Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't been to Heathrow as much as I 'd been to Gatwick |
| 2 | I was seated next to Professor St John Goth , as I had been on the previous night ; Dominic and Lee were opposite , and Mr and Mrs Maclean from Stirling were on my right . |
| 3 | As I had been on the medical side since he came back , this was the first time he had spoken to me , or probably seen me . |
| 4 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |
| 5 | In early 1986 , my foot finally healed and I began to train as if I was as fit as I had been before my injury . |
| 6 | I felt pleased of course , but strangely enough I did n't feel as elated as perhaps I should have done : not as elated as I had been after setting my British record in Madrid . |
| 7 | Mary Rose was a kind and simple woman , in awe of her husband , as she had been of her father , as she was of her parish priest . |
| 8 | The battered red car arrived at 7pm , Maria Yackle was dressed as she had been for her previous visit , but because it was rather cold , wore a jacket made of synthetic fur as well . |
| 9 | Although , as for this last speculation , Harriet could not help thinking that if Liza was still as distressed as she had been at home , she would have been even more likely to let her mother know , for she had never before been one to suffer in silence . |
| 10 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 11 | Sophie looked almost as surprised as she had been at Helen 's news . |
| 12 | She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick . |
| 13 | Unlike Pete he smelled nice — Sally thought it was Old Spice — and when he pressed his hips against hers she was excited by the sensations it aroused , not revolted as she had been with the Teddy Boy at the youth club dance . |
| 14 | I had a son , and my mother was delighted , as she had been with her own son . |
| 15 | The ceremony meant an unscheduled return to work for Christine as she had been off work with a broken hip , but was well on the way to recovery and set for a New Year return . |
| 16 | She would n't be as easy to vanquish as she had been outside the Feelgood Saloon . |
| 17 | At first appraisal , Great Britain was , in 1914 , undisputed mistress of the seas , as she had been since 1805 when Admiral Lord Nelson destroyed the combined Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar . |
| 18 | The potty training restarted and then after 6 months she was re-established on cows milk starting with plain yogurt ( just as she had been during weaning . ) ’ |
| 19 | A picture of her as she had been in life came up on the screen . |
| 20 | The tiles around Virginia 's bedroom fire-place , with the central motif of sailing boat and lighthouse , were designed especially by Vanessa , moved as she had been by her sister 's novel , To the Lighthouse , which memorialised their childhood summers at St Ives in Cornwall . |
| 21 | Her distress was evident to Nicandra , who felt nearly as embarrassed by Dada 's miserable driving as she had been by Aunt Tossie 's disgraceful exhibition . |
| 22 | Theda had hardly heard her , overwhelmed as she had been by the thoughtfulness of the unknown gentleman . |
| 23 | Again , she was all alone , as she had been after her father 's death , and after Spanish Fork . |
| 24 | So she would tell herself when she was sick and retching and dizzy , in a week or two , as she 'd been with Liam . |
| 25 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 26 | He 'd had this sickness all along , of course , but he 'd worsened since the assassin 's visit , and her tolerance for these traits , braced as she 'd been by her encounter with Gentle , had dropped to zero . |
| 27 | Here , in the region , there had been as much talk of Stokoe 's stars in the Wembley build up as there had been of the side Malcolm Crosby led out against Liverpool . |
| 28 | There was no volte-face here as there had been on religion . |
| 29 | There were no major artists on Virgin whose sensibilities were likely to be offended as there had been at the Pistols ' previous stopovers ; no American parent company to interfere . |
| 30 | There was no shrub and palm cover bound by creepers as there had been in the rain forest so that the track was little protected from the squalls that struck up the mountainside , screeching like banshees , as they bowed the slender treetrunks almost to the ground . |