Example sentences of "as he [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his later career he was hard-working and respected , especially by those in whose interests he was acting , but not innovative , as he had been during the heroic period of sanitary reform . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ken was n't as happy with this one as he had been with its predecessor . |
| 4 | On the last Monaghan Day that McQuaid came to the house Moran was on edge as he waited for him as he had been on edge every Monaghan Day , the only day in the year that McQuaid came to Great Meadow . |
| 5 | And a nasty place it was : jammed with junk Victorian furnishings and attitudes , squirearchical , male , fascistic ( Waugh was as keen on the Croatian Ustashe as he had been on Franco ) , anti-Jewish , bitter against the ‘ common man ’ , devoted to cranky equations between social hierarchy and linguistic purity . |
| 6 | For a split second Joseph looked as agitated as he had been on the Jonquil the day after the murder . |
| 7 | And she thought of him relaxed , as he had been on the beach , his incredible body beside hers as they ran down to the sea , his face laughing and his hair untidy … |
| 8 | Tom Poole , who had nursed his father devotedly at the end , was in low spirits , but was as instantly captivated by his visitor as he had been at their first meeting . |
| 9 | Phil Lowe was as dangerous here as he had been at Wembley . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | This shows that Anselm was quite as ready to face exile for the primacy as he had been for obedience to the pope . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | Because the tentacled exter was a living legend — of crime — as he had been for longer than I 'd been alive . |
| 14 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |
| 15 | Merceron was not reappointed as a justice of the peace , but in other respects he was as much in control ( either directly or through his brother-in-law , who became vestry clerk ) as he had been before 1809 . |
| 16 | The writer was Ford Madox Ford , who was among the most loyal as he had been among the first of Pound 's friends ; in the twenties he was as penurious and as out of fashion as Pound . |
| 17 | The climb had been no trouble to Harry , bred as he had been among the crags of Snowdon . |
| 18 | His main interest was foreign and defence policy ( for a time he was both Prime Minister and Minister of Defence , as he had been from 1940 to 1945 ) . |
| 19 | He was as shocked here as he had been by the scenes he had witnessed in London 's East End . |
| 20 | He was taken over by it as he had been by the piety which had moved him so completely in St Kentigern 's . |
| 21 | He was suddenly moved by her physically , as he had been by the sight of her in the film . |
| 22 | Burn 's nephew , MacVicar Anderson , ensured that Burn was as secretive about his methods of house planning in death as he had been in life . |
| 23 | He was just as fussy on the North Shore as he had been in France . |
| 24 | One year into marriage he became irritable , demanding and critical , much as he had been in earlier relationships . |
| 25 | According to one report , Vincent was as dismissive of academic study as he had been in Amsterdam . |
| 26 | And Coleby was as hampered now as he had been in Emor by his lack of imagination : get him away from a straightforward discussion of bricks , mortar and money , and the man was lost ; give him a load of crap about the artistic temperament , and his sense of smell deserted him . |
| 27 | Not a day went by but she saw Anthony 's face , and superimposed on it the face of Stavros , smirking slightly as he had been in the cemetery . |
| 28 | However , his appearance had been that of an eighteen-year-old , which makes nonsense for a second time of the press claims that Lord Haw-Haw was as puny in appearance as he had been in his human sympathies . |
| 29 | Wilson , his enemies suggested , had been as reckless with money as he had been in organising strikes which brought no advantage to his members . |
| 30 | Used as he had been in his youth to the drabs of the garrison towns , the Major nevertheless began courteously to disengage himself . |