Example sentences of "as he [verb] been [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his later career he was hard-working and respected , especially by those in whose interests he was acting , but not innovative , as he had been during the heroic period of sanitary reform . |
| 2 | For a split second Joseph looked as agitated as he had been on the Jonquil the day after the murder . |
| 3 | And she thought of him relaxed , as he had been on the beach , his incredible body beside hers as they ran down to the sea , his face laughing and his hair untidy … |
| 4 | The writer was Ford Madox Ford , who was among the most loyal as he had been among the first of Pound 's friends ; in the twenties he was as penurious and as out of fashion as Pound . |
| 5 | The climb had been no trouble to Harry , bred as he had been among the crags of Snowdon . |
| 6 | He was as shocked here as he had been by the scenes he had witnessed in London 's East End . |
| 7 | He was taken over by it as he had been by the piety which had moved him so completely in St Kentigern 's . |
| 8 | He was suddenly moved by her physically , as he had been by the sight of her in the film . |
| 9 | Not a day went by but she saw Anthony 's face , and superimposed on it the face of Stavros , smirking slightly as he had been in the cemetery . |
| 10 | The man was not as tall as he had been in the photograph , he stooped too much , but he was still a few inches taller than his wife . |
| 11 | Not as much as he had been in the studio , but he was here all the same . |
| 12 | This was particularly embarrassing for Bolger as he had been in the forefront of those who had castigated former Labour Prime Minister David Lange for bowing to French economic pressure by releasing Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur , the two saboteurs who were tried and sentenced for the crime . |
| 13 | Hungarian-born pianist Gyorgy Gziffra has never been as well known , or for that matter , as well regarded in England as he has been on the Continent or in the USA . |