Example sentences of "be [v-ing] as [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Though her heart was thumping as it had then , no one but herself would ever know it . |
| 5 | But for once he believed that he was seeing as he had striven all his life to see … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 8 | It was going as they had planned . |
| 9 | Advisedly or otherwise , the Regent Douglas was doing as he had part-proposed . |