many occasions . |
| 12 | Until 1849 he worked as a pastoral priest at the Cathedral of St George in Southwark , which he was reluctant to leave . |
| 13 | In 1880–1 he served as president of the Institution . |
| 14 | In 1941 he qualified as a parachutist and then became a founder member of the Indian Airborne Unit : he was Brigade Major of 50 Brigade , then commanded 152 Battalion , and later 77 Indian Parachute Brigade . |
| 15 | In 1941 he stood as an independent candidate in four by-elections ; but although he retained his deposit on each occasion , there was to be no political comeback for this highly cantankerous patriot . |
| 16 | From the 1920s to the 1940s he acted as the principal representative of the provisional administration in Washington , having given up the presidency . |
| 17 | After his ordination in 1740 he served as curate at Llandeilo Abercywyn , but he could not resist the urge to preach in the Methodist way far outside his curacy , a practice Jones severely criticized : ‘ it is the cry of the crowd that he will be governed by . ’ |
| 18 | But he had always had a wish to join the Army , and at sixteen he enlisted as a drummer boy . |
| 19 | However , on Dec. 17 he resigned as Minister without Portfolio in Kohl 's Cabinet and as deputy leader of the CDU ( although not as a Bundestag member ) . |
| 20 | He retired from medicine in 1930 , although for a brief period during World War II he acted as locum for a Cambridge doctor who had joined up . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The European revolutions of 1848 he saw as a golden opportunity for introducing constitutional monarchies and a united Germany in alliance with Britain . |
| 24 | In 1633 he acted as publisher for A Fresh Suit against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship by William Ames [ q.v. ] , and another work entitled The Opinion … concerning Bowing at the Name , or Naming , of Jesus . |
| 25 | The appellant came to this country from India in 1967 and in 1973 he qualified as a pharmacist . |
| 26 | Between 1281 and 1285 he acted as the attorney of a number of different litigants in the Common Bench and the Exchequer , perhaps while studying law as an apprentice of the king 's court . |
| 27 | In 1224 he acted as envoy to the disgraced courtier , Falkes de Breauté [ q.v. ] , during the siege of Bedford Castle . |
| 28 | In 1799 he settled as a barrister in Newcastle upon Tyne , rapidly acquiring an enviable reputation as a man of strict integrity and sound judgement , whether in the courts or as an arbitrator in industrial disputes . |
| 29 | In 1906 he became university lecturer in palaeography , in 1920 he received a Cambridge Litt.D. , in 1925 he served as Sandars reader in bibliography , and in 1927 he was elected as the first full-time Disney professor of archaeology . |
| 30 | In 1272 he acted as a justice of the general eyre in Herefordshire , Staffordshire , and Shropshire . |