Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 31 | Though he had served as a diplomat in both London and Vienna he owed little to the ideas of the Enlightenment : his favourite author was Molière , not any eighteenth-century writer , and under him the works of Voltaire and Montesquieu , as well as Hobbes , Locke and Spinoza , were banned . |
| 32 | Although he had served as Reagan 's chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission since 1982 , Thomas was a critic of the quota system for employing racial minorities and was seen as an opponent of affirmative action . |
| 33 | Before that he had served as Minister of External Economic Relations and Supply and had been a member of the MPRP central committee since 1976 . |
| 34 | The third-ranking member of the CPV politburo , he had served as acting Premier for a few months in 1988 following the death of Pham Hung , but had then been dislodged from the post by the more conservative Do Muoi . |
| 35 | Prior to his dismissal he had been widely regarded as Manley 's heir-apparent , and he had served as acting Prime Minister for several periods during Manley 's illness in 1990 . |
| 36 | In Bangkok , where he had served as governor , Chamlong was deeply respected because of what the Financial Times of May 8 described as " his uncompromising piety and idealism " . |
| 37 | About half way along its length , he located the barred skylight window he had noted as a possible means of entry , during his recce of the house the day of the interview with Jim Miller . |
| 38 | His bland and unassertive personal style compared unfavourably with that of David Lange whom he had replaced as party leader and Prime Minister in August 1989 [ see pp. 36852-53 ] . |
| 39 | Norbert was sent back into the real world , but within weeks he had registered as a disabled person and returned to the hospital . |
| 40 | He was to replace Yildirim Akbulut , whom he had ousted as chairman of the ruling Motherland Party ( ANAP ) two days earlier . |
| 41 | I waited , but he had stopped as if he thought he had said it all . |
| 42 | Eventually he was referred to a consultant who took a careful case-history and wondered if there might be some connection between the heavy doses of antibiotics he had received as a young man and the continuing diarrhoea . |
| 43 | His basic salary as Naval Officer was only $800 a year which was not high for the importance of his position but compared favourably with the $180 a year he had received as an army Captain 3 years earlier . |
| 44 | After a tense week in which five civilians were killed in Brazzaville by mutinous troops , transitional Prime Minister André Milongo in late January acceded to army pressure to dismiss Col. Michel Gangouo , whom he had appointed as Secretary of State for Defence on Jan. 2 . |
| 45 | Lowe blamed the newspapers and television for transforming the storm clouds of revolution he had sensed as an undergraduate at Sussex University into this thin drizzle of social democracy . |
| 46 | Was this where he had trained as a young man ? |
| 47 | Years later he found a diary he had kept as a schoolboy in 1940 , two years before I became really aware of him , and he gave it to me . |
| 48 | Eight months before he had fought as an independent against an official Conservative at a bye-election in the Abbey division of Westminster . |
| 49 | He might be a fat , wealthy merchant now but fifteen years ago he had fought as a knight , shoulder to shoulder with men who feared nothing on earth . |
| 50 | Since Hitler 's accession to the German chancellorship in January 1933 , Stalin had concluded that international fascism , which hitherto he had interpreted as the herald of capitalist collapse , posed a threat after all , not only to the left within European countries but also to the survival of the Soviet Union itself . |
| 51 | In his province , Huy remembered , Surere had tried to impose what he had interpreted as the supporting columns of a decent society : sexual responsibility and even monogamy were held to be the roots of a stable family ; sexual relations between members of that family were restricted to cousins . |
| 52 | It was a habit he had had as a child . |
| 53 | He was wearing winceyette pyjamas like those he had had as a child . |
| 54 | With those who reached him emotionally he recreated the rejections he had experienced as a young child . |
| 55 | They were also at the stage when they still found funny voices funny , and Charles had his best audience in years for his Welsh , developed for Under Milk Wood ( ‘ A production which demonstrated everything the theatre can offer , except talent ’ — Nottingham Evening Post ) , his Cornish , as used in Love 's Labour 's Lost ( ‘ Charles Paris 's Costard was about as funny as an obituary notice ’ — New Statesman ) and the voice he had used as a Chinese Broker 's Man in Aladdin ( ‘ My watch said that the show only lasted two and a half hours , so I 've taken it to be repaired ’ — Glasgow Herald ) . |
| 56 | The last time I had seen Peter , in Biarritz , he had been accompanied by a tall , fair-haired girl whom he had introduced as his fiancée . |
| 57 | He had died as a result of being labelled a ‘ capitalist roader ’ and ‘ revisionist ’ , although he was later posthumously rehabilitated and praised by the Party . |
| 58 | However , the results of an autopsy carried out by an Israeli and a US pathologist on Feb. 7 indicated that whilst Akawi had been beaten he had died as a result of a " cardiac insufficiency " brought on by a serious heart condition . |
| 59 | The prisoner had broken his fast on Oct. 12 and there was no evidence that he had died as a result of the strike . |
| 60 | He failed to show up for the match amidst rumours that he had resigned as West Ham 's manager . |