Example sentences of "[adj] as it had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many ways I was greatly relieved as it had become obvious to me that he was n't well . |
| 2 | Her own strong and unthinking rejection of him had shocked her as much as it had shocked him . |
| 3 | The game exploded into life very much as it had done in Glasgow . |
| 4 | And the tone of the voice seemed to surprise Sister Aloysius as much as it had done the Mother Superior . |
| 5 | Unemployment problems put paid to Labour 's political prospects in the early 1930s just as much as it had helped the party to rise to political power in the 1920s . |
| 6 | For , proving that he cared for his family every bit as much as it had seemed , he said , ‘ Hello , Travis , come in . |
| 7 | It did n't feel as cold as it had done earlier in the day . |
| 8 | In 1933 roughly 4,000 banks shut their doors , and the United States was left with only half as many as it had had in 1929 . |
| 9 | But Jay 's spine became electric as Pergolese 's Stabat Mater came through the speakers sure as it had filled the dusk of her dream . |
| 10 | In France the factionalism from which the country suffered was largely inspired by the nobility , so that command of the army , as the tragedy experienced at Agincourt in 1415 demonstrated , was chiefly in the hands of noble leaders who gave the army a character as noble as it had had in the 1330s . |
| 11 | He quickly realised that , tactically , the situation at Verdun was not quite as desperate as it had seemed at first sight . |
| 12 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 13 | The family home , dilapidated as it had become , was the last tangible talisman of their pride and , rather than relinquish it , the Chamfers leased the building and what remained of its land to an educational trust formed by an academically inclined cousin , retaining shooting rights , fishing rights and the right to have their female descendants educated gratis . |
| 14 | However , it is doubtful whether state pensions policies were the prime cause of this decline since it continued at much the same rate after 1948 as it had done before . |
| 15 | The murderer thought about it , still finding it almost as amusing as it had seemed at the time ; the murderer 's sense of humour was childlike , adolescent at the best , but secretive . |