Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |
| 2 | Muriel held the broad shoulders and was surprised at the strangeness of the proximity , just as she had been surprised at the sight of Delia 's loosened hair some weeks before . |
| 3 | As we saw was true of Durkheim , much of this analysis and terminology of Weber 's has been adopted by radical and Marxist theorists ; thus we find radicals such as Fitzgerald and Sim ( 1992 ; see Chapter 1 ) identify-ing a ‘ crisis of legitimacy ’ in the penal system . |
| 4 | For the first four years of the new school 's existence the buildings were used much as they had been prior to amalgamation , but in 1974 organisation was rationalised to provide departmental areas with teaching rooms and adjacent resource bases . |
| 5 | It was important to Trent that he held to that word ; as it had been important to him never to use the term ‘ Loyalist ’ when speaking of or reporting on the Protestant terrorists in Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | This was n't supposed to happen — but then , nothing today had happened as it had been supposed to . |
| 7 | Steel-Maitland was running Central Office like a business enterprise , not in order to make a political point , but because it was as natural to him as it had been foreign to Percival Hughes . |
| 8 | His arthritis made it impossible for him to walk as he had been used to doing . |
| 9 | Geoffrey 's appointment was appropriate , as he had been assistant to the marshal in the Welsh war of 1282 . |
| 10 | He had returned earlier in the day and Maeve was as ecstatic to see him as he had been hungry for her . |
| 11 | En route , we passed a woodman baking potatoes and chestnuts on the ashes of a fire , as Jean-Claude had done , and a huge swarm of angry , iridescent flies hovering over a dead fox , as he had been accustomed to finding close at hand . |
| 12 | As he had been delirious on arrival , the authorities , knowing that his landlady , Mrs Avery , had been responsible for getting him into hospital , simply put down her name as next-of-kin . |