Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [adj] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mood of heavy tragedy seemed congenial ; it was good to know that other people , far away and long ago , had felt as miserable as she did . |
| 2 | He had felt greatly excited as he and his father got up at 5am to travel by bus and train from their home in Heywood , Lancashire to Ben Rhydding near Ilkley where the meeting was to take place . |
| 3 | I had become as strong as my Dad . |
| 4 | Without his realising it , Alec 's voice had become as enthusiastic as his uncle 's . |
| 5 | He had sounded immensely sad as he spoke , and I wondered if the girl had meant more to him than being merely a casual friend , but I did not like to ask and Maggovertski was clearly disinclined to explain more , so I just stared down at the aerial chart , and I suddenly noticed , in an otherwise empty space beneath an intersection of two air corridors , the tiny island of Murder Cay . |
| 6 | Khruschev 's boasts in the late 1950s , that Communism would outstrip capitalism by the 1980s , had proved as empty as his threats over Berlin . |
| 7 | She had seemed quite tranquil as they walked in the sunshine through the crowded cathedral square where spectator stands were being erected ready for the Easter celebrations . |
| 8 | Now those are in years for consistently what we have done is we have held those savings in order to do what we said earlier , prune this council back and we structured the organisation by pruning back on staff and that 's why th the vacancies had run as high as they have . |