Example sentences of "[adv] as he [vb past] be [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Phil Lowe was as dangerous here as he had been at Wembley . |
| 5 | He was as shocked here as he had been by the scenes he had witnessed in London 's East End . |