Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student . |
| 2 | It rekindles memories of those old-fashioned Hollywood romances of the Thirties and Forties that I had seen as a child . |
| 3 | That was important , but much more important for me was the message that crofting , which I had seen as a hang-over , an anachronism , had enduring values I had not previously recognised . |
| 4 | Recently I sold a number of ‘ profit share ’ shares and found myself left with six shares which I had received as a dividend . |
| 5 | I felt the strangeness then , and the wonder , not unmixed with revivals of half-forgotten fears , but transfigured and enhanced by a mature understanding , which I had lacked as a child in Africa , of what the whole performance was for . |
| 6 | Later , after I had qualified as a teacher and got married , I began to study at the university , teaching at a school during the day . |
| 7 | As an adult in Panama I have stepped aside and contemplated the New World equivalent of the driver ants that I had feared as a child in Africa , flowing by me like a crackling river , and I can testify to the strangeness and wonder . |
| 8 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |
| 9 | The blue-rinsed grandmother from Iowa — ‘ just passing through Lunnun to catch a few shows ’ ( like anglers collect trout ) — I had drawn as a dancing partner clapped louder than anybody . |
| 10 | I knew that informed public opinion might be shifting , but also that the school to which I hoped to return as head would not yet be very different from the one which I had left as a history teacher . |
| 11 | I told her of the storms I had known as a child in America , of the sea lifting the paving stones in Penzance , of the ice storms in New England where each twig , each leaf is coated in ice , and of how , when the sun shines , it is as though the world were crystallised , as though nature were encapsulated in a diamond . |
| 12 | The area deserved a better treatment : I had not done justice to a part of northern England where I had wandered as a youngster and often visited later , developing an affection that has persisted into old age . |
| 13 | Ironically for a quarrel which had arisen as a result of a revolt against the colonial taxation imposed to increase the revenue and retrench some of the expenditure on the Seven Years War , the American war doubled national expenditure from £131 million in 1775 to £245 million by 1783 . |
| 14 | The judge also ordered that Lake Resources Inc. , the largely defunct Hakim corporation which had operated as a conduit for Iran-contra funds , should be placed on probation prior to its dissolution . |
| 15 | This sort of interference , which had started as a matter of special favour in special cases , gradually becomes a regular practice . |
| 16 | Lee 's most solid achievement was in late April 1991 to terminate the " Temporary Provisions " , the continuation of which had acted as a block to any major political reforms . |
| 17 | Jerry Richardson , the coach of the so-called " Mandela United Football Team " which had acted as a bodyguard to Winnie Mandela , was found guilty on May 25 of 11 charges , including the murder of a young ANC activist " Stompie " Moeketsie Seipei in Soweto in late December 1989 [ see p. 36452 ] . |
| 18 | Mandy Rice-Davies and Christine Keeler 's revelations about the seamy underbelly of England 's public life rocked the government and effectively ended the Tory Party patriarchy : ‘ The upper-class … image of Mr Macmillan himself had acted as a catalyst for all the aggression that was to unleash the New England of Mr Wilson and the Beatles . ’ |
| 19 | Her emotionally deprived life is enhanced briefly when she is read to in a churchyard on Sunday afternoons by the invalid cousin she had loved as a child . |
| 20 | He was the Maurice Charlotte had always known then , the Maurice she had loved as a brother and trusted as a friend . |
| 21 | He looked at the copper bosom covers she had to wear as a belly dancer — and then at the less than fully-endowed nature of Miss Harris 's bust and said cuttingly , ‘ Which way up are they supposed to go ? ’ |
| 22 | She had done a three-month cookery course and , as a last-ditch attempt to acquire some proper qualifications , she had enrolled as a student teacher with Betty Vacani , in Knightsbridge , who ran dancing classes for tiny tots . |
| 23 | ‘ It is a country with opportunities , ’ said Steve : and off they went again , with their second-hand opinions , their echoes of overheard conversations , their phrases from advertisements and tabloid newspapers : and yet to Shirley there was perhaps something comfortable , despite all , something reassuring about the hands of cards , the button and matchstick money , the green baize of the table , the predictable , ancient jokes , the cigarette ends in the big red ashtray : there was safety here , of a sort , safety in repetition , safety in familiar faces and frustrations , and warmth of a sort , warmth and communion of a sort , society of a sort : the society she had discovered as a teenager , when she would slip surreptitiously out of the icy silence of Abercorn Avenue , where the clock ticked relentlessly on the kitchen wall , where Liz propped her textbooks against the Peek Frean biscuit tin on the kitchen table , where her mother sat in the front room listening to the radio , cutting up newspapers ; she would let herself quietly out of the back door and creep down the passage , past the outside lav , through the back gate , round the corner , and then she would run for it , along Hilldrop Crescent , down The Grove , up Brindleford Drive , and across the main road at the lights to Victoria Street , where Cliff and Steve and their sister Marge lived . |
| 24 | She had seen this money before , of course , and still had a little collection of it that she had made as a child , yet it was disconcerting to reflect that Johnny would use it as part of his everyday life . |
| 25 | She chose to remain close to friends she had made as a teenager and moved in the pop and art worlds which the prince saw as ‘ frivolous ’ . |
| 26 | She had trained as a teacher and did supply teaching for Orkney Islands Council . |
| 27 | She had trained as a teacher , and was the daughter of a Colonel of KGB and a probationer member of the Party , it was her duty to participate in the re-education of prisoners . |
| 28 | Angela did n't ride , though she had done as a child . |
| 29 | It reminded Jane of one of the Professor Branestawm stories she had read as a child in which the characters were photographs come alive , each repeating , over and over again , the sentence he or she had been saying at the moment the photograph was taken . |
| 30 | The outdated expression , plus his look of youthful enthusiasm , reminded Cassie briefly of stories she had read as a child . |