do duty as

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Having reached Safeway with no fatalities, Stassin and I ordered our respective Loomos to trail us, so that they could do duty as shopping carts.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2018

As soon as the rebels were thoroughly cleaned out, many of the soldiers were called upon to do duty as firemen, for a large portion of the town was in flames.

From The Campaign of the Jungle or, Under Lawton through Luzon by Stratemeyer, Edward

As all the regular railway employ�s had fled with the departing Boers, it became necessary to call for volunteers from among the soldiers to do duty as drivers, stokers and guards.

From With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Lowry, Edward P.

Assistant-surgeon Crawford, having no sick in hospital, generously offered to do duty as officer of the day, and his offer was gladly accepted.

From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Doubleday, Abner

In that plight they might be seen some years ago, may still possibly be seen—empty, dusty, dreary—ranged above ground-floor premises which do duty as a parcels' conveyance office, and abutting on a mean, ill-kept yard.

From Stories of Authors, British and American by Chubb, Edwin Watts