Example sentences of "[verb] as they had " in BNC.
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| 1 | After losing seven goals in two games , Thistle were as resolutely organised as they had previously been chaotically lax . |
| 2 | It seemed like an excellent opportunity to put himself to the test , see if his reflexes were as finely honed as they had been in the old days . |
| 3 | It might not have prevented her feelings for him from developing as they had , but it would certainly not have caused a change in the atmosphere in this place , and he might have remained livable with . |
| 4 | But then she remembered the light beams and what they had said as they had passed her : ‘ Not fair . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm so glad that Uncle James did n't sell the family home , ’ Liz had said as they had walked around the garden just before she had left Devon to catch the plane back to New York . |
| 6 | She was unaware of any undue familiarity between herself and her cousin ; they seemed as they had always seemed since childhood . |
| 7 | Across the water , the loud hailers were blaring and squealing as they had in the winter , when Tzani-bey had caught and herded the Order . |
| 8 | She rejected the idea immediately : the Newleys deserved to reap as they had sowed . |
| 9 | It was going as they had planned . |
| 10 | One thing he did was to reassure them that planning was not as far advanced as they had feared . |
| 11 | There were a thousand uses for Herrick 's implants , but most would be used as they had on Haavikko — to make a man vulnerable by making him believe he had done something when he had n't . |
| 12 | Tom issued the orders to the watching villagers and , as they scurried to do as they had been told , he said to Seb , ‘ Go around to the stables . |
| 13 | But the position did become clearer in various respects ; and the problems and disputes which arose were seldom so acute or threatening as they had sometimes been in the past . |
| 14 | But members of the fund-raising committee now believe it will not be run as they had hoped . |
| 15 | They went as they had appeared , at night . |
| 16 | Twenty minutes later , George Leeming lay as they had first seen him , except that his eyes were now open and his back arched as the doctor had placed a pillow under him to make him more comfortable . |
| 17 | I said that I just happened to have my travelling rod with me … though it hardly mattered as they had more than enough gear . |
| 18 | As the tide rose , the wind shredded the clouds above them and pushed a mighty swell across the water , so that they began to roll as they had once rolled at sea . |
| 19 | They were sitting as they had done as children years ago , Elaine with her legs tucked under her , Charles with his arms round his knees . |
| 20 | The lords-of the manoirs and their servants converged as they had in medieval times . |
| 21 | The hot water pipes gurgled as they had done for ten years . |
| 22 | Her soft blue eyes hardened as they had never done before in her life and she met his gaze head-on . |
| 23 | Can we really expect them to retain the same way of thinking as they had as penniless hopefuls , and if they did would n't that simply be an insipid patronisations ? |
| 24 | It may have become obvious to Pius and his advisers that a Council would not be as easy to manipulate as they had imagined . |
| 25 | after fighting one another for months in the House of Commons , were ready to meet together under the roof of the Sovereign and sink their own differences for a common good and arrange as they had done this morning for a National Government to meet one of the gravest crises that the British Empire had yet been asked to face . |
| 26 | He had n't expected them to act as they had . |
| 27 | ‘ Only staff could be asked to climb a set of stairs like this , ’ Mandy had panted as they had wrestled Charity 's suitcases up the hill yesterday . |
| 28 | And inside her an unbearable excitement was building as they had moved towards that luminous moment when the two of them would finally be one . |
| 29 | Thirteen patients were referred as they had been considered unsuitable for conventional cholecystectomy on account of various coexistent medical diseases ( complex group , table I ) , and 12 patients were referred as they had requested minimally invasive treatment for their gall bladder disease or specifically wished their gall bladder to be preserved ( non-complex group , table II ) . |
| 30 | Thirteen patients were referred as they had been considered unsuitable for conventional cholecystectomy on account of various coexistent medical diseases ( complex group , table I ) , and 12 patients were referred as they had requested minimally invasive treatment for their gall bladder disease or specifically wished their gall bladder to be preserved ( non-complex group , table II ) . |