Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] been [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't want to understand him , but heated recognition rippled through her as she stared at his mouth , as unwillingly fascinated by its sensual curve as she had been six years ago , when all her breathlessly adored heroes had suddenly become prosaic and petty with the advent of the man from Hong Kong . |
| 2 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |
| 3 | Gould , the ornithologist , was with him , and as they had been some days without anything to eat , except what they shot , they enjoyed a good breakfast . |
| 4 | From 1859 caves became exciting to geologists , as they had been forty years earlier when Buckland looked for evidence of the Deluge . |
| 5 | The hands moved away , downwards , across the hard muscle of his stomach that was as tough and flat as it had been ten years ago , when he was eighteen . |
| 6 | SHE CORRESPONDED WITH AN EXPERT ON THE CHURCH , WHO TOLD HER THAT THE CHURCH SHE HAD ‘ SEEN ’ WAS THE CHURCH AS IT HAD BEEN 400 YEARS AGO , BEFORE IT HAD BEEN REBUILT IN 1553 . |
| 7 | I enjoyed the gnocchi in a friendly watering hole along the road , however , and the Elban wine was just as good as it had been 30 years ago . |
| 8 | He was a mainstay of City government in the crisis caused by plague in 1593 , when he was in his seventies , just as he had been thirty years before , in the devastating epidemic of 1563 . |