Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [vb past] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would be assisted by several ‘ underground captains ’ , experienced miners who acted as foremen , while — grass captains ’ supervised surface work . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The newcomers , mostly fishermen or peasant farmers who came as boat people , have been less successful than the first wave . |
| 6 | If attempts to establish the continuity of an office of Mufti in this early period appear to break down , however , there can be no doubt either on the one hand of the existence both of muftis and of scholars who acted as muftis in individual instances or , on the other , of the importance of as an instrument of government . |
| 7 | Among the drug users who acted as controls and remained negative for HIV this selection bias would , however , also exist , and therefore the odds ratio for drug users who seroconverted to acquire bacterial pneumonia is likely to be unaffected . |
| 8 | Most householders were probably employees rather than employers , men who worked as journeymen or casual labourers . |
| 9 | Perhaps some of the cooks who fought as infantry at Maleme , Crete , could drop us a line . |
| 10 | The likelihood of influence by a husband over his wife and reliance of a wife on her husband to make business decisions justified the ‘ tenderness ’ extended by equity toward married women who acted as sureties for their husbands . |
| 11 | Finally , this firm ( C ) depended on the patronage of certain key land and estate agents who acted as brokers for clients and cases . |