Example sentences of "as she have [vb pp] he " in BNC.
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1 | Because when , without so much as a scrap of protest , Ven had let go of her just now , she had started to get the idea that perhaps he had n't desired her anywhere near as much as she had wanted him . |
2 | He chatted on about them for the rest of the journey , as she had hoped he would , and she learnt that they could n't be better looked after . |
3 | Julian felt no pity , only a detached curiosity and wonder ; for he was not quite as she had imagined him , neither so malevolent nor so formidable . |
4 | The van loaded with newspapers appeared in the gates , its sinister gleaming look telling everyone to hate it ; the pickets surged forward , shouting ; and there was Jasper , as she had seen him so often , his pale face distorted with a look of abstracted and dedicated hate , his reddish crop of gleaming hair . |
5 | She , of course , had plunged , dived , tumbled , plummeted heart-first straight into desperate love for Miles as soon as she had seen him . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Was this what she had felt as soon as she had seen him — a man who would interfere with her life ? |
8 | And then it occurred to Cathy that although the old man was lying exactly as she had seen him , something had changed . |
9 | The boy Paul , as she had called him , was about three or four years of age , crinkle haired but almost white . |
10 | Tom … had n't got into his car as she had expected him to do . |
11 | The question surprised her as she had expected him to pick up on her insult . |
12 | Even when he failed to ring her later in the week , as she had commanded him to do , once he had sorted life to meet her expectations , she did not ring him . |
13 | She stood back and watched him approach the three headstones , saw him touch them as gently as she had known he would . |
14 | Jamie was as appalled as she had known he would be , his blue eyes glittering with hatred as he spoke through his teeth . |
15 | He was as she had left him . |
16 | As she had married him to get away from home , she could scarcely complain if he had . |
17 | Yes , he was every bit as good looking as she had thought he was when she had glimpsed him from the catwalk . |
18 | As soon as she 'd seen him , Grace had known he was an actor . |
19 | And she knew … she just knew he 'd wanted her , as badly as she 'd wanted him . |
20 | Why had n't she simply walked out of the theatre as soon as she 'd discovered he was in the cast ? |
21 | But as she 'd told him , dreams were rarely logical . |
22 | ‘ I love you , ’ she told him , as she 'd told him many times before . |
23 | From forcing her , by an act of love , to follow him through the world , not barefoot as she 'd accused him but in no great luxury , instead of " obliging " the man who had given her her chance . |
24 | He did n't smile , as she 'd expected he might . |
25 | If he leaves her as soon as she has accepted him , he increases his chances of getting a second female , but by leaving her unguarded he risks being cuckolded by another male . |