Example sentences of "[pers pn] as she have [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 He had glanced up at her as she 'd swept into his office , dressed in a pair of slim navy trousers and a plain navy top , her working gear , and told her , ‘ Take a seat .
2 His glance had never left her as she 'd tapped towards him across the mirror-like floor , dark eyes sweeping her from head to toe to take in her black high-heeled shoes , black stockings and the stark simplicity of the black wool dress skimming her knees , with a sardonic half-smile .
3 Terence had tried to talk to her as she had gone to her car , then the fat one had cat-called like a teenage oaf .
4 He loves you , ’ said Comfort , and Julia believed her as she had believed her all those years before when Comfort had been urging her to fall in love with him .
5 The question surprised her as she had expected him to pick up on her insult .
6 Those were the broken spears and spinning , shattered wheels of chariots whose mournful death had so affected her as she had tried to protect Scathach from the Scald-crows .
7 He wondered , once , if she would weep for him as she had done for Ansaldo .
8 She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time .
9 Her eyes swept across his face , and suddenly she had the almost overwhelming desire to tell him that it was n't important at all , that she was , inside , what he 'd called a real woman , one who wanted a home and children to fill it , and most of all a husband , a man who would take her in his arms and kiss her until nothing mattered except him , kiss her as Nicolo had , make her want him as she 'd wanted Nicolo …
10 LUKE PERRY flashes a smile that sends teenage girls wild … and explains why his most famous fan , Madonna , will NOT be seeing as much of him as she 'd hoped .
11 Clara liked it as she had liked everything that afternoon , but even as she stood there and admired , and heard the history of the lump of mosaic , and listened to Martin 's views on Candida 's view on the social connotations of goldfish , she began to feel a sense of overwhelming fatigue .
12 She had almost touched it as she had turned , and had seen again the blood on the sawdust and the fear and the faces staring .
13 She was only half-committed to the new idea herself , not nearly as sure about it as she had made out to Nails — heaven knows how they would fit in all that training , teaching three boys to ride !
14 Cos every , cos really the should go direct to her , and it as she 's taken notice of you yet .
15 He had helped one woman with a pushchair and screaming infant on to a bus earlier , and she had gripped his hand tightly in hers as she had said thank you .
16 In America the war was not much more decisive than its predecessor , but British successes in Europe and claims to compensation to make up for the fact that the Bourbons had secured the Spanish throne meant that Britain kept her gains instead of returning them as she had done in 1697 .
17 She thought she might have , that he had come to her in her sleep , whispered to her as he was whispering to her now , but she had forced the dream images away , she had denied them as she had denied what he wanted of her from the beginning .
18 She reported that she had already removed , cleaned and returned them as she had caught some wool under one of them .
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