Example sentences of "had [verb] [verb] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Brown , for example , was born in Northamptonshire in 1855 and had to go to work as a boy when his father , an agricultural labourer earning 12s. a week , was taken ill . |
| 2 | But whereas before he had seen Scouting as a gateway of opportunity to the big time , 20 years on , the movement seemed narrow and provincial somehow , more concerned with preserving an America that was fast slipping away , if it had ever truly existed , than with helping to shape the country 's youth to face an uncertain future . |
| 3 | Indeed , it is suggested that the very speed with which the population had grown acted as a disincentive to established large factories using the latest technology . |
| 4 | By the time Penry Vaughan came downstairs again she was deep in the adventures of a lady who had decided to dress as a boy to search for her lost crusading husband . |
| 5 | It is a measure of the seriousness of the arguments we put that , more than six months later , the Department still failed to issue the ruling , which it had promised to deliver as a matter of some urgency . |
| 6 | The firm had agreed to act as a supervisor under the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act for the United Maritime Fishermen Cooperative in December 1987 . |
| 7 | ( On the formation of the NAR administration in December 1986 Gordon had agreed to serve as a minister for a period of three years . ) |
| 8 | The Thatcher Cabinet had become crystallized as a system of conviction politics all on its own . |
| 9 | By an extended tour in 1780–2 he had become known as a pianist in Paris , Strasburg , Munich , and Vienna , and in 1802 he was enthusiastically received in St Petersburg . |
| 10 | The country 's political atmosphere had become embittered as a result of the creation of the DLP , in January 1990 , through a merger of the then minority governing party and two of the three main opposition groups , which gave the new formation control of more than two-thirds of the seats in the 299-member National Assembly . |
| 11 | Nor had he wished to descend to the level of bureaucracy : he had hoped to succeed as a violinist , but lack of money ( and perhaps some want of talent , to which he did not admit ) had stood in his way . |
| 12 | On odd days , a young woman who had gone to work as a governess at a remote Scottish house wrote to an employer she never saw about portraits which moved in the middle of the night and which , the governess wrote , appeared to speak monosyllabic expressions of agony . |
| 13 | And because Barlaston had ceased to function as a house in the 1930s , and had not been modernized for many years before that , it was in a remarkably unaltered state and thus an important archaeological document . |
| 14 | It had ceased to operate as a flour mill as early as 1938 and in the immediate post-war period it was used as a seed store . |
| 15 | In Laws v. Florin Place [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 659 , residents sought to establish nuisance where the defendants had commenced trading as a sex shop in a residential area . |
| 16 | First , ‘ nationality ’ , ever since the union with England , had continued to exist as a basis of collectivity in Scotland : in Scotland 's distinctive cultural patterns and traditions , distinct legal and educational systems , distinct administrative apparatus , and industrial structure . |
| 17 | It was not only that , by 1837 , the structure and contents of houses had begun to change as a result of early mass production , but that society itself had undergone a ( technically ) peaceful revolution , incidentally undermining the consensus that the middle-class house was a scaling down of the houses of the great . |
| 18 | But sixteen was a man and when he had begun to drown as a man there was nothing they could or did do to step in and help . |
| 19 | Much of what the girls had to say functioned as a display of their involvement as readers . |