Example sentences of "[noun] had been [v-ing] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |
| 2 | The detective would n't be expecting two of them and , when Dana had been appearing as a model in London , Claudia would have been in Solihull . |
| 3 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
| 4 | Eva had been working as his second for a number of years . |
| 5 | This change was marked by the arrival on 1 June of Air Commodore Hugh Pughe Lloyd , M.C. , D.F.C. , to take over as A.O.C. from A.V.M. Maynard , A.F.C. Newly-promoted from the rank of Group Captain , Lloyd had been serving as Senior Air Staff Officer with No.2 Group of Bomber Command . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Liddell had been working as a field missionary in war-torn Siaochang . |
| 7 | Third party security taken by creditors would be impeachable on account of misrepresentation or undue influence by the debtor only if the creditor had knowledge of the relevant facts or if the debtor had been acting as the agent of the creditor . |
| 8 | Some of these men had been posing as caravan holiday makers for some weeks and now settled for a long , cold night on the clifftops . |
| 9 | Mr. Goodenday , for the bank , on the other hand , submitted that , on authority , the bank would only be affected by Mr. O'Brien 's improprieties if Mr. O'Brien had been acting as the bank 's agent when committing them . |