Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [noun] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil war was the spectre which haunted much of sixth-century Gaul , or so it seemed to Gregory of Tours as he wrote the preface to the fifth book of his Histories . |
| 2 | And now there is young English Crown Princess , this Marie of Edimbourg as you will know . |
| 3 | ENGLAND suffered the same fate in the second Test with Pakistan in Lahore as they did in the first , losing heavily . |
| 4 | The October sun dipped into the Atlantic , silhouetting the Paps of Jura as we shoved off into the sound toward Harry 's Island . |
| 5 | ‘ I believe when Teddy was acting the goat in this house the Princess of Wales was carrying Queen Maud of Norway as she now is . ’ |
| 6 | He stipulated that his kinsman John Herringman should have ‘ my Coppyes and partes of Coppys of Books as they stand entered in the Register Booke of the Company of Staconers … provided that he serves out his seaven years of Apprentishipp justly and truly ’ . |
| 7 | Although I say that this story could really happen , I doubt that there would be the character of Simon in reality as I think that a boy his age would realise the dangerous situation he was in , and join the other boys . |
| 8 | Llanelli scrum-half Rupert Moon sets the Scarlets in motion as they savage Pooler 27–3 at Pontypool Park to claim a place in the Schweppes Cup semi-finals and record their second win over Pontypool within a week . |
| 9 | Even then you should have caught a glimpse of Nigel in orbit as he roared to victory in the British Grand Prix … |
| 10 | Perhaps he had someone other than John Barnes in mind as he paraded outside the ground , but the prophecy held true enough as Liverpool 's Chosen One produced his own version of the Second Coming . |
| 11 | Canadian hooker Karl Svoboda has flankers Gord Mackinnon and Al Charron in support as he cuts a swathe through the Eagles defence . |
| 12 | The fields shone a new green in the sun , and the air which for days had been hazy had been cleaned by the rain so that I could make out the shapes of sheep grazing near the old Coal Road above Cowgill as I walked down the lane . |
| 13 | ‘ Hell ! ! ’ said Tom in amazement as he strode out of the room . |
| 14 | As Claud Mullins , a London magistrate , commented on the plight of separated women in 1935 : ‘ Day by day as I watch the women who come into court on summonses for arrears — probably the least attractive of all Police Court work — I sometimes wonder whether after all many of them would not have done better to put up with the ills they had , rather than to have placed their faith in court orders ’ . |
| 15 | He did this by contrasting Jesus with Socrates as he is described in Plato 's dialogues . |
| 16 | A SEX attacker who pounced on a woman early on Sunday in Troon as she walked home from a night out is still being hunted by police . |
| 17 | We had Liverpool superstar Frank Holden for company as we travelled down to the Twenty Foot river near March . |
| 18 | Mr Tadgell , 32 , rented a flat in Australia with Joanna as she progressed from a cleaner to a waitress at the casino . |
| 19 | AFTER the glamour of mid-week European Cup competition it 's back to basics for Linfield on Saturday as they travel to Castlereagh Park for a TNT Gold Cup clash with Ards . |
| 20 | ‘ What 's she staring at ? ’ said Gazzer to Bella as they both looked down from the pier gardens . |
| 21 | " Space belongs to all the people of the world and should be used for the benefit of all humankind , " said Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont as he introduced the bill . |
| 22 | Clinton , Throgmorton and the rest tried to draw Benjamin into conversation as we went up the main steps of the chateau . |
| 23 | Bishop of Gibraltar , or rather Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe as he 's called nowadays , ’ supplied the Archdeacon . |
| 24 | ALL AT SEA will be supplemented for Sunday 's Emirates Prix du Moulin de Longchamp in France as she bids to shake off her bridesmaid 's tag . |
| 25 | In Omi 's room , the door opened a crack : herself frightened , Erika peeked into the sitting-room and hushed an even more frightened Paul into silence as he whispered , ‘ What is it ? |
| 26 | LANCASHIRE looked to Neil Fairbrother for inspiration as they struggled to set a winning target in today 's Benson and Hedges Cup semi-final against Leicestershire at Grace Road . |
| 27 | ‘ How do those old devils get through seven courses ? ’ asked Milton of Pooley as they ate their grilled Dover sole . |
| 28 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |
| 29 | Darren Kelly is accused of stabbing sixteen year old David Knock to death as he jogged home from a night club in Cheltenham town centre . |
| 30 | ‘ He showed a lot of courage at Leeds on Sunday as we already had two players injured and then we had two sent off . |