Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ring I 'd grasped as a baby |
| 2 | I came to motor sport after I 'd qualified as an architect and gained a business degree , ’ he told her curtly . |
| 3 | I had n't been any great shakes at boxing , but I 'd thought as a young man that I might be . |
| 4 | He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student . |
| 5 | That was important , but much more important for me was the message that crofting , which I had seen as a hang-over , an anachronism , had enduring values I had not previously recognised . |
| 6 | It rekindles memories of those old-fashioned Hollywood romances of the Thirties and Forties that I had seen as a child . |
| 7 | Recently I sold a number of ‘ profit share ’ shares and found myself left with six shares which I had received as a dividend . |
| 8 | I had to see as the wagons in the coals as it shifting , not falling off you see . |
| 9 | But during the weekends I did my best to claim her attention , following her about from room to room as I had done as a small child , and chattering endlessly about life , literature and the events of the previous school-term . |
| 10 | I felt the strangeness then , and the wonder , not unmixed with revivals of half-forgotten fears , but transfigured and enhanced by a mature understanding , which I had lacked as a child in Africa , of what the whole performance was for . |
| 11 | Later , after I had qualified as a teacher and got married , I began to study at the university , teaching at a school during the day . |
| 12 | As an adult in Panama I have stepped aside and contemplated the New World equivalent of the driver ants that I had feared as a child in Africa , flowing by me like a crackling river , and I can testify to the strangeness and wonder . |
| 13 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |
| 14 | The blue-rinsed grandmother from Iowa — ‘ just passing through Lunnun to catch a few shows ’ ( like anglers collect trout ) — I had drawn as a dancing partner clapped louder than anybody . |
| 15 | ‘ I had worked as an Assistant Secretary ( senior manager ) full time for three years in a very heavy job and I was beginning to feel I was permanently breathless . |
| 16 | I had worked as an assistant in Mothercare for quite a few years , so I took out a discount card with them when I was pregnant and I bought everything there at 20 per cent discount . |
| 17 | I knew that informed public opinion might be shifting , but also that the school to which I hoped to return as head would not yet be very different from the one which I had left as a history teacher . |
| 18 | I told her of the storms I had known as a child in America , of the sea lifting the paving stones in Penzance , of the ice storms in New England where each twig , each leaf is coated in ice , and of how , when the sun shines , it is as though the world were crystallised , as though nature were encapsulated in a diamond . |
| 19 | The area deserved a better treatment : I had not done justice to a part of northern England where I had wandered as a youngster and often visited later , developing an affection that has persisted into old age . |
| 20 | ‘ Going to Wembley is what I 've wanted as a manager . |
| 21 | They tend to they tend to be a bit noisier than the others , but actually they are very constructive , and on Banbury School Governors it 's not the political appointees that erm I 've seen as a problem particularly . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've matured as a cricketer through playing against better players but I 'm still the same bloke I was three or four years ago , ’ he said . |
| 23 | However , I 've played the guitar for over 25 years , I 've worked as a professional guitar repairer for the top companies , and if you were to say , ‘ These frets are 2.1mm high , ’ it would still mean nothing to me ! |
| 24 | Since I lost my job I 've worked as a decoy for Antonescu , luring on innocent foreigners who come here to take advantage of low Hungarian prices . |
| 25 | ‘ Working with Soul II Soul is definitely to this point the most rewarding experience I 've had as an artist and as a person ’ |
| 26 | I 've found as a music teacher the best classroom situation … is where I 'm completely an onlooker ; having given them the stimulus , they 've done all the build-up , they 've done the preparation , they 've got the task . |
| 27 | The genial heavyweight said : ‘ I 've fought as an amateur for a few years . |
| 28 | Generally it falls , although I 've used as the sub-heading , I suppose the overall title of this area is perception organisation , the way that erm things become organised , how we perceive them as an organised whole . |
| 29 | That division creates authority which I have defined as the right to control resources ( money , people , materials , information , energy ) . |
| 30 | Furthermore , what I have presented as the Althusserean reply to Connolly emphasises the claim that ISAs constitute subjects , at the expense of the view that they legitimate a mode of production . |