Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , users had access to files or documents held by social services that concerned them as individuals . |
| 2 | Economic living is a splendid virtue when practised by the bourgeoisie , but the French neither liked nor respected it as a kingly attribute . |
| 3 | That this was true offered no excuse to the sick , evil , vicious minds that used it as a tool . |
| 4 | I had never really noticed before this common use of the label that identified me as a means to imply wilful ignorance . |
| 5 | As he stood there , his glittering black eyes were the only feature that identified him as a living creature , and not a darker patch of shadow in the benighted forest . |
| 6 | In recent months the presidential asset has been the subject of some distinctly unflattering news articles , including a long Vanity Fair magazine story that painted her as an autocrat angry with her husband and out of touch with her family . |
| 7 | At 11 p.m. on the night of June 18 , when Edward was sitting bog-eyed with weariness in the small metal box that served him as a cabin , Foley sought him out . |
| 8 | He concentrated on drawing cartoons and in 1932 had his first acceptance from Punch , the beginning of a partnership that established him as a major comic artist and one of the most original talents in the long history of the magazine . |
| 9 | One thing that puzzled me as a boy was Mrs. Farrer 's hair — it used to change overnight from snow white to jet black and a few days later it was white again . |
| 10 | A shop that fascinated me as a youngster was Wrides , towards the Ivy Street end of Catherine Street . |
| 11 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 12 | MRS Leona Helmsley , the hotel queen dethroned earlier this year by a New York court that convicted her as a tax cheat , was yesterday sentenced to four years ' imprisonment and fined $7 million ( £4.5 million ) . |
| 13 | I had n't asked to do it , but in fact found it very interesting and that took me as a result into trade union negotiations and finally into becoming personnel director . |
| 14 | Our notion of Indians has been conditioned by the frontier mentality that saw them as savages inhabiting the geographic void that civilisation would tame . |
| 15 | ( He still possesses the tattered paperbacks that inspired him as a trainee BP manager in the 1950s — Dale Carnegie 's How to Win Friends and Influence People and Lord Beaverbrook 's folksy handbook to success , Do n't Trust to Luck . ) |
| 16 | Yet around his neck was a chain bearing the bronze octagon that marked him as an alumnus of Unseen University , the high school of magic whose time-and-space transcendent campus is never precisely Here or There . |
| 17 | It was then that I began to discover the fate that awaited me as a female . |
| 18 | Especially in New York , few bosses would favour a merger that left them as number two . |
| 19 | I noticed his saying in a magazine interview that he could never have survived these past few years without the help of Fleet Street — and that struck me as an unusually candid confession for a politician . |
| 20 | ‘ One of the things that struck me as an outsider , coming into the firm two and a half years ago , was that there was no accountability , ’ recalls Mel Smaje . |
| 21 | ‘ There was one thing that struck me as a bit odd when I had a chance to look back on it . |
| 22 | The evening of talented entertainment was hilarious and also included shafts of criticism expressed in humour that struck me as evidence of CA 's basic good health . |
| 23 | The player , who scored last weekend on his comeback against Partick Thistle , might dwell on the advancement that has recently been made by someone like Eoin Jess , however , and reason that he would be well advised to channel all his energies towards regaining the kind of status that had him as part of Scotland 's European championship squad eight months ago . |
| 24 | In 1882 , when he went to London to become Director-General , his brother James resigned from the Survey and succeeded him as Professor . |
| 25 | He returned to politics in the mid-1920s , backed Al Smith in 1928 and succeeded him as Governor of New York . |
| 26 | She had thrown herself into his arms and hugged him as if she were still a schoolgirl . |
| 27 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 28 | Netherwood has carried out modifications to the kit and relaunched it as the Rotorway Exec 90 , currently selling for $35,000 including power plant . |
| 29 | Cecilia did not dislike Jarvis , she did not dislike anybody , but she feared and distrusted him as a bachelor with no regular job , no real income and a home which she was convinced would be sold to the property developers . |
| 30 | The initial agreement made was a licensing agreement whereby Rover ( then known as BL ) assembled the Honda Ballade from 1981 onwards with limited alterations and sold it as the Triumph Acclaim . |