Example sentences of "as [pron] had [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |
| 2 | I read , just as I had at the Moroneys , yet with the single difference in this case there was a young man , Aoin O'Heiher , a nephew of Liam O'Flaherty and he introduced me to writers like Eliot and Joyce . |
| 3 | I found it interesting to take one person , say the rector , Charles Henstock , and make him the chief character in one book and follow his fortunes , as I had in the first book about the great Mrs Curdle . |
| 4 | If you leave , if you leave let's say if you get caught and sent back then you 're gon na get back you know twice as much as you had for the reason for leaving . |
| 5 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 6 | She glanced downwards , just exactly as she had on the day I 'd come for the room . |
| 7 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 8 | Sycorax no longer leaked whatever liquids or foods she was able to consume , as she had during the worst of her fever , and Ariel could prop her up into a sitting position , and then , presenting her shoulders to her , go down on one knee to hoist her piggy-back and carry her to the privy in the forest a few minutes ' walk away . |
| 9 | Mrs Thatcher expressed confidence that she would win and declared again , as she had at the outset , that even if she did not win outright she would continue to a second ballot no matter how narrow the margin of her majority over Heseltine . |
| 10 | The two strangers flanked Dorothy , making her wonder , as she had at the PopCon building , whether she could get away . |
| 11 | She was n't going to risk annoying them as she had about the color of the paint . |
| 12 | She looked , McLeish observed , as immaculate as she had in the morning , but she was pale and her eyes looked huge . |
| 13 | She wondered again , as she had in the night , why fate had sent this particular man to her . |
| 14 | Emily walked into the sitting room , let the coat fall to the floor and sat down on the couch , crossing her legs as she had in the wine bar , and watching him coolly as he stood there in the doorway . |
| 15 | Weightless with introspection she observed her hands as she had in the Big Bamboo , with their veins like injured worms — big , workaday hands — and hid them between her army-surplus thighs . |
| 16 | With Miss Poraway chattering beside her , she reflected upon all this and recalled , as she had in the night , the course of her virginal marriage . |
| 17 | He said , ‘ Perhaps I have a salvation too , ’ and his voice was so low and his look so piercing that she felt a sudden clutch of fear , just as she had in the studio . |
| 18 | Although O'Keeffe did not abandon abstractionism after 1923 , there is no question that she limited her experimentation with it , and she never again worked as expressively or freely with it as she had in the formative years of her career . |
| 19 | She was feeling exactly as she had in the old days . |
| 20 | But now she could see the charm , could read the meaning , of the observer 's role , a meaning inaccessible to a sixteen-year-old , to a thirty-year-old — for the observer was not , as she had from the vantage , the disadvantage of childhood supposed , charged with an envious and impotent malice , and consumed with a fear of imminent death : no , the observer was filled and informed with a quick and lively and long-established interest in all those that passed before , in all those that moved and circled and wheeled around , was filled with intimate connections and loving memories and hopes and concerns and prospects . |
| 21 | The mystical writings of the fifth century author who had adopted the pseudonym Dionysius the Areopagite were quite well known in Europe , even though they never had the same appeal for Europeans as they had for the Greeks . |
| 22 | The audience waved , swayed and sang along enthusiastically , as they had for the procession of artists who had preceded him . |
| 23 | the two interpretations were combined in late antiquity by the Stoics , who believed that , when the heavenly bodies return at fixed intervals of time to the same relative positions as they had at the beginning of the world , everything would be restored just as it was before and the entire cycle would be renewed in every detail . |
| 24 | ‘ It would be nice if Intel put some stakes in the ground for software developers , ’ one former i860 ISV commented , ‘ otherwise they [ Intel ] will have the same problems as they had with the i860 . ’ |
| 25 | Both parliament and the bishops were intent on ensuring they would never again suffer humiliation at the hands of the Puritans as they had during the Civil War and its aftermath . |
| 26 | We took four years to do it , partly so people would get accustomed to the idea , and it was fantastic that during those four years people worked at least as hard and as well as they had in the previous four . |
| 27 | Consumers were not choosing efficiency and manufacturers were not improving efficiency as much as they had in the past . |
| 28 | As a middle-aged bishop he was reluctant to believe that miracles still happened in his world as they had in the time of the Lord and his apostles . |
| 29 | In Danzig it was not possible for the Nazis to proceed as they had in the Reich . |
| 30 | Across the water , the loud hailers were blaring and squealing as they had in the winter , when Tzani-bey had caught and herded the Order . |