Example sentences of "as she had [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a second helping , as she had done of the casserole . |
| 2 | She tried to hide her feelings by concentrating , as she had done at the Red House , on the children . |
| 3 | When her moments of lucidity grew longer , Sycorax began to issue orders to Ariel , as she had done before the fire ; first , she felt an urgency , while her slow death continued , to pass on what she knew . |
| 4 | After lunch , Juliet , looking peaky and feeling grim , as she had done in the early months of her previous pregnancy , went upstairs to lie down . |
| 5 | Now Robyn threw herself into her work , staying up late into the night , as she had done in the early days of setting up her business , working with feverish persistence to complete a design . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Today 's world was one in which five-pound notes gushed benignly from the walls of banks at the touch of a button , in which people had only to scribble their names and anything they wished for was theirs ; a world in which — as she had seen on a television programme — unimaginable sums of money flew about the globe at the whim of shirt-sleeved young men who sat tapping idly at keyboards . |
| 8 | Had her feelings and longings as she had lain in the grass , remembering Dick and their lovemaking , her body crying out for a repetition of the act , forged a false link in her mind ? |
| 9 | As she had come round the corner of the house from putting her bicycle in the old stable block , Inspector Blakelock had been standing at the front door almost as if he were waiting for her . |
| 10 | The phone rang just as she had climbed into the bath . |
| 11 | If Vitor chose to take an interest , what would it entail ? she brooded , as she had brooded over the subject a thousand times before . |
| 12 | For better and for worse reasons as she had divined as a girl . |
| 13 | As soon as she had disappeared through the front doorway , Jessamy swung round to face Julius . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | After Edgbaston came the English Stroke-Play Championship at Hollinwell where , as she had feared from the outset , she had to pull out after just the one round because of swollen glands . |
| 16 | Perhaps she heard his steps before he knocked — she opened the door very quickly — and he wondered for a moment if she had been as she had when he last saw her , standing just inside the door , her head on one side , listening , as she had listened to the bombs , and to the siren she heard before it was sounded . |
| 17 | As soon as she had recovered from the months of Rhoda 's illness , and come to terms with her death , and adjusted to the sudden change in her circumstances , she would do something about it . |
| 18 | When the boy , as she had thought of the youth but who was actually seventeen , came into the room he needed no urging to sit at the table ; then grinning at the child , he said , ‘ What 's your name ? ’ |
| 19 | As she had worked for the civil service previously , she applied and was sent a booklet which specified an age range for applicants of 17 ½ to 28 years . |