Example sentences of "he had [verb] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such novels may not greatly dignify the world they describe , or even get it right ; but their fascination with the inner workings of an administrative system are ultimately reverent , and Snow himself was to end his career in London and not in Cambridge , where he had begun as a scientist : a peer and , briefly , a government minister . |
| 2 | Mozart worked with the commonplace musical fabric of his time , the prescribed structures , instrumental combinations , harmonic progressions and melodic formulae that he had absorbed as a child , and from which a Salieri and hundreds like him fashioned polite , two-dimensional drawing-room music suitable for the delectation or titillation of many a jaded aristocratic ear . |
| 3 | Ted , fortunately , was fluent in ( Belgian ) French because he had flown as a pilot for Sabena for many years and was , I believe , highly thought of by our French colleagues . |
| 4 | He signed for Celtic , the team he had supported as a youth , for £725,000 . |
| 5 | A warrant for Whitehead 's arrest was issued in Canada in 1985 , alleging that he had operated as a falcon dealer and smuggler for ten years . |
| 6 | that he had made as a boy : |
| 7 | Until his family was safe , he had declined to make any formal statement , but now he went with them to the American Embassy and swore out an affidavit about what he had seen as a DIA agent assigned to DEA NARCOG , Nicosia . |
| 8 | He drove past the parks and gardens where he had played as a child ; past the houses of some of his past mistresses ; past the apartment where Clara Delluc lived . |
| 9 | There are other images , too : he mentions the " ailanthus " , one of which stood in the yard of the Mary Institute where he had once played , and the " briar rose " by his father 's house in Gloucester ; in addition , he employs words like " rote " or " groaner " which he had heard as a child in New England . |
| 10 | The poem takes its title from a ledge of rock off Cape Ann which acted as a seamark when Eliot , as a boy , used to sail out of Gloucester Harbour , and its first lines evoke the presence of the Mississippi which he had felt as a child in St Louis . |
| 11 | The verses of Practical Cats revert to the " thumping " rhythms which he had assimilated as a child , and perhaps they owe something of their inspiration , also , to the memory of Eliot 's father who drew cats for recreation . |
| 12 | The story of the abuse he had suffered as a child emerged in interviews with social workers . |
| 13 | The latest medical theories suggest that Mozart 's last illness had its roots in the various serious infections he had suffered as a child : on the early trip to Paris and London he had contracted rheumatic fever , tonsillitis. and typhoid fever ; in 1167 he had caught smallpox ; and in Italy he seems to have had bronchitis and yellow jaundice . |
| 14 | Aware that Madcap Agnew 's name was scarcely mentioned in the Hall , that the Lodge had been for many years a forbidden place , and that her father 's heart still quailed to reflect on the terrors he had suffered as a child , Louisa had not dared to let her reflections on this unhappy history reach far enough . |
| 15 | Indeed , the paralysis he had suffered as a result of her suicide had given way to an energetic creative vitality since he and I had been together . |
| 16 | When one of the men he had employed as a ploughman in the autumn came to the farm , more in hope than the expectation of finding any work , Seb was able to offer him a day 's pay . |
| 17 | Though he had served as a diplomat in both London and Vienna he owed little to the ideas of the Enlightenment : his favourite author was Molière , not any eighteenth-century writer , and under him the works of Voltaire and Montesquieu , as well as Hobbes , Locke and Spinoza , were banned . |
| 18 | Years later he found a diary he had kept as a schoolboy in 1940 , two years before I became really aware of him , and he gave it to me . |
| 19 | He might be a fat , wealthy merchant now but fifteen years ago he had fought as a knight , shoulder to shoulder with men who feared nothing on earth . |
| 20 | It was a habit he had had as a child . |
| 21 | He was wearing winceyette pyjamas like those he had had as a child . |
| 22 | He had died as a result of being labelled a ‘ capitalist roader ’ and ‘ revisionist ’ , although he was later posthumously rehabilitated and praised by the Party . |
| 23 | However , the results of an autopsy carried out by an Israeli and a US pathologist on Feb. 7 indicated that whilst Akawi had been beaten he had died as a result of a " cardiac insufficiency " brought on by a serious heart condition . |
| 24 | The prisoner had broken his fast on Oct. 12 and there was no evidence that he had died as a result of the strike . |
| 25 | In 1991 he had resigned as a member of the FLN 's central committee in order to stand as an independent candidate in the abortive general election of December 1991 . |
| 26 | But Mr Thomas emphatically denied this to The People , stressing that he had resigned as a trustee two years ago . |
| 27 | Staring down at the girl , Pascoe saw in her the Martha he had known as a lad — the Martha he had loved and lost ; and while he stared , she opened her eyes and looked back up at him from the stinking bed of straw , and for a moment he felt a little stirring of fear . |
| 28 | He had come as a student of farming to this dairy , thinking he would be here only a short time . |
| 29 | He had worked as a farmer and it was feared his long term exposure to pesticides may have led to his ill health . |
| 30 | Chief executive Mr Richard Sutherland said the partners at the practice did not know he had worked as a locum at Bolton Royal Infirmary and the doctor had not told the infirmary he was HIV positive . |