Example sentences of "as [pron] had been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was nervous before stepping onto the set of Delinquents , just as she had been all those years ago when she did the rehearsals for The Henderson Kids . |
| 2 | She would be now , as she had been all that day , out praying for his soul . |
| 3 | She was becoming almost as sensitive to him as she had been all those years ago . |
| 4 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 5 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 6 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |
| 7 | Sebastian and I began to feel as close as we had been all those years ago . |
| 8 | The traffic and the crowds were passing interminably in each direction , as they had been all the time . |
| 9 | Gould , the ornithologist , was with him , and as they had been some days without anything to eat , except what they shot , they enjoyed a good breakfast . |
| 10 | It was shimmering under the surface as it had been all afternoon . |
| 11 | Medical men had perforce to be botanists , and often gardeners as well , and in time medical knowledge came to be the perquisite of the European religious orders , as it had been that of the priests in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs . |
| 12 | A shiver ran through Theda 's body — the frame that was near a shadow of itself , just as it had been that long-gone day in March . |
| 13 | Gladly , willingly , he accepted and he again became a familiar figure at our ground as he had been all those years before . |
| 14 | ‘ What would he want a word about ? ’ she questioned hostilely , wanting him to be gentle as he had been that morning . |