Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is typical of Richard that he accepted the task with alacrity and succeeded with such brilliance that almost overnight he became recognized as a famous warrior . |
| 2 | " All right then ? " he said , smiling again , his head a little on one side , a gesture he 'd had as a small boy . |
| 3 | The Padovani family had long been known to John Coffin since they had once run a restaurant near where he had lodged as a young detective . |
| 4 | He had emerged as a consistent and capable performer and had acquired a range of skills essential to his later success in politics . |
| 5 | It was where he spent his last years , here at Gads ' Hill Place , in the house which he had coveted as a poverty-stricken child . |
| 6 | It was not until fifty years after the great fire which had swept it all away that Eadmer wrote this description of what he had seen as a small boy of about seven . |
| 7 | He blamed political bias , but when he had stood as a Labour candidate in the 1945 elections in which the socialists swept to post-war victory , Hugo had not won his seat . |
| 8 | Too old to fight , he had served as a special constable during the war . |
| 9 | About half way along its length , he located the barred skylight window he had noted as a possible means of entry , during his recce of the house the day of the interview with Jim Miller . |
| 10 | Norbert was sent back into the real world , but within weeks he had registered as a disabled person and returned to the hospital . |
| 11 | Eventually he was referred to a consultant who took a careful case-history and wondered if there might be some connection between the heavy doses of antibiotics he had received as a young man and the continuing diarrhoea . |
| 12 | Was this where he had trained as a young man ? |
| 13 | With those who reached him emotionally he recreated the rejections he had experienced as a young child . |
| 14 | They were also at the stage when they still found funny voices funny , and Charles had his best audience in years for his Welsh , developed for Under Milk Wood ( ‘ A production which demonstrated everything the theatre can offer , except talent ’ — Nottingham Evening Post ) , his Cornish , as used in Love 's Labour 's Lost ( ‘ Charles Paris 's Costard was about as funny as an obituary notice ’ — New Statesman ) and the voice he had used as a Chinese Broker 's Man in Aladdin ( ‘ My watch said that the show only lasted two and a half hours , so I 've taken it to be repaired ’ — Glasgow Herald ) . |
| 15 | She reminded him of someone he had known as a young man . |
| 16 | Here he had slept as a young boy and until his marriage . |
| 17 | Depression audiences were given a hero who first fights in the World War and then finds it difficult to settle back into a factory job ; this innocent man is then twice sentenced to a chain-gang , the second arrest coming after a period during which he had succeeded as a respectable businessman ; the film ends with him still on the run and having now to depend on crime to keep himself alive . |
| 18 | He had left as a poor , working class boy and returned as an extremely wealthy man . |
| 19 | Even that great opponent of the industrial system of the nineteenth century Thomas Carlyle ( 1795–1881 ) failed to relate his criticisms to the Christian doctrine that he had abandoned as a young man . |