Example sentences of "as [pron] be [adv] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was ill and lame — and as I am now he had great difficulty in getting to the rostrum . |
| 2 | Kipling 's rooms and study are left as they were when he wrote many of his best known works . |
| 3 | The house is much as it was when he lived there . |
| 4 | Another day , another theatre , but the enthusiasm is just as strong as it was when he started as a raw Liverpudlian with his group the Pacemakers . |
| 5 | It was a home that the great prophet of Gothic designed for himself and his family , and today it is still as strange and startling as it was when he built it around 1835 . |
| 6 | His campaigning manner today is much the same as it was when he set out three weeks ago to seek his coveted mandate . |
| 7 | Were n't on the phone for as long as he is when he rung you here was he ? |
| 8 | The Warden ( Vice-Chancellor ) Duff assured them that he was now not nearly so odd as he was when he had known him at the choir school of King 's College . |
| 9 | The refugees were the same age as he was when he escaped from East Germany 37 years ago . |