Example sentences of "have not [verb] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , it is rather surprising that McDonald , a top session man turned star performer , has not established himself as a big noise in Europe . |
| 2 | She will be pilloried for making this record , she will be told it is an ill-advised change of musical direction , foolish to do yet more cover versions when she has not established herself as a songwriter , madness to be so outspoken , dubbed Mrs Bonkers of Ireland — by people she cared little about . |
| 3 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
| 4 | They laughed , although she had not meant it as a joke . |
| 5 | Poles had experienced the crisis as a series of personal events ; they had not experienced it as a nation through institutions and organisations they saw as undeniably their own . |
| 6 | But they had n't conceived him as a duty , merely to increase the number of Imperials on the planet . |
| 7 | Mr Hunter had n't struck her as a man who would easily admit he was wrong . |
| 8 | He had n't meant it as a rebuke , but Nell flinched . |
| 9 | The other , even though it was certain that he had n't meant it as a compliment , was his ‘ Brainy as well as beautiful ! ’ comment . |
| 10 | The Government have put large sums of money into the public services for many years , but have not proclaimed it as a great virtue . |