Example sentences of "[adj] as she had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not as disconcerted as she had expected to be . |
| 2 | By the time they made it back to the house she no longer knew whether she was as fine as she had insisted on telling him . |
| 3 | The close stifling feeling of menace , present as she had walked down the path on that evening in May , returned a hundredfold , settling above the little cottage , like an ancient , ugly crone over her cooking pot . |
| 4 | In spite of the squalor of her clothes she looked almost as superb as she had done in her ravishing French dress . |
| 5 | If she had really been as indifferent as she had pretended to be , then she would n't have reacted at all . |
| 6 | She swam and read and sat in the sun … about as close as she had come to getting what she 'd imagined for her one shining summer . |
| 7 | She did n't look as bad as she had done in the dressing room but she was obviously not young , not slender , not a girl . |