Example sentences of "[adv] as [pers pn] had be " 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 | This was largely but not exclusively an obsession of Congregationalists , much as it had been of mediaeval bishops . |
| 3 | The coach drove back through Cardiff , and past the High School — which looked , and was , much as it had been . |
| 4 | Its huge success grated even more , especially as it had been a Labour paper until Murdoch had bought it and turned it into a cornerstone of his international media empire . |
| 5 | Many of the university members of CASS and its boards were opposed to the principle , especially as it had been adopted before the arts and social studies had any real influence in the CNAA . |
| 6 | The dean in his address expressed his pleasure in installing the new mayor , especially as he had been asked to serve as his chaplain during the mayor 's year of office . |
| 7 | ‘ Words just ca n't express how I feel about the man who did this — especially as he had been drinking . |
| 8 | ‘ Fred Proctor asked him to sit down as he had been speaking long enough . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Peskova took her up to the top room — the big room beneath the eaves- and locked her in as he had been told to . |
| 11 | A few seconds later Susan came bursting in as she had been upstairs when she 'd heard Maggie 's voice . |
| 12 | The attic was not as it had been . |
| 13 | It was patently obvious to Klepner , now that he had read the plan , that the European trade environment was not as he had been led to believe . |
| 14 | Fierce local loyalties and rivalries were the life-blood of the amateur football leagues just as they had been in parish recreations a century before , and this carried over into commercial spectator sport , which offered a new kind of community life and identity . |
| 15 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |
| 16 | You found the dead embedded in the walls of the trenches , heads , legs and half-bodies , just as they had been shovelled out of the way by the picks and shovels of the working party . |
| 17 | It was in darkness , just as it had been when they had been there earlier that evening . |
| 18 | It was all there , just as it had been the previous night : the exhilaration , the mounting excitement , the warm , wonderful sensation of not being isolated and lonely . |
| 19 | A shiver ran through Theda 's body — the frame that was near a shadow of itself , just as it had been that long-gone day in March . |
| 20 | Everything had to be maintained just as it had been — for the day when Isabelle returned to Les Hiboux . |
| 21 | Linigan 's goal later left the forlorn Chris Waddle and his Wednesday mates in tears as Wembley became a sea of red-and-white just as it had been after the same Coca-Cola Cup scoreline a month earlier . |
| 22 | It was as if she was n't married ; just as it had been before , going to bed in her pink and white room , setting off for the ‘ Craft Basket ’ at half-past eight in the morning , just as she used to set off for school , home by five thirty , tea , telly , and some needlework to keep herself occupied . |
| 23 | Nigeria thus became an administered rather than a political society , just as it had been under colonialism . |
| 24 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 25 | Just as he had been wont to do as a boy , so this morning after waking , he had lain and thought of the day ahead and what he had to do in it , and he was aware that life had taken on a tinge of colour . |
| 26 | Sherek recalled how nervous and agitated he seemed at the first reading with the actors — just as he had been when he had first shown the play to Sherek . |
| 27 | Just as he had been rich enough to build The Towers … . |
| 28 | He was a mainstay of City government in the crisis caused by plague in 1593 , when he was in his seventies , just as he had been thirty years before , in the devastating epidemic of 1563 . |
| 29 | By getting out of the bargain books field now , he believed he might well be ‘ ahead of the game ’ , just as he had been when he set up the company . |
| 30 | Jilly Jonathan was sitting just as she had been ever since they had come out on to the terrace . |