Example sentences of "as he [vb past] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His arthritis made it impossible for him to walk as he had been used to doing . |
| 2 | Geoffrey 's appointment was appropriate , as he had been assistant to the marshal in the Welsh war of 1282 . |
| 3 | He had returned earlier in the day and Maeve was as ecstatic to see him as he had been hungry for her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |