Example sentences of "as a [noun sg] [pron] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a child he had been taken by his father for walks every Sunday always along the banks of the Lee . |
| 2 | As a child he had been unable to cope with the passions around him ; he had hidden himself away in books , consoling himself with golden reveries . |
| 3 | As a child it had been embarrassing and as both teachers and playmates had looked askance at the familiarity she 'd reverted to the ubiquitous ‘ Mum ’ in their presence , but woe betide her if she had lapsed into this form of address in Margaret 's presence ! |
| 4 | I explained how it was that as a child I had been told I was an eidetiker but that it had meant nothing to me . |
| 5 | Balcha was a Gurage by origin ; as a boy he had been wounded and castrated in one of the many battles which Menelik had fought while subduing the southern tribes . |
| 6 | As a boy he had been crippled by polio . |
| 7 | They had declared at his accession , they had repeated often since , that they desired him to reign upon the selfsame terms as his predecessors ; and yet they made him aware , whenever it was needful to ask for a grant of money , that in fact he stood upon ground subtly changed , and must ask as a favour what had been Richard 's unquestioned right . |
| 8 | As a result they had been driven out of the city by Richard 's agents and the cathedral was closed for twenty-one months . |
| 9 | As a result there had been very few scientific studies which would make their case harder to win , he said . |
| 10 | As a soldier he had been taught to err on the side of caution . |
| 11 | As a youth he had been a rip . |
| 12 | As a teenager he had been attracted to hear Paisley because he shared his evangelical religion . |
| 13 | As a teenager she had been frail and very light , and although now she is two stone heavier , and healthier for it , she still believes that young women should be thin , even skeletally so . |
| 14 | As a student he had been nicknamed Red Leland . |
| 15 | Although as a group they had been officially emancipated in 1871 , burakumin became the sporadic scapegoats of popular resentment , and social discrimination persisted on a wide scale in spheres such as education , employment and marriage . |
| 16 | Writing about this film thirty years later John Clellan Holmes recalled how as an adolescent he had been initiated into manhood by the momentary revelation of ‘ the soft , white trembling curve of Jean Harlow 's breast ’ , but even at the time Welford Beaton argued that it had succeeded at the box-office because more than any other picture we have had , it demonstrates that the true mission of the screen is to supply visual entertainment' . |
| 17 | Likewise , Kingsley Martin recalled in his autobiography how one coal-merchant ‘ noisily walked out of the church and slammed the door ’ in the middle of a sermon by his father , a Congregational minister , because the merchant felt that as an employer he had been attacked . |
| 18 | Frumentarii , both cavalry decurions , for instance , are known to have served at Tiffen and Feldkirchen in the mining district of Noricum , while an official bearing the title immunis consularis curas agens vico Saloduro is recorded from Solothurn near Augst ; as an immunis he had been relieved of all other military duties by the provincial governor in order to oversee the village community of the Vicus Salodurus . |