Example sentences of "[adv] as [pers pn] had see " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could describe the men only as he had seen them , masked , in shapeless tracksuits . |
| 2 | Although still on the top floor , they now had lifts , or rather elevators , to take them up and once inside the dressing-room each Girl had her own mirror well lit by bulbs surrounding three sides just as they had seen in the films . |
| 3 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |
| 4 | The gilded chair by the dressing-table was strewn with clothing , just as I had seen it when I had sometimes taken in her morning tisane . |
| 5 | Mrs Frizzell hastily drew in her stomach , tucked in her tail , and posed with her rake , just as she had seen the Hudson 's Bay Company model do when showing pants . |
| 6 | And there at Stamford , the beautiful town that Celia Fiennes and Defoe had admired so much remained almost exactly as they had seen it : but fossilised , moribund . |
| 7 | And then it occurred to Cathy that although the old man was lying exactly as she had seen him , something had changed . |
| 8 | He told it , exactly as he had seen it , not concealing that there were curious and doubtful points in it which even witnessing could not make plain . |
| 9 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |
| 10 | Carlie believed everyone was out to do her in , and she had disliked Mrs Mason , the foster mother , as soon as she had seen her standing in the doorway . |
| 11 | But she had known as soon as she had seen the glazed eye that this was death . |
| 12 | She , of course , had plunged , dived , tumbled , plummeted heart-first straight into desperate love for Miles as soon as she had seen him . |
| 13 | Claudia looked at Dana 's angry face and knew that if Roman had proposed she would have told her , triumphantly , as soon as she had seen her , accident or no accident . |
| 14 | Was this what she had felt as soon as she had seen him — a man who would interfere with her life ? |
| 15 | He had reached for the Ruger as soon as he had seen the taxi pull up , and he had had the Ruger in his grip when the front door opposite had opened , and he had loosened the grip when he had seen that the target carried no cases , only had his daughters ’ hands in his . |
| 16 | As soon as I had seen this reading of the phrase it at once seemed more plausible . |
| 17 | She moved with natural grace , gliding between the tables , approaching customers who showed an interest to give them an extra twirl , unbuttoning the little figure-hugging jacket and posing with her hand on her waist , rucking up the jacket slightly to display the blouse underneath as she had seen the professional models do . |
| 18 | Suddenly I found myself moving forward and I crouched a little as I had seen the experts do in films . |