Example sentences of "as had his " in BNC.
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| 1 | George II died in October 1770 and his grandson , twenty-two years of age , became George III and he did not have the same deep concern for Hanover as had his forbears . |
| 2 | It had lost none of its splendour , as old as it was , as little as had his memory . |
| 3 | Ann and Beth had married into farming families and had the same careworn faces and workworn hands as had his wife and mother . |
| 4 | He had missed his chance with Martha , as had his brother Will with their Beth . |
| 5 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 6 | He parried the stories of wealth and of smuggling : all town talk , he said , and besides , people in Borrowdale just would not be up to the scheming and deception involved , not the people he knew in Borrowdale and he had been born there — as had his wife — born there — as had their parents |
| 7 | Frye 's shoulder had vanished into the wall , as had his leg and his hip . |
| 8 | Johnson was a proportionate man : his language and thought had balance in them , as had his own spirit . |
| 9 | Back at the clubhouse , it was just another day 's work for the club professional , the irrepressible Dai Stevenson , who has been dispensing tees and sympathy to the Portrush members for 16 years , as had his late father , the legendary P G Stevenson , from 1922 to 1977 . |