Example sentences of "[v-ing] 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 | He had as much right to be out walking as I had . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yes , he was every bit as good looking as she had thought he was when she had glimpsed him from the catwalk . |
| 7 | He had n't read the script , was n't acting as she had envisaged . |
| 8 | It was going as they had planned . |
| 9 | ( It was Lawrence who ‘ blew my cover , ’ he said , on finding that Leonard was failing to attend Law School lectures , which was all the more concerning as he had no scholarship to go there , only his family 's financial backing . ) |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He took his glasses off and put them on the table , and his eyes were dancing as she had n't seen them dance since the night he had revealed the identity of Miguelito . |
| 12 | His mother had been crying as she had rifled the house for money for him , and as she had made sandwiches to put in greaseproof paper because it would be dangerous for him to stop at cafés on his way to the airport . |
| 13 | Advisedly or otherwise , the Regent Douglas was doing as he had part-proposed . |
| 14 | Not only that ; Mordecai was equally definite that he was merely doing as he had been instructed . |
| 15 | We chartered a STOL ( short take-off and landing ) aircraft from the Summer Institute of Linguistics , a missionary organisation , and flew to Loreto , which from the map appeared to be a promising area for collecting as it had no roads and therefore no colonists . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | People were not behaving as he had ordained they should behave . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | If Offa thought he could attempt ‘ to deal on equal terms ’ with Charlemagne , therefore , he was mistaken , and the likelihood is that the Frankish court had come to view his ascendancy in southern England with misgivings , destroying as it had done the traditional shape of political power in the south-east . |
| 20 | Michael Swinton watched her in silence as he had watched her before , only proffering as he had done once before a handkerchief which he had plainly also used as a paint rag . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But for once he believed that he was seeing as he had striven all his life to see … |
| 23 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 24 | Though her heart was thumping as it had then , no one but herself would ever know it . |
| 25 | The Italian team 's French driver Jean Alesi posed for photographers in the new model but was unable to demonstrate the lightweight 644-B 's abilities at the car 's unveiling as it had broken down on Tuesday before it could be taken on a test run . |
| 26 | The only reference in Cook 's brochure to an individual was to ‘ the bronze figure of the man ’ , working as he had done since time immemorial . |