Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't been any great shakes at boxing , but I 'd thought as a young man that I might be . |
| 2 | But during the weekends I did my best to claim her attention , following her about from room to room as I had done as a small child , and chattering endlessly about life , literature and the events of the previous school-term . |
| 3 | However , I 've played the guitar for over 25 years , I 've worked as a professional guitar repairer for the top companies , and if you were to say , ‘ These frets are 2.1mm high , ’ it would still mean nothing to me ! |
| 4 | Talking straight to the hard-core men , he said , ‘ I want to apologise as an Englishmen for the way I have lived as a white man . |
| 5 | I am proud of what I have done as a practising solicitor and I expect all other solicitors feel the same . |
| 6 | The original engine I have kept as a spare and would like to convert it to run on unleaded petrol , could you please inform me where to get drawings or information on conversion . |
| 7 | The fourth element of the constitution is one that I have described as a parliamentary government under a constitutional monarchy . |
| 8 | But surely in an economically and culturally disparate country such as Italy , which has existed as a single entity for little more than a century , a north-south break-up would be the best thing to promote accountability , reduce bureaucracy and eliminate waste . |
| 9 | The first regards the essential task of co-ordination between subjects and between levels and it was the Institute at Dar es Salaam which first developed a structure which has served as a useful model elsewhere . |
| 10 | Some of Harvard 's clients reneged on their agreements to sell when the price climbed , making ridiculous claims , like that the dog had chewed up the allotment letter , or that somebody had sold as a practical joke . |
| 11 | They were : the Zimbabwe United Movement ( ZUM , former ZANU-PF secretary-general Edgar Tekere l. ) , the main opposition party , formed in April 1989 , which incorporated the all-white Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe ; Zimbabwe African National Union ( Ndonga ) ( ZANU ( Ndonga ) , Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole l. ) which had emerged as a breakaway ZANU faction ; the nationalist United African National Council ( UANC , formerly led by Bishop Muzorewa ) ; and the National Democratic Union . |
| 12 | Under the country 's new Constitution introduced in April 1992 , a single President replaced the old Council of State which had served as a collective presidency . |
| 13 | Their history told of many wars and truces between the villagers and the " men of the trees " , and of how the monkeys would carry their dead down into those same caves which had served as a human burial-ground or , rather , burial-dump since pre-Islamic times . |
| 14 | A leading Right-On thinker , she had co-written the Beyond The Fragments book which had started as a mere pamphlet , but had attracted so much interest that it had been upgraded and sold an extremely respectable 20,000 copies in paperback , having a major effect on its earnest readership . |
| 15 | Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors . |
| 16 | There is also uncertainty surrounding the role of David Murray , the Rangers football club chairman , who has acted as a middle man in the negotiations but who has denied he has any financial interest in the takeover . |
| 17 | Of course absence from school and periods in hospital have been a disadvantage to her , but she has survived as a cheerful and courageous person . |
| 18 | When Sabine asked about France and French life , Isabelle had talked exclusively about Paris where she 'd trained as a commercial artist . |
| 19 | How , how would you have felt as a poor peasant |
| 20 | ‘ Liberator ’ was a role familiar to her : in the sixth century she had posed as a political giant-killer , putting down tyrannies in mainland Greece and even on the islands . |
| 21 | She shared the perplexity she had felt as a young officer when she first discovered that a certain number of votes were required to elect a General . |
| 22 | Celia , who had trained as a physical education instructor , now ran the Loxford parish Guides , a swimming group for the disabled , and was Peter 's Deanery Secretary . |
| 23 | Anthony Lake , 53 , a Massachusetts professor , was a former foreign service officer and State Department policy planning chief , who had served as a key foreign affairs adviser to Clinton during the presidential election campaign . |
| 24 | In England a man who had served as a royal official might end as an earl , as did Henry I 's trusted adviser Aubrey de Vere . |
| 25 | On a visit to Paris in 1792 , Losh narrowly escaped from the city during the September massacres , possibly owing his escape to the influence of Jean Paul Marat , who had practised as a veterinary surgeon in Newcastle . |
| 26 | In what other job might you call in and use a hot air balloon to appear over a city on a publicity stunt and that same afternoon sit in on a seminar which you have arranged as a scientific event ? |
| 27 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 28 | Republican conspirators had found little support ; Picornell , whom we have met as a republican conspirator in Spain , failed to engineer a rebellion , while Miranda 's expedition of 1806 was a fiasco . |
| 29 | Erm Customs and Excise and Charity Commission , they 're not just users , again they 've chosen as a strategic partner for database development . |
| 30 | The first song The Wedding Present played to the world was ‘ Will You Be Up There ? ’ which they had earmarked as a potential single . |