Example sentences of "as [pron] had been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Just as she had been a conscientious dancer , she now became an equally conscientious needlewoman . |
| 3 | In the police service there was no simple end to the day as there had been no simple beginning . |
| 4 | There was no proper funeral , as there had been no proper wedding ceremony ; they simply hauled the waterlogged body onto a bonfire of driftwood , and even though the sea wind at dawn had made the fire hot enough to break the stones of the beach , it was six hours before the body was gone , and then they had to wait a whole day before they could rake the ashes for his bones and send them to her . |
| 5 | Would there be cakes and ‘ Happy Birthday , Jesus ’ from the guards as there had been the previous two Christmases ? |
| 6 | Its huge success grated even more , especially as it had been a Labour paper until Murdoch had bought it and turned it into a cornerstone of his international media empire . |
| 7 | The valley ended quite suddenly in a massive amphitheatre of surrounding mountains rising to 7,000 ft , and as it had been a cold spring there was still a lot of snow . |
| 8 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 9 | It was all there , just as it had been the previous night : the exhilaration , the mounting excitement , the warm , wonderful sensation of not being isolated and lonely . |
| 10 | This was not entirely unexpected , as he had been a firm supporter of the project , and the union had put £7,000 into the earlier feasibility study , but it was still a useful bonus , and provided the sort of result NoS needed to wave around . |
| 11 | Ian was the best at making himself understood as he had been a Latin scholar . |
| 12 | My master was still asleep , as he had been the previous evening when I returned from my love tryst . |