Example sentences of "he [vb past] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well now , and just in time for tea , ’ he beamed as a second and third bomb fell sickeningly nearer . |
| 2 | Mujjaddedi had on June 21 threatened not to hand over power ( as required by the Peshawar accord ) to Rabbani , whom he branded as a Khomeini-like Islamic radical . |
| 3 | He thought always much too easily , in highly unrealistic terms , of the peoples he ruled as a mere aggregate of individuals face to face with an absolute State . |
| 4 | The prince listened intently as British Korean war veteran Sam Mercer described the battle in which he fought as a 21-year-old private with the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1951 . |
| 5 | He wrote a book which we bought , all about the discrimination he endured as a Methodist living in Ireland . |
| 6 | It aspired to the reconstitution of the socio-economic order on what he regarded as a moral basis : in short , as an industrial democracy . |
| 7 | He stayed for seven years , at first steering clear of the official trade-union structure which , as a Big Flamer , he regarded as a huge sell-out . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman then referred to housing , which he regarded as a depressing story . |
| 9 | The justification for wishing to unmask these hidden features of Marx 's work is obvious , since an awareness of the questions he failed to ask would enable us to understand more clearly what he was trying to do , and what he regarded as a satisfactory answer to his dilemmas . |
| 10 | He posed as a successful businessman and South London haulage boss , but it was believed Noye schemed the melting down and sale of the three tons of stolen gold . |
| 11 | The Intel 80860 he described as a good implementation of a poorly thought-out microprocessor architecture . |
| 12 | The recorder Nicholas Jarman jailed him for a further 3 and a half years for what he described as a terrible act with the most appalling consequences . |
| 13 | In an interview in the Middle East Economic Digest ( MEED ) of April 29 , the Secretary-General of the GCC , Abdullah Yacoub Bishara ( Kuwait ) , had stressed the GCC 's emerging alliance with Egypt and Syria which he described as a new " six-plus-two grouping " . |
| 14 | That was when they had sent for Captain Freddie , and after what he described as a long , sometimes ‘ vair ackermonious diskussion ’ , and after a good deal of long distance telephoning , fax instructions had finally come through that allowed the Chileans to accept his decision as to what was required . |
| 15 | However , few would argue that this has a determining influence on the size of the public sector or that such a diversity of actors can he described as a single ‘ elite ’ Rather , authors such as the US Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental relations and Rose and Peters in Britain tend to stress the plurality of causes of growth in public expenditure . |
| 16 | Mr Sedgemore was later allowed into the hotel to put the protesters ' case to Mr Maxwell , and the MP said afterwards that the millionaire publisher — who he described as a distinguished socialist — had insisted that he would under no circumstances take back his former employees . |
| 17 | This technique not only combated the problem of contrast , which autochrome plates did not handle very well , but it also created what he described as a wonderful three dimensional effect when projected . |
| 18 | This technique not only combated the problem of contrast , which autochrome plates did not handle very well , but it also created what he described as a wonderful three dimensional effect when projected . |
| 19 | Erskine therefore forwarded what he described as a local suggestion that Japanese troops ‘ experienced in warfare in this kind of terrain' might be used . |
| 20 | I understand the feeling within his party that has given rise to some of the security recommendations which he conferred on my hon. Friend the Minister of State last week , and which he described as a root-and-branch policy . |
| 21 | A special visitor to the seminar will be Mr. R.A. Gailey , Director of the Ulster Transport Museum who will read a paper on ‘ The Rise and Fall of the Railways ’ and will include a slide show of the well known interpretive exhibition of Irish Railway Development currently running at the Museum which includes Dargan 's own saloon coach which he used as a mobile drawing office . |
| 22 | That — ’ He stopped as a sudden little laugh escaped her . |
| 23 | He trained as a military surveyor , spending several years in Cork , but along with most other draftsmen was placed on half pay when the Corps disbanded in 1817 . |
| 24 | He behaved as a benevolent autocrat , but was reluctant to delegate , suspicious , and secretive . |
| 25 | A career that began at Stoke City in 1930 , he played as a professional for more than 30 years . |
| 26 | Ika , however , had a brilliant command of English , to which he was to add proficiency in several other languages during the years when he practised as a noted paediatrician in Paris . |
| 27 | The problem he says is only that Mr Tijani turned out to be so ill , otherwise he came as a legitimate private patient . |
| 28 | He studied as a young man in Paris , where he became a canon of the Augustinian house of St Victor . |
| 29 | That , Mr Seymour told the inquiry , he rejected as a general rule because it would have placed ‘ unreasonable restrictions ’ on the railway . |
| 30 | Very big fat cheque , ’ he added as a wry afterthought . |