Example sentences of "[adv] as he [vb past] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One year into marriage he became irritable , demanding and critical , much as he had been in earlier relationships . |
| 2 | The dean in his address expressed his pleasure in installing the new mayor , especially as he had been asked to serve as his chaplain during the mayor 's year of office . |
| 3 | ‘ Words just ca n't express how I feel about the man who did this — especially as he had been drinking . |
| 4 | ‘ Fred Proctor asked him to sit down as he had been speaking long enough . |
| 5 | Peskova took her up to the top room — the big room beneath the eaves- and locked her in as he had been told to . |
| 6 | so as he 'd been trying to get through it was always engaged . |
| 7 | It was patently obvious to Klepner , now that he had read the plan , that the European trade environment was not as he had been led to believe . |
| 8 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 9 | He kept moving all the time , on his toes with his weight perfectly balanced , just as he 'd been taught , down at the gymnasium , every Saturday and every Wednesday for the past five years , times when everyone thought he was busy doing something else . |
| 10 | Just as he had been wont to do as a boy , so this morning after waking , he had lain and thought of the day ahead and what he had to do in it , and he was aware that life had taken on a tinge of colour . |
| 11 | Sherek recalled how nervous and agitated he seemed at the first reading with the actors — just as he had been when he had first shown the play to Sherek . |
| 12 | Just as he had been rich enough to build The Towers … . |
| 13 | He was a mainstay of City government in the crisis caused by plague in 1593 , when he was in his seventies , just as he had been thirty years before , in the devastating epidemic of 1563 . |
| 14 | By getting out of the bargain books field now , he believed he might well be ‘ ahead of the game ’ , just as he had been when he set up the company . |
| 15 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 16 | To get out was a considerable achievement : to go on to etch his own personality on the world was so rare as to be wonderful : but to do it on his own terms , in his own way and to do exactly as he wanted was astounding . |
| 17 | But she could still recall , quite vividly , how it had been when she and Tom had married , just as soon as he had been able to dispense with his crutches : their brief but ecstatic honeymoon , the way he had so gently and expertly initiated her into the pleasures of sex and how , in spite of all his subsequent straying , she had remained faithful , forgiving and in love with him , in her own way , right to the end . |
| 18 | Bombs went off as he had been warned that they would . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She had taken to her marriage-bed , therefore , a certain natural innocence and all the ignorance considered essential to her station , of which Tristan had relieved her as gently and pleasantly as he had been able , his passion lacking the intensity which might , on those honeymoon nights , have alarmed her ; being , instead , a lighthearted matter , full of the nonchalant reflections of the man himself . |
| 21 | And Coleby was as hampered now as he had been in Emor by his lack of imagination : get him away from a straightforward discussion of bricks , mortar and money , and the man was lost ; give him a load of crap about the artistic temperament , and his sense of smell deserted him . |
| 22 | He was as perfect to her now as he had been when she had seen him as a child . |
| 23 | Yet not only had she not said anything but as far as he 'd been able to ascertain she had n't left him any lunch . |
| 24 | He was as shocked here as he had been by the scenes he had witnessed in London 's East End . |
| 25 | Phil Lowe was as dangerous here as he had been at Wembley . |
| 26 | The king himself had strongly favoured the Auld Alliance with France , particularly as he had been able to use it so much to his advantage , and had certainly upheld the Catholic church . |
| 27 | She took the memory of it upstairs to bed with her , but all the time that she wrote she could see him sitting there as he had been when he had first lit the lamp , his face full of an old pain . |
| 28 | Sam was n't privileged to meet them either as he 'd been set to work whitewashing the Barracks , which they never got around to inspecting . |
| 29 | To involve related professions as closely as he did was an innovation at that time . |
| 30 | Though she had dined with Red Leland that evening and had seemed as pleased to meet him again as he had been to see her , though I had frequently brought up his name since my holiday started , each time she had immediately changed the subject . |