Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [noun sg] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the early eighteenth century the West Indian islands had established their position as the overseas area that meant most to Britain , and had become completely dependent on sugar and on slaves to grow the sugar . |