Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] [vb pp] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His view of Ireland , a highly romanticised one , had been initiated by his reading of Heinrich Böll 's Irisches Tagebuch which , coincidentally , I had just read as a way of getting into German again after two decades of neglect . |
| 2 | I have since worked as a staff nurse for a number of years and , with Project 2000 coming on stream , felt that the nurse education system would have improved . |
| 3 | I have mostly worked as a researcher , writer or teacher . |
| 4 | I 'm surprised that such hedonistic , empty headed opinions should find a place in what I have always regarded as a serious , intelligent newspaper . |
| 5 | She informed her great-granddaughter that if she filed for a divorce she would take Andrew 's side and say that what he had done in taking a mistress and in finally attempting suicide was because she had never acted as a wife to him . |
| 6 | In term time he spent nearly every weekend with us in London , sleeping in a small room which overlooked the garden , a room which we 'd previously used as a dressing room . |
| 7 | The whole first part provides a framework for what we have just described as a level-of-analysis problem with three layers and two dimensions . |
| 8 | The decision by Tesco and other groups campaigning to break the law to get their own way — which they have largely done as a result of the Government 's co-operation and collaboration — has made a serious dent in the turnover and profit of the stores that are already struggling . |
| 9 | Quintus stresses that he must ask those he has already helped as a lawyer to repay their obligation to him now , assure the powerful that they will not regret supporting him , and make friends where he normally would not . |
| 10 | Now , if we think along these lines then we will be sorely tempted to say that although the child does not have to observe his behaviour to be able to say , ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ , there is something else he must observe , something inner and private , a ‘ feeling ’ he has somehow identified as a liking-Auntie-Kate feeling . |
| 11 | As well as cutting client prices to $250 and server prices to $1,300 , Univel has bucked up its Personal server Edition with the Windows Merge facility it had previously listed as a $400 add-on product so it can run DOS and Windows 3.0/3.1 applications under Unix . |
| 12 | Yet there must have been a point at which it had clearly failed as a general expedient , and some may always have considered it shameful . |
| 13 | It had never occurred as a scenario in his fantasies . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had just qualified as a surgeon . |
| 17 | He was , in his way , as redundant as the steam engines whose numbers he had avidly collected as a boy in Swindon . |
| 18 | He wants to use the battle field , which he had previously described as a place of ‘ ungracious clamours ’ , to purge his anger and hurt . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It reminded him of a veined glass marble he had once owned as a boy . |
| 21 | Looking into her frightened eyes , he could n't help being reminded of a leveret he had once caught as a boy . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Though dawn was approaching , he had only loomed as a huge shadow to her . |
| 24 | and then we had an accident with our car door , who we took it up to erm , up to Carnthruft there and they did it for us and it , it , it 's just disappeared as a hole in n it ? |