Example sentences of "as he had [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |
| 3 | Because the tentacled exter was a living legend — of crime — as he had been for longer than I 'd been alive . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | One year into marriage he became irritable , demanding and critical , much as he had been in earlier relationships . |