Example sentences of "as he [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the last Monaghan Day that McQuaid came to the house Moran was on edge as he waited for him as he had been on edge every Monaghan Day , the only day in the year that McQuaid came to Great Meadow . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Phil Lowe was as dangerous here as he had been at Wembley . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | This shows that Anselm was quite as ready to face exile for the primacy as he had been for obedience to the pope . |
| 6 | To be sure , one could sympathize with the sentiments of some of those penitents who refused themselves pleasures because the Emperor , saviour of mankind , could experience no pleasure whatever , locked as he had been for millennia in his prosthetic throne … |
| 7 | He was just as fussy on the North Shore as he had been in France . |
| 8 | According to one report , Vincent was as dismissive of academic study as he had been in Amsterdam . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was an awful place : dreary , badly furnished and he was n't as clean as he 'd been in hospital — food all down his clothes and he had n't shaved , he really looked unkempt . |