Example sentences of "as she have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she had suffered one setback after another-no money , another still birth , one or other of the boys in trouble with the police — she had turned more and more to the church . |
| 2 | In 1975 she had had to give up her job as a council clerkess as she had contracted asbestos-related pleurisy and pleural thickening . |
| 3 | As soon as she had announced this fact , she pushed past him roughly , on her way to the kitchen . |
| 4 | On subsequent visits , as she had grown bolder , Ellie had started trying some of her mother 's clothes on , first over her own dress , and then over just her underclothes . |
| 5 | Her face had got rounder as she had grown older ; in her spectacles , she looked like an angry owl . |
| 6 | The only activity Gerald had forbidden her was the embroidery of tapestry , which he had declared too menial an occupation for a young lady of her intelligence , preferring her to accompany him on his visits to neighbouring landlords as she had done that day . |
| 7 | Her concern , until then , had always been that Time ( or the house ) would prevent him from reaching her , stop them from being able to meet , remove the opportunity , once and for all , for her to feel again as she had done last night , leaving her for ever empty and unsatisfied . |
| 8 | The city spread out below her looked so calm , almost as calm as she had felt such a little time before . |
| 9 | The same glorious sensation as she had felt that instant when , poised on the highest diving-board , she had known that this time she really did dare , that moment of poise and thrill before the free-fall . |
| 10 | Kylie resisted Bush 's offers of live glory because , as she had felt earlier when PWL had first extended pressure on her to go on tour , it did not fit properly into the strategy mapped out for her . |
| 11 | She was in flight from it — as she had imagined that woman in the rain in flight . |
| 12 | Just as she had imagined that concerned endearment after the fight on the riverbank . |
| 13 | She pressed it with her tongue , as she had pressed hundreds , thousands now , over twenty years ' worth of these papery discs stamped with crosses , made by nuns . |
| 14 | She reported that she had already removed , cleaned and returned them as she had caught some wool under one of them . |
| 15 | Candida Gray , Candida Gray , a name that she had known for as many years as she had known any such names ; she had not read as many of the novels as she ought to have done , but she had read one at least , and that one she actually remembered . |
| 16 | There would be no clues , no fingerprints , nothing to lead the police to them , but she knew who they were , just as she had known last night who had wrecked her car . |
| 17 | But assumptions , as she 'd discovered that day , could be dangerous , and Isabelle had never actually stated where she was born . |
| 18 | You always knew when a child was lying , by the light in the child 's eyes , as she 'd discovered twenty-seven years ago with her own Winnie . |
| 19 | And Joanna 's bones have strengthened naturally as she has grown older . |
| 20 | Her taste has changed as she has grown older . |