Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] as [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , the protest had nothing to do with the South Africans who were as warmly received as they had been in Jamaica and Trinidad , greeted and feted by the government and watched by Prime Ministers Erskine Sandiford of Barbados and P.J. Patterson of Jamaica who came specially for the historic occasion , the first Test ever played between teams previously kept apart by the ideology of racial superiority . |
| 2 | Hope smiled to himself : the smile broadened , and to disguise his true feelings he turned the smile on Mr Crump ; who was greatly encouraged as he had been talking about the slave trade on which much of his father 's great founding fortune had been based . |
| 3 | The jousting could not be started and the close combat was soon abandoned as it had become farcical , contestants falling down when they tried to wield their weapons . |
| 4 | Jenna poured herself some coffee and sat opposite , deciding to face things through and not run as she had intended . |
| 5 | After a few years , the conclusion was reached that the experiment had not worked as it had been expected to , and cuts in educational spending soon brought it to an end . |
| 6 | But the treatment of the rest of the face is more complex , subtler and more empirical ; it is no longer divided into a few clearly defined sections , and eyes and mouth are not so precisely stylized and deliberately emphasized as they had been before . |
| 7 | I was really deeply moved as I had only seen such a thing before in religious pictures . |
| 8 | Unionists of the time would scarcely have recognized the terms of the debate , for in 1922 the party was still embroiled with Ireland and the House of Lords , held a smaller share of the popular vote than ever before , and was still split as it had been since 1902 ; few Unionists would have seen the war as a turning-point for the better in the party fortunes . |
| 9 | She was n't smartly dressed as he had imagined : a slack grey coat reached halfway down her calves , her hat was in plain brown felt and from under it her hair hung loose . |
| 10 | But Spain would never again be as politically and economically isolated as it had been between 1945 and 1950 . |
| 11 | They had both turned as she had entered , and she had the stupid urge to tell them to carry on , she hoped she was n't interrupting anything . |
| 12 | The ground staff at Edinburgh were very helpful , and when we finally boarded ( in really raw and biting cold and -2 degrees centigrade ) thanked me for having my luggage so clearly labelled as it had helped them get it to the hold doors for immediate removal at Brussels . |
| 13 | It seemed like an excellent opportunity to put himself to the test , see if his reflexes were as finely honed as they had been in the old days . |
| 14 | One thing he did was to reassure them that planning was not as far advanced as they had feared . |
| 15 | Opinion in both these movements , however , was as strongly divided as it had been among the trade union movement and the Independent Labour Party twenty years before . |
| 16 | After losing seven goals in two games , Thistle were as resolutely organised as they had previously been chaotically lax . |