Example sentences of "as [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The others , I explained , could be anywhere , as everyone had been reading them . |
| 2 | He said he could not explain why the iceberg was moving west and not east ‘ as everyone had anticipated ’ . |
| 3 | All she hoped was that her job was as secure as everyone had led her to believe . |
| 4 | There was very little noise as no-one had arrived — between twenty and thirty people were in the room — and we had this teeny stereo system about as big as a transistor radio for music . |
| 5 | She had rung the doorbell , but as no-one had come she had walked round the house to the garden . |
| 6 | There was an angel watching over me , as someone had once predicted in my childhood when she read my fortune in the tea-leaves , in my cup of white china with the gilt shamrock on the rim and in the centre of the saucer . |
| 7 | But we were losing and as someone had to get him off his backside I thought it might as well be me . ’ |
| 8 | But , as someone had once said to her — she could n't remember who — hate was only a hair 's breadth away from love . |
| 9 | It gave me a temporary Equity card — mind you they took it away again as soon as I had done the four weeks work . |
| 10 | But game did nothing for the glass , as I had hoped . |
| 11 | As I had never actually made a cold application for a job before , I did n't really know what to make of this . |
| 12 | I had also never before been without a pattern to the future , and I was starting to realize that it might not all be quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 13 | Jenny , as I had already worked out , was a woman of some means and she clearly was n't bothered by the fact she was having to subsidize me . |
| 14 | She insisted on having wine with the meal , and as I had n't had a drink in a long time , it made me feel rather tipsy . |
| 15 | And by the way , if you think that all homeless people have it as easy as I had it , then you are living in dream world . |
| 16 | I found the same classificatory system in use with the same unconscious linguistic divisions being applied as I had learned in the mid-1950s . |
| 17 | It occurred to me that as I had met nobody as I walked through the gate and went upstairs , there was no need to encounter anyone now , going down , and I moved my chair from the window . |
| 18 | For he is the AESTHETE , as I had Yeats speak of him . |
| 19 | I decided to visit the Marines that evening and , after thanking Mick for his hospitality , made my way back to the orchard , thinking that as I had visited each Commando unit each day when we were in England , why not now that we were in France ? |
| 20 | We both started to laugh as I had the last few words on the subject . |
| 21 | I parked the jeep under a tree and then , looking at my watch , I decided that as I had a couple of hours to spare I would take a walk across to the other bridge where I had noticed a café on our first day into Normandy . |
| 22 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 23 | As I had a twelfth-hand Hillman Imp at the time I drove him down to his place in South London . |
| 24 | It was not as I had expected at all because living in the kind of commune that Mary Finnigan 's house was , there was n't a lot of time for romance . |
| 25 | I no longer saw them , indeed , as legless beings on self moving pedestals as I had done at Salisbury but from being so constantly restricted in movement it seemed that they must be incapable of movement . |
| 26 | Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed . |
| 27 | The hall at Blackpool is ideally suited to rousing speeches but is totally wrong as the setting for a question-and-answer session — which proved to be just as appalling as I had feared . |
| 28 | When the bus started , they all crossed themselves , as I had seen nuns do in Ireland when setting out on a journey , however short . |
| 29 | Our friendship had been noticed , as I had hoped it would be , for I was so proud of having a friend . |
| 30 | As I had told Dr Grey Walter , a poet is born ‘ high ’ . |