Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't been to Heathrow as much as I 'd been to Gatwick |
| 2 | I was seated next to Professor St John Goth , as I had been on the previous night ; Dominic and Lee were opposite , and Mr and Mrs Maclean from Stirling were on my right . |
| 3 | As I had been on the medical side since he came back , this was the first time he had spoken to me , or probably seen me . |
| 4 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |
| 5 | In early 1986 , my foot finally healed and I began to train as if I was as fit as I had been before my injury . |
| 6 | I felt pleased of course , but strangely enough I did n't feel as elated as perhaps I should have done : not as elated as I had been after setting my British record in Madrid . |
| 7 | Mary Rose was a kind and simple woman , in awe of her husband , as she had been of her father , as she was of her parish priest . |
| 8 | The battered red car arrived at 7pm , Maria Yackle was dressed as she had been for her previous visit , but because it was rather cold , wore a jacket made of synthetic fur as well . |
| 9 | Although , as for this last speculation , Harriet could not help thinking that if Liza was still as distressed as she had been at home , she would have been even more likely to let her mother know , for she had never before been one to suffer in silence . |
| 10 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 11 | Sophie looked almost as surprised as she had been at Helen 's news . |
| 12 | She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick . |
| 13 | Unlike Pete he smelled nice — Sally thought it was Old Spice — and when he pressed his hips against hers she was excited by the sensations it aroused , not revolted as she had been with the Teddy Boy at the youth club dance . |
| 14 | I had a son , and my mother was delighted , as she had been with her own son . |
| 15 | The ceremony meant an unscheduled return to work for Christine as she had been off work with a broken hip , but was well on the way to recovery and set for a New Year return . |
| 16 | She would n't be as easy to vanquish as she had been outside the Feelgood Saloon . |
| 17 | At first appraisal , Great Britain was , in 1914 , undisputed mistress of the seas , as she had been since 1805 when Admiral Lord Nelson destroyed the combined Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar . |
| 18 | The potty training restarted and then after 6 months she was re-established on cows milk starting with plain yogurt ( just as she had been during weaning . ) ’ |
| 19 | A picture of her as she had been in life came up on the screen . |
| 20 | The tiles around Virginia 's bedroom fire-place , with the central motif of sailing boat and lighthouse , were designed especially by Vanessa , moved as she had been by her sister 's novel , To the Lighthouse , which memorialised their childhood summers at St Ives in Cornwall . |
| 21 | Her distress was evident to Nicandra , who felt nearly as embarrassed by Dada 's miserable driving as she had been by Aunt Tossie 's disgraceful exhibition . |
| 22 | Theda had hardly heard her , overwhelmed as she had been by the thoughtfulness of the unknown gentleman . |
| 23 | Again , she was all alone , as she had been after her father 's death , and after Spanish Fork . |
| 24 | So she would tell herself when she was sick and retching and dizzy , in a week or two , as she 'd been with Liam . |
| 25 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 26 | He 'd had this sickness all along , of course , but he 'd worsened since the assassin 's visit , and her tolerance for these traits , braced as she 'd been by her encounter with Gentle , had dropped to zero . |
| 27 | They could be expected to be as obedient to the workers as they had been to the capitalists . |
| 28 | They were unfortunate in that batting conditions for them were not as favourable as they had been for the West Indians . |
| 29 | Ipswich were as lethargic at the start of the second half as they had been for the majority of the first and on the hour , in an attempt to liven them up , Lyall brought off Milton and Goddard to introduce Palmer and Johnson . |
| 30 | They were located above the centre of the road instead of being drawn out to one side , as they had been for the trams . |