Example sentences of "[noun sg] as he [vb past] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cunliffe admitted that his knowledge of Germany was inadequate and that his figure was ‘ little more than a shot in the dark as he had been pressed to arrive at it between a Saturday and a Monday ’ . |
| 2 | According to one report , Vincent was as dismissive of academic study as he had been in Amsterdam . |
| 3 | Blackberry was as much at a loss as he had been himself . |
| 4 | Whether Ray Farningham meant to collect Ian Cameron 's low cross from the right as he did is equally puzzling , but he turned well and shot past Andy Rhodes . |
| 5 | Because he was just doing the same job as he 'd been doing under the private under the L N E R. Management were more conciliatory when nationalization came on . |
| 6 | This shows that Anselm was quite as ready to face exile for the primacy as he had been for obedience to the pope . |
| 7 | In Scotland Horne was made Assistant to the Director as he had been ‘ acting Director ’ since 1899 when Howell retired . |
| 8 | However , his appearance had been that of an eighteen-year-old , which makes nonsense for a second time of the press claims that Lord Haw-Haw was as puny in appearance as he had been in his human sympathies . |
| 9 | John Galliano was no exception and failed to receive his award in person as he had been gently taken home earlier , his face wreathed in smiles . |
| 10 | Gladly , willingly , he accepted and he again became a familiar figure at our ground as he had been all those years before . |
| 11 | Tom Poole , who had nursed his father devotedly at the end , was in low spirits , but was as instantly captivated by his visitor as he had been at their first meeting . |
| 12 | His scream echoed madly inside the tunnel as he fell was slammed against the brickwork then bounced back against the speeding train , his body pulped by the impact . |
| 13 | The photograph that Boy looked at most often and which he sometimes even left out of the box and kept on the floor beside his bed as he slept was one that looked like a photograph of Boy himself . |
| 14 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 15 | And a nasty place it was : jammed with junk Victorian furnishings and attitudes , squirearchical , male , fascistic ( Waugh was as keen on the Croatian Ustashe as he had been on Franco ) , anti-Jewish , bitter against the ‘ common man ’ , devoted to cranky equations between social hierarchy and linguistic purity . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Wilson , his enemies suggested , had been as reckless with money as he had been in organising strikes which brought no advantage to his members . |
| 18 | ‘ Dare Say certainly deserved this change of luck as he 'd been second in three of his four races so far this term . ’ |
| 19 | Burn 's nephew , MacVicar Anderson , ensured that Burn was as secretive about his methods of house planning in death as he had been in life . |
| 20 | Paul climbed the stairs in trepidation ; had he made some mistake in the corrections , blind with pain as he had been for part of the day ? |
| 21 | Archbishop Aethelberht is said not to have spared evil kings , and there must be a possibility that he was soon as disenchanted with Aethelred 's faction as he had been with Alhred 's . |