Sentence examples for acted as something from inspiring English sources

June 2005 - April 2006 Mark Petchey The former British Davis Cup player acted as something of a mentor.

Rangers defenseman Michael Del Zotto, a TriBeCa neighbor of Richards, said Richards had helped him all year mentally and acted as something of a mentor.

Lord Lawson of Blaby, the former Conservative chancellor who has acted as something of a mentor to George Osborne, was highly critical of the tax lock.

As #CancelColbert grew, Park acted as something of an online personal trainer, exhorting her followers to push the hashtag up the list of Twitter's trending topics.

He acted as something of a surrogate father to Marley during this period, even giving him a place to live on the premises.

Through his first few years in prison, Greg's fear alone acted as something of a distraction, the time eased by occasional visits from his sisters and their young children.

In April, the board's acting general counsel, Lafe Solomon, who acts as something akin to a prosecutor, issued a complaint against The Boeing Company.

It is a foot or so wide but should act as something of a warning to the City defence.

In other words, will there be a public outcry about China and food that leads the committee or Congress to act as something other than a neutral regulator?

As such, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher acts as something of a riposte to the idea that the internet has irrevocably changed the world.

That this seemed to act as something of a retreat is reflected in 'Northern Sky', the most unabashedly joyful song in his canon.