Example sentences of "as he [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President of the IBOA 1989–91 , Vice-President 1987–89 and , since 1991 , a managers ' panel member of the Executive Committee , as he had been 1985–87 . |
| 2 | Gladly , willingly , he accepted and he again became a familiar figure at our ground as he had been all those years before . |
| 3 | His arthritis made it impossible for him to walk as he had been used to doing . |
| 4 | He was a mainstay of City government in the crisis caused by plague in 1593 , when he was in his seventies , just as he had been thirty years before , in the devastating epidemic of 1563 . |
| 5 | Geoffrey 's appointment was appropriate , as he had been assistant to the marshal in the Welsh war of 1282 . |
| 6 | Just as he had been rich enough to build The Towers … . |
| 7 | ‘ What would he want a word about ? ’ she questioned hostilely , wanting him to be gentle as he had been that morning . |
| 8 | The school he 'd wanted me to go to so that I could be as clever as he had once been and go to Oxford the way he 'd done and not waste it as he had been foolish enough to do . |
| 9 | He had returned earlier in the day and Maeve was as ecstatic to see him as he had been hungry for her . |
| 10 | The king himself had strongly favoured the Auld Alliance with France , particularly as he had been able to use it so much to his advantage , and had certainly upheld the Catholic church . |
| 11 | James planned a diversionary landing in Scotland and Major-General William Buchan was sent to Dunkirk with such few troops as he had been able to assemble to sail direct to Aberdeenshire . |
| 12 | I had kept him waiting for over an hour , though he was n't too annoyed as he had been able to retrieve three brand new titanium ice screws and a rope , left , we presumed , after an incident the night before when we had a helicopter hovering above the face . |
| 13 | But she could still recall , quite vividly , how it had been when she and Tom had married , just as soon as he had been able to dispense with his crutches : their brief but ecstatic honeymoon , the way he had so gently and expertly initiated her into the pleasures of sex and how , in spite of all his subsequent straying , she had remained faithful , forgiving and in love with him , in her own way , right to the end . |
| 14 | She had taken to her marriage-bed , therefore , a certain natural innocence and all the ignorance considered essential to her station , of which Tristan had relieved her as gently and pleasantly as he had been able , his passion lacking the intensity which might , on those honeymoon nights , have alarmed her ; being , instead , a lighthearted matter , full of the nonchalant reflections of the man himself . |
| 15 | En route , we passed a woodman baking potatoes and chestnuts on the ashes of a fire , as Jean-Claude had done , and a huge swarm of angry , iridescent flies hovering over a dead fox , as he had been accustomed to finding close at hand . |
| 16 | As he had been delirious on arrival , the authorities , knowing that his landlady , Mrs Avery , had been responsible for getting him into hospital , simply put down her name as next-of-kin . |
| 17 | Just as he had been wont to do as a boy , so this morning after waking , he had lain and thought of the day ahead and what he had to do in it , and he was aware that life had taken on a tinge of colour . |
| 18 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 19 | Seeing as he 'd been such a pain , I was a little slow going to his rescue . |
| 20 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 21 | Yet not only had she not said anything but as far as he 'd been able to ascertain she had n't left him any lunch . |
| 22 | He added : ‘ Lee was outstanding as he has been all season . |
| 23 | Forrest plays for the reserves tonight and will welcome the match practice as he has been unable to win his first team place back from Clive Baker . |