Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 2 | It began as a faint glowing cloudiness that hung in the rafters of the attic , which was exactly the sort of phenomenon Cleo 's mother had described in the ghost stories she 'd told her daughter as a child . |
| 3 | Bobby Anscombe had intended his ultimatum as an exit line , but he was stopped by Michael Banks , who had worked with him in the past and knew his volatile temper . |
| 4 | Afterwards he had completed his training as a fighter pilot , performing so well that he was assigned to take an instructors ' course with the Navy at San Diego . |
| 5 | Since the age of seventeen , Margaret had regarded her body as a tradeable commodity ; she saw a fortnightly meeting between the sheets with an elderly bookmaker as an investment , a means to an end . |
| 6 | A favourite outing was to the nearby medieval castle of Pierrefonds , which the Emperor had given his wife as a present and which was being restored by the architect Viollet-le-Duc . |
| 7 | George Morales , another convicted cocaine smuggler , states that the CIA had exploited his indictment as a drug lord to extort from him planes , pilots and a $3 million cash donation to the Contras . |
| 8 | Before Dom Pérignon had made his name as a great winemaker , the effects of sparkling Champagne had achieved sufficient significance in England to merit the occasional mention , as the following verse from The Man of Mode , written by Sir George Etherege in 1676 , indicates : |
| 9 | The career of Miller had been that of a classic party functionary rising to PUWP central committee secretary and politburo member , whereas Kwasniewski , who came up through the editorship of party youth wing newspapers to become Minister of Youth and Sports from 1985 , had made his name as a pragmatist and advocate of co-operation with Solidarity in the 1989 round table talks . |
| 10 | By 15 , Barenboim had made his debut as a pianist in London , Paris and New York . |
| 11 | Subsequent financial woes — he had quit his job as a broker to work on a show for the Boone gallery — sent Koons back to Pennsylvania , where he lived with his parents for several months before heading to Florida for a political campaign job that brought him enough money to return to New York . |
| 12 | For their part , the MRP leaders had presented their movement as the " party of fidelity " ( i.e. fidelity to de Gaulle ) and had , in the end , opposed the first constitutional draft . |
| 13 | She had been a courtesan before Turakina had bought her contract as a gift for her husband . |
| 14 | But just as he had used her agoraphobia as a defence against having to know about his need to find her safely where he had left her , so too did her lack of sexual response defend him from knowing about his need to keep her under his control . |
| 15 | Alexei remembered Sidacai 's veiled insolence — the times when he had used his status as the son of a son of Daijin to thwart Burun . |
| 16 | For years , the lonely box had played its part as an essential signal post on the busy main line without anything untoward disturbing its peaceful operation . |
| 17 | During his trial much was made of the way he had abused his position as a doctor . |
| 18 | The Financial Times of Jan. 3 reported that Rabin had asserted his role as the Labour Party 's " chief playmaker " to the " evident discomfiture " of Shimon Peres . |
| 19 | She had experienced her mother as a distant figure who at times just grabbed her and moved her about , but she had not had the physical and emotional closeness that she craved and needed . |
| 20 | Since the war had interrupted his career as a merchant , Peto needed to find an alternative outlet for his many talents and interests , and when childhood friend Ervin Marton , a photographer and designer domiciled in France , introduced him to photography , he quickly realised that he had found his true artistic vocation . |
| 21 | Georg Mautner Markhof , 65 , a leading industrialist , had announced his resignation as an FPÖ vice-president on Feb. 27 . |
| 22 | I was once told that Philip Henry Thomas , while preparing himself for the Civil Service examination , had followed his period as a pupil-teacher with a post connected with the railways which were expanding rapidly in industrial South Wales in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 23 | A ministerial system , run by career bureaucrats , was the instrument of Charles III , who had served his apprenticeship as an enlightened ruler in Naples ; he did not destroy the great Councils but day-to-day business escaped them . |
| 24 | In 1913 this tendency was reinforced by the activities of James Larkin , a Liverpool born Irishman who had served his apprenticeship as an active trade unionist and full-time official with James Sexton 's National Union of Dock Labourers but who , resenting any control exercised from its Liverpool headquarters , had set up his own Irish Transport and General Workers ' Union in December 1908 . |
| 25 | Every sergeant had served his time as a constable . |
| 26 | When Kurt had finished his training as a physicist , there had been sixteen other graduates on his course . |
| 27 | The daughter Nora had left her post as an English teacher in a German school before Easter . |
| 28 | A cheerful , boozy chain-smoker , who had started his career as a film editor , Ron had a cough that seemed to rise from the soles of his shoes , and a propensity for laughing hugely at his own , often very filthy , jokes . |
| 29 | Pavlov , 53 , had started his career as a district auditor and had risen through the ranks of the Finance Ministry and the State Planning Committee ( Gosplan ) and State Pricing Committee , being appointed Minister of Finance in 1989 . |
| 30 | Finally Ayatollah Khomeini had reclaimed his mantle as the most radical of the Imams by proclaiming a fatwa against Rushdie in February 1989 , effectively condemning him to death . |