Example sentences of "[pron] as he [vb past] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken was n't as happy with this one as he had been with its predecessor . |
| 2 | He might just be one jump ahead of her as he had been when he stole her car space . |
| 3 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |
| 4 | She hoped so , hoped he was being as scathing with him as he 'd been with herself . |
| 5 | In her own way , she had been every bit as insulting to him as he 'd been to her . |
| 6 | On the last Monaghan Day that McQuaid came to the house Moran was on edge as he waited for him as he had been on edge every Monaghan Day , the only day in the year that McQuaid came to Great Meadow . |
| 7 | He had returned earlier in the day and Maeve was as ecstatic to see him as he had been hungry for her . |
| 8 | He was taken over by it as he had been by the piety which had moved him so completely in St Kentigern 's . |
| 9 | The school he 'd wanted me to go to so that I could be as clever as he had once been and go to Oxford the way he 'd done and not waste it as he had been foolish enough to do . |