Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] been [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small things , but important , the little touches that were typical of Sally and which made it possible to feel charity — and love — for her when she was fussy or critical or just plain annoying as she had been when Harriet had arrived without warning this afternoon . |
| 2 | As she 'd been when Han had died . |
| 3 | His eyes grew dark , as they had been when Caroline had first seen him from the catwalk . |
| 4 | It was strange , she thought , that her physical response to shock should be the same now as it had been after Hugo was killed , so that to her present grief was added a grief for him as keen , as new as when she had first heard that he was dead . |
| 5 | Mr Kendal inspected the cellar in 1891 and found the place exactly as it had been when Durham used it . |
| 6 | It would seem that the region of Powys in north-east Wales remained as much in the front-line of warfare with the northern Angles in the time of Eadwine as it had been when Aethelfrith defeated the men of Powys at Chester . |
| 7 | Under Edward IV the business of both Secretary and Signet increased , and after his death the office of Secretary was not suspended during the minority of Edward V , as it had been when Henry VI was a child . |