Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] be [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lords were more diehard , as they had been ever since 1911 , but unless their powers were restored they would denounce the government in vain . |
| 2 | He looked long and searchingly at the Banks of Knamber that tonight were as they had been then before the moon rose , grey and pale as a sky dotted with tiny black clouds . |
| 3 | There was little vocal participation by the people in the Mass , and such music as they used was generally in the context of other services or ‘ devotions ’ . |
| 4 | In the first place , the number of very big cities was growing rapidly , as it had been since about the middle of the century . |
| 5 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |