Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] he [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had met him back home in the west country when he had come to supervise a show put on by one of the big ready-to-wear labels , Carnega , for whom he worked as a junior member of the design team . |
| 2 | His interest in archaeology led him into contact with Flinders Petrie , for whom he worked as an assistant from 1892 , and who gave him his first experience in excavation . |
| 3 | The breach of duty consists not of allowing the conflict of interest to arise because that is often outside the control of the director , but of the director 's preferring his own personal interests to those of persons for whom he acts as fiduciary , or of taking advantage of such a position . |
| 4 | He was an esquire of the king 's body and had links with other lords in the north west and north Wales , including the Stanleys and Anthony earl Rivers , for whom he acted as deputy of Beaumaris . |
| 5 | He was an esquire of the king 's body and had links with other lords in the north west and north Wales , including the Stanleys and Anthony earl Rivers , for whom he acted as deputy of Beaumaris . |
| 6 | Asclepiodatus can , therefore , be seen as beginning his career in the service of Guntram , for whom he acted as referendary , transferring to Childebert in 593 , and then becoming patricius of Provence under Childebert 's sons . |
| 7 | Thereafter it appears that Haycock himself rather than his father was the main architect member of the firm , although , in partnership with his brother Robert , he continued to engage in building as well as architecture until c .1845 , after which he practised as an architect only . |
| 8 | The Mayor of Bedford for the time being was always to be an additional director and at the time of the meeting the Mayor was John Wing , who had been sworn in on 29th September 1793 , and served for one year , after which he remained as one of the aldermen . |
| 9 | That was when they had sent for Captain Freddie , and after what he described as a long , sometimes ‘ vair ackermonious diskussion ’ , and after a good deal of long distance telephoning , fax instructions had finally come through that allowed the Chileans to accept his decision as to what was required . |
| 10 | On Feb. 18 after what he described as a " routine investigative hearing " a Libyan judge rejected extradition of the two men accused of the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 11 | The character of X. Trapnel , for which he served as model , in Anthony Powell 's A Dance to the Music of Time ( 12 vols. , 1951–75 ) gives an impression of the persona he created for himself . |
| 12 | Steve Kember is a Croydon lad and has always been a great favourite at his local Football League Club , for which he signed as an apprentice in 1963 and full professional in 1965 . |
| 13 | Tom Sutcliffe 's wife not only acted as his Secretary and personal interpreter , but made her own contribution to the cause for which he worked as a teacher of sign language and an outstanding interpreter particularly in the educational field . |
| 14 | He was a very much larger than life character who it is understood , although it may not be strictly true , was sacked three times by his company for which he worked as a salesman . |
| 15 | Jones reserves his highest praise for lateral thinkers — one of whom he identifies as the new Prime Minister Bob Hawke . |
| 16 | The other students stayed seated , all turned towards the newcomer , anxious to make his acquaintance , and I knew only too well that he could have any one of them he liked as his friend . |
| 17 | He had recently had a starring part and a new girl-friend , both of which he saw as part of a new start in his life , taken away by Michael Banks . |
| 18 | Bakker was convicted of swindling followers of his Praise the Lord ministry out of more than $150m ( £90m ) , some of which he used as hush money for his mistress , Jessica Hahn . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , throughout 1669 , often in concert with Sir Thomas Lee [ q.v. ] , he continued to press for further investigation of corrupt practices in government accounts , to argue for limits to the supply granted to the king and against the new assessment and excise taxes , the first of which he described as ‘ a mark of our chains ’ . |
| 20 | Truman 's work focused more explicitly upon organised groups , the increasing number and importance of which he regarded as a result of governmental growth : the ‘ trend towards all increasing diversity of groups functionally attached to the institutions of government is a reflection of the characteristics and needs , to use a somewhat ambiguous term , of a complex society ’ . |
| 21 | Writing in 1900 , the German architect and critic Hermann Muthesius identified as one of the most significant developments in European architecture the tendency of certain British architects towards what he described as a ‘ modern ’ style , which referred to no tradition , and created a new architectural language of space and mass . |
| 22 | Another important aspect of Marx 's notion of the Asiatic mode of production is that it offers an explanation of what he saw as the surprising stability of Asian states . |
| 23 | He now had reasons beyond his own inclinations to support Israel because of what he saw as the growing global challenge by the Soviet Union , most immediately felt in Vietnam . |
| 24 | Paddy Ashdown advocated a ’ Citizens ' Britain ’ of free , participating , secure individuals in place of what he saw as a ‘ Citadel Britain ’ of oppressed , stressed people and a closed political system . |
| 25 | We are , he observed , only too willing to make this sort of leap , and not only in the field of theology ( Hume was also very critical of what he saw as the pretensions of the science of his day to uncover the ‘ hidden springs ’ of things ) , but we need to be much more modest and cautious , to realise how limited the scope of our experience and knowledge is , and how liable our minds to go astray when they over-reach themselves and fish in waters too deep for their lines to plumb . |
| 26 | He had difficulty in persuading colleagues of what he saw as the benefits of the method : |
| 27 | Of the various attempts that have been made to apply Althusser 's principles , by far the most wholehearted and discerning is the work of Nicos Poulantzas , who offered both an account of the state in capitalist societies and an analysis of what he saw as one of its exceptional forms fascism . |
| 28 | What Mill feared in democracy was less the type of government it might produce than the dominance , within society , of what he saw as a monolithic body of mediocre public opinion , which would be intolerant of dissent or even mere eccentricity . |
| 29 | Jozef Pinior , a member of the party 's 10-member council elected at the meeting , said that the PPS-RD opposed the Mazowiecki government 's imposition of what he saw as a dependent capitalist system on Poland . |
| 30 | And , in describing the consequences of what he defines as literacy , he distinguishes between societies which employ the notion of ‘ logic ’ and those which do not , between societies with ‘ historical sensibility ’ and those with only myth , and between societies where ‘ scepticism ’ is present involving ‘ deliberate rejection and reinterpretation of social dogma and those limited to ‘ semi-automatic readjustment of belief . |