Example sentences of "as he [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a nasty place it was : jammed with junk Victorian furnishings and attitudes , squirearchical , male , fascistic ( Waugh was as keen on the Croatian Ustashe as he had been on Franco ) , anti-Jewish , bitter against the ‘ common man ’ , devoted to cranky equations between social hierarchy and linguistic purity . |
| 2 | Phil Lowe was as dangerous here as he had been at Wembley . |
| 3 | He was just as fussy on the North Shore as he had been in France . |
| 4 | According to one report , Vincent was as dismissive of academic study as he had been in Amsterdam . |
| 5 | And Coleby was as hampered now as he had been in Emor by his lack of imagination : get him away from a straightforward discussion of bricks , mortar and money , and the man was lost ; give him a load of crap about the artistic temperament , and his sense of smell deserted him . |