Example sentences of "as he had been for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul climbed the stairs in trepidation ; had he made some mistake in the corrections , blind with pain as he had been for part of the day ? |
| 2 | This shows that Anselm was quite as ready to face exile for the primacy as he had been for obedience to the pope . |
| 3 | To be sure , one could sympathize with the sentiments of some of those penitents who refused themselves pleasures because the Emperor , saviour of mankind , could experience no pleasure whatever , locked as he had been for millennia in his prosthetic throne … |
| 4 | Because the tentacled exter was a living legend — of crime — as he had been for longer than I 'd been alive . |
| 5 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |