Example sentences of "as [pers pn] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I was gratified to have your letter , as I had been wondering how you were faring , but understood that you must be too busy to write . |
| 7 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 8 | I could see my sister being nourished as I had been nourished , and I was demanding some sort of parity . |
| 9 | Instead of withdrawing and being generally anti-social , as I had been , I began to argue with people — teachers and pupils alike — and to disrupt other people 's activities for the sake of disruption . |
| 10 | Nigel was almost as impressed with the fireplace as I had been , and really it inspired a feeling that was almost reverent . |
| 11 | I was becoming an old hand by now ; I was n't nearly as nervous as I had been the other times , even though the audience was twice the size . |
| 12 | It was one thing for the pale brown islanders to swim in their Mother Hubbards , or often , as I had been told , bare-breasted . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I was relieved for myself , as I had been dreading driving again so soon . |
| 15 | But , as I had been warned , there were no cars . |
| 16 | I had known the family for some years as I had been Mrs Singh 's English tutor on a local authority adult literacy programme . |
| 17 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |
| 18 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 19 | I explained that I had come to visit Blefuscu , as I had been invited . |
| 20 | I was tempted to stop struggling against him , as I had been tempted before , in a different way , by Mr Rochester . |
| 21 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |
| 22 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 23 | I think it was his fourth , but as I had been a child during this proliferation of fiancées I was n't certain . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 26 | To my sorrow I missed out personally on this one as I had been " grounded " at that period for various reasons . |
| 27 | As I had been enjoying Marlborough , which in atmosphere , personnel , and not least location , was in total contrast to the Sloane School , Chelsea , I no doubt gave him a slightly rose-tinted account of the life there . |
| 28 | When I was approached to become a member of the group interested in ‘ the teaching of practical skills in biology ’ , I was only too pleased to become involved as I had been concerned , for some time , about my own teaching skills and strategies used in the classroom situation . |
| 29 | I was not very worried as I had been told that the school was very good . |
| 30 | I swore my pupils would never be restricted and repressed as I had been . |