Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to understand him a little The rubber clothing , for example , I never saw as part of his own sexual fantasy world , but as part of the fascination he had with all secret worlds . |
| 2 | Unix workstations are now being installed between the mainframe and the personal computers , which formerly served as SNA terminals . |
| 3 | In a bare , narrow room , which also served as Zbo 's ‘ gallery ’ , Modigliani worked daily for fifteen francs . |
| 4 | The factions agreed on a compromise under which the Khmer Rouge delegation would initially be based in the SNC 's compound in Phnom Penh , a former government guest house which also served as quarters for some UN officials . |
| 5 | The plans of the groups enable them to be identified with those shown on large-scale Ordnance Survey maps , except for those sites subsequently ploughed out , which often survived as ring-ditches . |
| 6 | Another principal suggestion is that these relatively simple compounds were first held ( ‘ adsorbed ’ ) on the surface of clays , which then acted as catalysts , and caused them to react together . |
| 7 | She long acted as examiner in geography for various institutions , and her influence on the training of the next generation of students of geography was substantial . |
| 8 | BNL owns one-quarter of a factoring company headed by Luigi Scotti , who just resigned as president of Federconsorzi . |
| 9 | This bloke and his daughter who like lived as tramps |
| 10 | Few , however , could have imagined that the man who once served as chairman of Clitheroe Young Conservatives would be asked to don the cocked hat and plumes of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda . |
| 11 | Although this still compared well with other Western states , in May 1971 the Finance Minister , Alex Möller , resigned and his post was given to Schiller , who also remained as Economics Minister . |
| 12 | While a student at Edinburgh , Marion Newbigin had come under the influence of J. Arthur Thompson , whom she later succeeded as lecturer in biology and zoology at the School of Medicine for Women . |
| 13 | They rarely performed as individuals ; from now on they were to remain in line , arms linked behind each other . |
| 14 | But to her they merely served as spurs and she was used to those . |
| 15 | The slits in the sides of their throats which had originated as filtering mechanisms , were walled with thin blood vessels so that they also served as gills . |
| 16 | Charles Williams had been a friend of T. S. Eliot , but Lewis 's distrust of Eliot had been implacable , and their first meeting in 1945 , at Williams 's instigation , had been no better than guarded , though they later joined as Anglicans in retranslating the Book of Common Prayer version of the Psalter . |
| 17 | Helen Jones of Paul 's Lane , Southport , said she had met Kirk three years earlier when they both worked as care assistants at the Godfrey Ermine Home for the Blind . |
| 18 | The Independent Companies were intended to be a ship-based force slipping ashore to harass German communications and cut the supply line of Swedish ore , but they often fought as infantry because the Allies had no other troops available ; an unavoidable reason for deploying special forces in this role in Norway . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd better break the engagement now , ’ I said , thinking my mother very foolish for not realising that what appealed to Syl was my very paleness , my silence , my hostility , which he mostly construed as shyness , until I was unpleasant , and when I was unpleasant he took it as evidence of some depth in my feeling for him and found it sexually alluring . |
| 20 | He has already allowed friends to put it around that he only stayed as Chancellor after Black Wednesday because Mr Major begged him to . |
| 21 | Mr Richter was so smitten by Mr Cliburn 's talent , and so bored by the competition ( 1958 was the last time he ever served as judge for anything ) , that he decided to give the talented American pianist the top score of 25 for everything and all the other contestants a zero for everything . |
| 22 | Interest in local politics led him to become a member of Liverpool town council and Lancashire county council ; he also served as chairman of Liverpool chamber of commerce . |
| 23 | He also served as deputy lieutenant for the county of Essex . |
| 24 | He also served as Secretary of WACC 's African Regional Association for some years . |
| 25 | He also served as president of the Geological Society ( 1912–14 ) ; president , section C ( geology ) of the British Association ( 1904 ) ; and vice-president , International Geological Congress ( 1913 ) . |
| 26 | His departure was thought to improve the ruling Social Credit Party 's prospects ( from which he also resigned as leader ) , with an election due in 1991 , of withstanding the challenge of Canada 's increasingly successful social democratic New Democratic Party ( NDP — for its September 1990 provincial election victory in Ontario see p. 37705 ) . |
| 27 | Scotland , which he also claimed as part of his sphere of primatial authority , was cut off by the barrier of the province of York . |
| 28 | He also acted as auditor for a number of major international joint ventures . |
| 29 | He later served as deputy governor and then as governor of the Bank of Finland but was obliged to resign in 1983 [ see p. 32218 ] . |
| 30 | He retained an affection for Paris and a gratitude for the intellectual advantages that it had given him to which he later referred as pope . |