Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite his disappointments he starred for the South African side which played as Springboks against the Juniors late last season . |
| 2 | James Dunn , an official in the State Department who acted as chairman of the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee , informed Brigadier-General George Lincoln of the Operations Division that it was desirable that as much of Korea as possible be occupied . |
| 3 | Diamonds on the other hand were too hard , and during the Classical and Early Medieval periods could only be mounted as natural crystals , in which guise they served as symbols of hardness and strength , but not yet as signs of conspicuous wealth . |
| 4 | Ken did n't have to put on drag in Carry On Screaming , the first of three 1966 releases , but in Carry On — Do n't Lose Your Head , he did get to wear a woman 's frilly corset which did n't go all that badly with the curled wig he wore as Citizen Camembert , the ‘ big cheese ’ of the French Revolutionary secret police . |
| 5 | Paxton made him foreman of works at Prince 's Park , Liverpool , in 1844 , and after completion he remained as superintendent . |
| 6 | J. L. Pearson avoided this arrangement at St Peter 's by confining the two-storey teaching accommodation to the perimeter of the wedge-shaped site at the rear of his church , the central ‘ spine ’ of the plan linking the blocks on the east and west site boundaries to create two largely internal courtyards which operated as children 's playgrounds ( Fig 53 ) . |
| 7 | The union discontinued its " social evenings " in 1951 , but carried on holding occasional events or tea-parties which served as reunions for increasing numbers of retired compositors . |
| 8 | FERRANTI International is planning legal action against a series of obscure European registered companies which acted as intermediaries in the ‘ phantom ’ arms contracts that have brought the UK defence contractor to the brink of collapse . |
| 9 | After pulling on her clothes , she headed downstairs for the perfunctory glass of orange-juice which served as breakfast . |
| 10 | At Ryswick in 1697 the building in which the two sides met was arranged so that the Swedish diplomat who acted as mediator had a central position , with the French representatives and those of the anti-French coalition each occupying an identical wing . |
| 11 | He had remembered having seen , that first day , some goats grazing further on down the river bank , had made some inquiries and discovered that they were taken down on to the river bed every morning by a boy who acted as herd . |
| 12 | It was probably this John de Lovetot who acted as bailiff of the escheated honour of Peverel of Nottingham from 1258 to 1260 or 1261 . |
| 13 | He would be assisted by several ‘ underground captains ’ , experienced miners who acted as foremen , while — grass captains ’ supervised surface work . |
| 14 | My thanks to Tim and Steve Wallace , Ron Mardle , our Chairman Richard Newcombe , Paul Lucas , my wife and our grandchildren who acted as sweepers up , errand boys and girl , etc. for all their work in achieving this opening in a short space of time , for the actual work of putting everything in its place I would like to thank the afore-mentioned and my daughter Bridget , also for manning the museum now that it is open . |
| 15 | Then the following one we had erm Lord and Lady they came as guests of ours . |
| 16 | Bathrooms she regarded as outhouses . |
| 17 | The last group contains letters from Sir William Hamilton , Richard Payne Knight , Sir Joseph Banks , John Nash , Piranesi , Reynolds , Benjamin West and Zoffany , and from Gavin Hamilton and Thomas Jenkins who acted as dealers to Townley . |
| 18 | Of their six sons , only three Jean ( married to Marguerite Delalande ) , Nicolas ( married to Anne Mauger ) and Louis ( married to Marie Mauger ) continued the Hotteterre line and had sons who worked as instrument makers in Paris . |
| 19 | Above : Richly robed , the Samburu tribesman who acted as guide to the party . |
| 20 | Her portfolio was allocated to Cisse Khaidama Mariam Youba Sidibe who continued as Minister of Planning and International Co-operation . |
| 21 | For example , the trade association in the nut and bolt industry actually employed individuals who posed as buyers and tried to obtain discounts on prices from sellers suspected of cheating . |
| 22 | Most of the supply industry 's generating expertise had previously been in the larger power companies and municipalities ( which had been in the forefront of developing the more advanced power stations ) , but the first power company engineer they recruited as head of generation design fell ill shortly afterwards and died . |
| 23 | In the prison at Matagalpa , prisoners spoken with there seemed proud of the responsibilities they held as teachers and trainers in the prison . |
| 24 | Since many English naturalists were also clergymen , they were only too willing to describe the species of animals and plants they studied as examples of divine craftsmanship . |
| 25 | During the Boer War he acted as chief of staff to French . |
| 26 | For twenty years he served as second-in-command to his father . |
| 27 | For thirty-four years he served as missioner and , finally , as Chaplain Superintendent with the Royal Association in Aid of the Deaf and Dumb , the London mission commonly known as RADD . |
| 28 | For 15 years he served as warehouse foreman before stepping down from that position to take responsibility of the new pre-mix plant . |
| 29 | With adults , it 's having to relearn the basic skills we learnt as children . |
| 30 | Our ship was Viking , a standard forty five foot Admiralty motor fishing vessel which served as training ship for the Stornoway Sea Cadets . |