Example sentences of "as [pers pn] have been with " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I had a son , and my mother was delighted , as she had been with her own son . |
| 3 | So she would tell herself when she was sick and retching and dizzy , in a week or two , as she 'd been with Liam . |
| 4 | The magic was every bit as exciting the second time around as it had been with William . |
| 5 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 6 | Archbishop Aethelberht is said not to have spared evil kings , and there must be a possibility that he was soon as disenchanted with Aethelred 's faction as he had been with Alhred 's . |
| 7 | Ken was n't as happy with this one as he had been with its predecessor . |
| 8 | She hoped so , hoped he was being as scathing with him as he 'd been with herself . |