Example sentences of "[verb] as [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julia looked at David then and was a little surprised to see that he was not laughing as she had expected . |
| 2 | Images flickered across the disordered screen of her mind — Rune provocatively , dominantly angry at their first meeting ; Rune , eyes shuttered , playing ‘ her ’ song ; Rune , mouth tender , eyes laughing as he had watched the children playing at the funfair in Tivoli ; Rune , seeking her out at her hotel , deliberately drawing her into his life ; Rune , his blond head bent , handling her damaged foot with such tenderness ; Rune … |
| 3 | After losing seven goals in two games , Thistle were as resolutely organised as they had previously been chaotically lax . |
| 4 | By then she 'd had our second child for which I got blamed as she had n't wanted to be pregnant again . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | With Brian away so much of the week , would she have the strength of character to sit down and try to write as she had once imagined ? |
| 7 | The tiles around Virginia 's bedroom fire-place , with the central motif of sailing boat and lighthouse , were designed especially by Vanessa , moved as she had been by her sister 's novel , To the Lighthouse , which memorialised their childhood summers at St Ives in Cornwall . |
| 8 | And — ’ with a grateful glance at Benedict , who was standing by , mute , moved as he had not expected to be by this reunion he had brought about ‘ — thanks to this intelligent and resourceful young man , it is over now . ’ |
| 9 | I told him I had planned to take him to lunch but he said he could n't wait as he had some business to attend to , but he 'd be in a pub called the Banker if I could pick him up about three . |
| 10 | After he 'd gone out , she continued to stand as she had when he 'd kissed her — as she had when Zeno had kissed her . |
| 11 | They explained that the meeting was cancelled and everyone dispersed as it had been confirmed that the government was about to arrest all strike leaders . |
| 12 | Substituting t-butyl hydroperoxide for alloxan in a similar experiment , Clark found as he had hoped , that parasitaemia again dropped radically . |
| 13 | She behaved as she had never thought it would be possible for her to behave . |
| 14 | The house looked as it had done for three centuries ; Lord Cumbermound was in no doubt that it would manage another three . |
| 15 | He had as much right to be out walking as I had . ’ |
| 16 | Poland was not even in the same shape or place as it had been , and virtually the only thing that now united the Poles of the different partition experiences , religious beliefs and political outlooks was a new found sense of Polish national feeling . |
| 17 | Theda had hardly heard her , overwhelmed as she had been by the thoughtfulness of the unknown gentleman . |
| 18 | They had both turned as she had entered , and she had the stupid urge to tell them to carry on , she hoped she was n't interrupting anything . |
| 19 | If she had done as he had suggested , become a doctor maybe , or a teacher , he would be alive today and she would be living a normal life . |
| 20 | I intended to say merely that we had done as he had instructed us in his letter , hoping that he would thereby confirm the letter as a matter of course . |
| 21 | Not even the raids on the town 's three gay brothels brought forth a whisper of information about Surere 's whereabouts , and after four days of intensive hunting , over ground which included the Valley of the Great Tombs on the west bank of the river , Merymose began to think that perhaps , after all , the escaped political had done as he had told Huy he would , and left for the northern deserts to found his religious community . |
| 22 | Having seen me she had also seen that I was alone , and watching me from cover as she undoubtedly was , she would assume I was going to the pool to drink as she had done . |
| 23 | Their hay would be fed as it had been cut , handful by handful , and should be enough with seaweed and oat straw to feed her till she was helped out in the spring . |
| 24 | Ellie tried to imagine how her mother must have felt as she had left Ireland by boat , to sail the Atlantic and marry a man she had met only a handful of times . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Not only am I not prepared to have a semi-detached marriage , but I 'm convinced that if you really cared for me you would have no hesitation about placing my interests first , ’ had been his parting shot as he had left the apartment , slamming the front door loudly behind him . |
| 27 | I was really deeply moved as I had only seen such a thing before in religious pictures . |
| 28 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |
| 29 | Seated on the settee , she watched his face and realised that he was as moved as she had been . |
| 30 | But then she remembered the light beams and what they had said as they had passed her : ‘ Not fair . ’ |