Example sentences of "he had [adv] [vb pp] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Poorboy ! 'said Charlotte , suddenly outraged by the weariness and exasperation of this ineffectual little man , worn out by a job he had probably chosen as the most profitable within his scope , and now found to be extending him far beyond the end of his tether . |
| 2 | Suzuki admitted that he had received 10,000,000 yen from Abe which he had neither declared as a political donation nor as personal income , and Shiozaki acknowledged the receipt of 20,000,000 yen but denied that it had been a bribe . |
| 3 | Although he relished playing for Rangers , the team he had fervently supported as a youth , Fleck fell foul of the club 's increasingly strict discipline . |
| 4 | He had just qualified as a surgeon . |
| 5 | He was , in his way , as redundant as the steam engines whose numbers he had avidly collected as a boy in Swindon . |
| 6 | He wants to use the battle field , which he had previously described as a place of ‘ ungracious clamours ’ , to purge his anger and hurt . |
| 7 | With its crossed bands of stone , its high arched windows and copper cupola it reminded Dalgliesh of the brick towers he had laboriously erected as a child , brick on precarious brick , until they toppled in noisy disorder on the nursery floor . |
| 8 | It proved so effective that Wedgwood 's QC suddenly threw down the gauntlet to those he had continually derided as the ‘ united aesthetes ’ saying , ‘ If you are so sure you can save this building , buy it yourselves for £1 . ’ |
| 9 | It reminded him of a veined glass marble he had once owned as a boy . |
| 10 | Looking into her frightened eyes , he could n't help being reminded of a leveret he had once caught as a boy . |
| 11 | It turned out that the encomium had little to do with these epics , but for his generous economic support of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute , where he had once worked as a lowly attendant . |
| 12 | Though dawn was approaching , he had only loomed as a huge shadow to her . |
| 13 | Rhee had been expelled from the exiled ‘ government ’ because of his maverick qualities in 1925 and he had then functioned as an independent , although claiming still to be the authentic voice of the government . |