Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [been] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also did what any American college president is expected to do — he raised money , leaving the college on a sounder footing , both financially and academically , than it had been when he took office . |
| 2 | The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived . |
| 3 | The demesne plantation was now very much smaller than it had been when Alec was a boy . |
| 4 | Her cutaway T-shirt was even more cutaway than it had been when she bought it . |
| 5 | She saw the water at a higher level than it had been when Henrietta had been lowered into it and the mouths of the two pipes were almost submerged . |
| 6 | Between 1984/85 and 1988/89 the tax ratio fell very slightly , but in April 1989 it was still higher than it had been when the Conservatives took office . |
| 7 | The only thing that was any dearer to him now than it had been when he started was his picture of the murdered woman . |
| 8 | In effect , he made the interpretation of the word " Nationality " ( narodnost' ) even more dependent on the traditional notions of " Orthodoxy " and " Autocracy " than it had been when he promulgated Nicholas I 's tripartite programme in 1833 . |
| 9 | ‘ Be ready at eleven tomorrow morning ! ’ rapped a voice she would know anywhere , his tone not one whit pleasanter than it had been when he 'd left her flat last night . |
| 10 | Increasingly referred to by its citizens as ‘ the Zone ’ , as it had been when it was merely the Soviet occupation zone , it has achieved no genuine separate identity or legitimacy . |
| 11 | I saw Masha gliding through towards us : that unmistakable froth of brown hair , the exuberant , doll-like face ; and behind her , over-topping her , the bleak , dark face of Victor Surkov , his hair not grey as it had been when we last met some six years ago , but a brilliant yellow spreading down over his shoulders . |
| 12 | Mr Kendal inspected the cellar in 1891 and found the place exactly as it had been when Durham used it . |
| 13 | It was as pained and as lost-even now , as he came to kill her — as it had been when they 'd faced each other in the street . |
| 14 | Under Edward IV the business of both Secretary and Signet increased , and after his death the office of Secretary was not suspended during the minority of Edward V , as it had been when Henry VI was a child . |
| 15 | It was in darkness , just as it had been when they had been there earlier that evening . |
| 16 | Whatever the causes , a pattern of illness was established in Eliot 's now unsettled life , as it had been when he was living with Vivien . |
| 17 | But the past , not the future , now claimed him : on this same trip to New York , he told William Turner Levy that he had dreamed of his family as it had been when he was a small child . |
| 18 | Everything was the same as it had been when he left it to go to the club the night before last . |
| 19 | It would seem that the region of Powys in north-east Wales remained as much in the front-line of warfare with the northern Angles in the time of Eadwine as it had been when Aethelfrith defeated the men of Powys at Chester . |
| 20 | The Wolfwood was as dark and as secretive as it had been when they journeyed through to the Forest Court with Nuadu , but here and there , deep within the Trees , Floy caught the darting movement of green and gold ; the rustling of silver-tipped leaves that looked , for a moment , like the trailing hair of a creature almost Human … |
| 21 | So , for thirty years Alfred Glynn had preserved this room as it had been when he still believed that the silk counterpane and the eiderdown would be the covers on his marriage bed . |
| 22 | Even as she tried to evade him , he was drawing her closer , making the blood sing in her veins as he smiled down at her , the hypnotic blue eyes half shuttered but still as powerful , as he raised a firm hand to the back of her head , guiding her face towards his own , his mouth seeking the trembling softness of hers , hard and demanding as it reached its goal , yet instantly becoming as gentle and manipulative as it had been when he had coaxed the throbbing melody from the borrowed trumpet . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | For it had been when Ryan had died , three years ago now , that the situation between her and Jake had come to a head . |