Example sentences of "she had [verb] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was the Maurice Charlotte had always known then , the Maurice she had loved as a brother and trusted as a friend . |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | She had trained as a teacher and did supply teaching for Orkney Islands Council . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Angela did n't ride , though she had done as a child . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The outdated expression , plus his look of youthful enthusiasm , reminded Cassie briefly of stories she had read as a child . |
| 13 | Their mother , pale as the highland moon that she had known as a child , slept like a ghost embroidered on smoke . |
| 14 | She had learned as a girl and given herself a week 's holiday for a thirtieth birthday present . |
| 15 | She could play the heroine 's scenes from a score of films or recite long passages from the Holy Bible that she had learned as a child . |
| 16 | The first was a Carol Pearson , of Muswell Hill , interesting to him because she had worked as a hairdresser 's improver at a shop in Eastcheap . |
| 17 | Since then , he and his mum had struggled on together in Oxford where she had worked as a secretary in the Austin plant and had met Ken , a big , happy-go-lucky but ambitious bear of a man . |
| 18 | She had worked as a secretary before , at the age of 19 years , marrying Mr. O'Brien . |
| 19 | Moira Braybrooke was one of Bernard 's most imaginative appointments since she had neither retail nor fashion trade experience ; she had worked as a secretary in Monte Carlo , had style , good looks and an exotic family background . |
| 20 | For many years she had worked as a librarian before switching to journalism , training ‘ on-the-job ’ under an American industrial and securities correspondent and as personal assistant to Dan Rather , now CBS 's news anchorman , then becoming a freelance writer . |
| 21 | At first Sophie listened with only mild interest as the other girl spoke of her involvement in veterinary work , which had begun when she had worked as a receptionist in a large practice in Shropshire , where Robert had been senior assistant . |
| 22 | It was a long time since she had been awakened by the dream — not since she had worked as a journalist with Query — but meeting Felipe de Santis had stirred it all up . |
| 23 | She had worked as a children 's nurse in Wirral hospitals for 20 years before taking a post with the local social services department , assisting young families in need . |
| 24 | Almost broke , she had worked as a telephonist at an escort agency whispering secret promises to paying clients , and as a hostess in a Soho club catering for Japanese businessmen . |
| 25 | ( 40 ) She explained that she had worked as a volunteer in the parish and had felt that in doing this she was sharing his ministry — how ask him to give it up ? |
| 26 | She was reported missing by her boyfriend , Peter Hook , 25 , who discovered her body with the help of an official from Turning Point , the drugs advisory charity for which she had worked as a counsellor for three years . |
| 27 | AN ELDERLY spinster with ‘ a heart of gold ’ was battered to death in her home by a man she had minded as a boy , a court was told yesterday . |
| 28 | It was the feeling she had had as a child when she frightened herself with a detective story . |
| 29 | For better and for worse reasons as she had divined as a girl . |
| 30 | Earlier , she had listened as a statement by Cheshires ' commanding officer Lt Col Bob Stewart told how the killer had not been traced . |