Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these events became regarded as a norm for science then public confidence would be threatened . |
| 2 | Dysentery became regarded as a norm of life at Verdun . |
| 3 | Fawcett soon became regarded as a dasher , but a dodgy proposition on defence . |
| 4 | In 1891 came the publication of African Aphorisms , or Saws from Swahililand , an annotated collection of some 600 proverbs ; the work ( reissued in 1924 ) provided an outlet for his immense erudition , and became recognized as a classic in the domain of Swahili studies . |
| 5 | Dana had embraced the dancing and singing lessons with fervour , but Claudia , trailing behind her sister , had been bored to tears by them , and after a time her father had put an end to what he 'd seen as a waste of his money and Claudia 's time . |
| 6 | Oh and we 'd love to do swimming , erm , because we 'd done as a surprise for Carla for Christmas cos I mean we said the kids are getting older now , Dave heard it on the radio , erm , for one fifty a head , erm they were opening Guildford 's swimming pool erm , from ten till twe twelve ? |
| 7 | But they offered a very tempting fee simply to transport an art object , a sculpture , which they 'd bought as a centrepiece for a planetary arts festival they were staging . |
| 8 | His mother had shown him lots of things , photographs and even odds and ends she 'd had as a child , but she 'd never shown him her wedding-dress . |
| 9 | The ring I 'd grasped as a baby |
| 10 | My mother was visiting someone who worked there whom she 'd known as a child . |
| 11 | Sometimes she 'd found it difficult to believe a word he said , but he had been there to meet her when she 'd arrived as a stranger . |
| 12 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
| 13 | Since school , which was n't long ago , he 'd worked as a butcher , ‘ squeezed a heart in a sink and got blood all over - sickened me ’ , and latterly as a — guess it — hairdresser . |
| 14 | She 'd worked as a prostitute long enough to know she 'd survive , but she did n't fancy six cocks one after the other without respite . |
| 15 | For the truth was that she 'd been offered promotion a dozen times — in spite of the fact that when she 'd started as a trainee she 'd had no formal training , no experience , nothing to commend her but a fistful of ambition . |
| 16 | ‘ It was a photograph of Mark and I heard how he 'd qualified as a chiropractor and set up in Falmouth where it 's uphill work . |
| 17 | Rumours have circulated Manchester for some time over Sharpe 's future and they intensified after he was sent home from pre-season training with what United described as a virus . |
| 18 | JC seh has a long history , almost certainly originating from a verb ( which later became reanalysed as a complementiser corresponding to " that " ) in one of the West African languages of the Kwa group . |
| 19 | After the expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal in 1759 , the building became used as a barracks , and British troops were stationed here during the occupation of the island . |
| 20 | The water , containing zinc , arsenic , mercury , copper , nickel and cadmium , poured from the Wheal Jane mine after it became flooded as a result of the ending of pumping operations earlier in the year . |
| 21 | P. A. I got called as a witness in a motoring case , and it came up when I was on nights and I had to get up and call in the solicitor . |
| 22 | He began at left-back , but it was on the right that he really excelled and became recognised as a quality player by friend and foe alike . |
| 23 | The myth developing around Johnson took on an existence of its own and he became known as a hero of black folklore , fitting into that tradition of ‘ bad niggers ’ , moral hard men who were , according to Lawrence Levine , ‘ admired because they had the strength , courage and ability to flout the limitations imposed by white society ’ ( 1977 , p.420 ) . |
| 24 | Becoming angry in the face of this reception , the Germans started what subsequently became known as a rastrellamento , which literally means a raking — a detailed search of the area . |
| 25 | Waiting for him are the entertainments manager , played by veteran British character actor Sydney Tafler , and another stand-up act , in the guise of Christopher Timothy , who later became known as a star of All Creatures Great and Small . |
| 26 | It was eventually terraced and became known as a sort of Methodist ‘ cathedral ’ . |
| 27 | The wildman of Guns N' Roses watched horrified as a herd of elephants charged towards his friends . |
| 28 | After several minor scraps with authority , he got involved as a Second in a duel between his superior officer , Colonel Paterson , and a friend , Captain MacArthur . |
| 29 | In the course of time , the Coleman prize became awarded as a result of examinations posing pathological and practical subjects relating to the foot of the horse , the principles and practice of shoeing , the diseases of the horse 's eye , and the disease known as glanders . |
| 30 | ‘ I supported United as a boy , even though I lived in Ipswich . |