Example sentences of "as [pron] had be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I soon realised that not everyone was as naive as I had been and I fell out with Kate and Alison . |
| 2 | Searching through her mind the only emotions she could recreate from that time were a dizzying pleasure that someone as sophisticated , cosmopolitan , successful and confident as Doctor Anthony Gillingham should appear to want anyone as dull and provincial as she had been and a kind of a triumph that she could present Comfort with Anthony 's declaration of love . |
| 3 | Small things , but important , the little touches that were typical of Sally and which made it possible to feel charity — and love — for her when she was fussy or critical or just plain annoying as she had been when Harriet had arrived without warning this afternoon . |
| 4 | He remembered their girl as she had been when he first had her through the system in Denver . |
| 5 | He remembered Edith as she had been when a girl . |
| 6 | The following morning , accompanied at Aunt Emily 's command by a trembling Lyddy who was sure she was going to the very mouth of Hades , Alexandra was driven out to Trelorne , dressed very much as she had been when she trespassed along the shore . |
| 7 | Faced with actually going back to the barn , she was not now so serene about it as she had been when she was lying in the field and gazing at the sky . |
| 8 | In the pain there was both forgetfulness and satisfaction , just as there had been when Maggie was born . |
| 9 | But Paul came home happy , his blue eyes brilliant as they had been when they first met ; full of his new employment , the prospect of having the second book read , the kindness of the Professor in going to visit Mr Lamprey himself . |
| 10 | He found the watchman asleep under a tree , his legs curled up under him as they had been when he had pantomimed the way he had found the body , his turban neatly parked beside him . |
| 11 | His eyes grew dark , as they had been when Caroline had first seen him from the catwalk . |
| 12 | But customers were no longer quite as wide-eyed as they had been when first faced by all this merchandise . |
| 13 | It was strange , she thought , that her physical response to shock should be the same now as it had been after Hugo was killed , so that to her present grief was added a grief for him as keen , as new as when she had first heard that he was dead . |
| 14 | It was better this way ; somehow she would manage to see Dana before Roman did , and then she would leave and take up her life as it had been before she had met Roman almost a week ago . |
| 15 | Robbie sat up , wide awake , but the dream was as vivid in her memory as it had been while she was experiencing it . |
| 16 | Increasingly referred to by its citizens as ‘ the Zone ’ , as it had been when it was merely the Soviet occupation zone , it has achieved no genuine separate identity or legitimacy . |
| 17 | I saw Masha gliding through towards us : that unmistakable froth of brown hair , the exuberant , doll-like face ; and behind her , over-topping her , the bleak , dark face of Victor Surkov , his hair not grey as it had been when we last met some six years ago , but a brilliant yellow spreading down over his shoulders . |
| 18 | Mr Kendal inspected the cellar in 1891 and found the place exactly as it had been when Durham used it . |
| 19 | It was as pained and as lost-even now , as he came to kill her — as it had been when they 'd faced each other in the street . |
| 20 | Under Edward IV the business of both Secretary and Signet increased , and after his death the office of Secretary was not suspended during the minority of Edward V , as it had been when Henry VI was a child . |
| 21 | It was in darkness , just as it had been when they had been there earlier that evening . |
| 22 | Whatever the causes , a pattern of illness was established in Eliot 's now unsettled life , as it had been when he was living with Vivien . |
| 23 | But the past , not the future , now claimed him : on this same trip to New York , he told William Turner Levy that he had dreamed of his family as it had been when he was a small child . |
| 24 | Everything was the same as it had been when he left it to go to the club the night before last . |
| 25 | It would seem that the region of Powys in north-east Wales remained as much in the front-line of warfare with the northern Angles in the time of Eadwine as it had been when Aethelfrith defeated the men of Powys at Chester . |
| 26 | The Wolfwood was as dark and as secretive as it had been when they journeyed through to the Forest Court with Nuadu , but here and there , deep within the Trees , Floy caught the darting movement of green and gold ; the rustling of silver-tipped leaves that looked , for a moment , like the trailing hair of a creature almost Human … |
| 27 | So , for thirty years Alfred Glynn had preserved this room as it had been when he still believed that the silk counterpane and the eiderdown would be the covers on his marriage bed . |
| 28 | Even as she tried to evade him , he was drawing her closer , making the blood sing in her veins as he smiled down at her , the hypnotic blue eyes half shuttered but still as powerful , as he raised a firm hand to the back of her head , guiding her face towards his own , his mouth seeking the trembling softness of hers , hard and demanding as it reached its goal , yet instantly becoming as gentle and manipulative as it had been when he had coaxed the throbbing melody from the borrowed trumpet . |
| 29 | As long as he was there , nothing was different , it was all as it had been when he came back on Tuesday , even the baby next door was moaning sleepily , and from the open window in the living-room he could hear a dog helping outside . |
| 30 | But Connon remained as cool and unmoved as he had been while listening to Hurst . |