Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] been [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 2 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 3 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |
| 4 | Rovers have made enormous strides in the past 14 months and we were totally committed today — as we have been all season . ’ |
| 5 | Gould , the ornithologist , was with him , and as they had been some days without anything to eat , except what they shot , they enjoyed a good breakfast . |
| 6 | It was shimmering under the surface as it had been all afternoon . |
| 7 | ‘ What would he want a word about ? ’ she questioned hostilely , wanting him to be gentle as he had been that morning . |
| 8 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 9 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ Lee was outstanding as he has been all season . |