Example sentences of "mr [noun] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gone is Mr Morley as presiding anchorman and the device of splitting the evening between actors and singers : instead we have Simon Cadell and Patricia Hodge evoking the platonic passion of Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence and giving us generous helpings of songs and scenes from the shows . |
| 2 | The DSS argued that intention did not matter and under legal aid regulations they were entitled to treat Mr Saunders as having a notional £407,000 . |
| 3 | ‘ If it 's Mr Benedict as has upset you , mum — ’ |
| 4 | Mr Price said her statement described Mr Robson as having a swollen hand and scratches on his face . |
| 5 | This meant that despite Meehan 's pardon , the proceedings to some extent would be a retrial of Meehan as well as a trial of Waddell ; and one of its more lunatic aspects was hearing Mr King-Murray as prosecuting counsel , who for two years had strenuously refused to entertain the notion of Meehan 's innocence and Waddell 's guilt , now deploying arguments to show that very thing ( although unlike Griffith-Jones at Ward 's trial , he did not seem to have his heart in it ) ; and conversely to hear Waddell 's counsel echoing the arguments of the prosecutor at Meehan 's trial to demonstrate Meehan 's guilt and Waddell 's innocence . |
| 6 | This led the group to recall , towards the end of the meeting , how they , too , had got nowhere with work-refusing children while they constantly demanded better work from them ( thus identifying with Mr E as having known failure instead of contrasting their own better results with his , as they had done earlier ) but how they had been able to help them when they had worked on the relationship . |