Example sentences of "[pron] as [pers pn] [vb past] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the exiled soldier wanted more than a place to stay : he wanted , to a Peter Pan-ish degree , everything as it had been in his childhood home . |
| 2 | Ken was n't as happy with this one as he had been with its predecessor . |
| 3 | A picture of her as she had been in life came up on the screen . |
| 4 | She hoped so , hoped he was being as scathing with him as he 'd been with herself . |
| 5 | In her own way , she had been every bit as insulting to him as he 'd been to her . |
| 6 | On the last Monaghan Day that McQuaid came to the house Moran was on edge as he waited for him as he had been on edge every Monaghan Day , the only day in the year that McQuaid came to Great Meadow . |
| 7 | He was taken over by it as he had been by the piety which had moved him so completely in St Kentigern 's . |