Example sentences of "as [pron] had [adv] done " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should n't think this boring as I had sometimes done before . |
| 2 | She began to regard herself as she had not done before , and what she saw she no longer understood at all . |
| 3 | And she hugged him tight , tight , as she had not done since he was much younger and liked to squeeze her back until she protested that she could n't breathe . |
| 4 | She called her affirmatives and gasped , clutching him tight as she had not done in years . |
| 5 | This young girl enjoyed mixing with others her own age , as she had not done so before now . |
| 6 | AT1 said that she did not notice any difference in this regard but was nevertheless glad of the opportunity which the review had afforded to meet the Head personally , as she had not done so since her interview on appointment some years previously . |
| 7 | Every night she greased her face , whited everything out and redrew it just as she had always done ; a heavy coat of pale powder , black mascara , black eyeliner , heavily pencilled black eyebrows , and then , finally , her famous scarlet lips , always perfect , always done in the same shade , Rouge Extrême . |
| 8 | For us it is a symbol of acceptance , for from that day on Nanny referred to Shanti as ‘ my granddaughter ’ and treated her exactly as she had always done the others . |
| 9 | She only thought of herself , as she had always done . |
| 10 | She had promised to take me sailing , and Paula had let her borrow the boat for a few hours , as she had often done before . |
| 11 | Anthony introduced Comfort , who immediately started talking in fluent , fast Italian , which made Julia feel as inadequate and insular as she had ever done at Comfort 's university parties . |
| 12 | I approached the service from the point of view of the consumer , as we had already done to good effect with the opticians . |
| 13 | The further the office , the party and the seats of government were removed from the home and family influence , the less able were women to exercise influence upon the male public world as they had formerly done . |
| 14 | IBM and Microsoft developed OS/2 together , as they had previously done with DOS , but sales did not go well — the latest claim from IBM is one million copies sold . |
| 15 | remain in Japan even after the Peace Treaty , since the Japanese police were too few and their armament inadequate to maintain public order should the Communists attempt an offensive in Asia as they had already done in Europe . |
| 16 | Her soft blue eyes hardened as they had never done before in her life and she met his gaze head-on . |
| 17 | The only inconvenience of the original interior was that the bedrooms all led into one another ( just as they had always done in houses past : passages were only deemed essential when the segregation of servants became the norm in the eighteenth century ) ; but this was overcome by making a gallery and rearranging the staircase . |
| 18 | Now , Eleanor Thorne was eighty-nine years old , and her conversation was erratic , but Dorothea still sat with her , and for the odd fifteen or twenty minutes , and sometimes as long as an hour , they would talk , as they had always done and the present world swung temporarily into focus for the old lady , and she held on to it , like a crystal ball , firmly in her hand . |
| 19 | The people of Lewis saw no reason why they should not have their crofts and jobs as well , as they had always done since the boom days of the kelp industry . |
| 20 | Mother Francis hoped that the Community in Dublin would understand the need to make Eve feel important and part of the place as they had always done here in Knockglen . |
| 21 | It was evident in all their dealings that no matter how Marie Claire bestirred herself the maids would do things as they had always done them . |
| 22 | In 1456 Coventry negotiated freedom from tolls in Southampton , as it had already done with another port which served it , namely Bristol . |
| 23 | In tropical oceans , there is also the problem of the teredo worm , one of the lamellibranch family of boring molluscs , whose destructive vigour proved as deadly to submarine cables as it had previously done to ships ' timbers , wharves and sea dykes . |
| 24 | Not to answer the summons made matters worse , as it had always done , and particularly if it concerned a mortgage . |
| 25 | Aunt Lou 's house looked exactly as it had always done . |
| 26 | From counting for virtually nothing in positivist criminology it now seemed to count for everything , as it had originally done in classical criminology . |
| 27 | If she were to open the door perhaps the blackness would be out there now , ready to swallow her , as it had almost done on that previous occasion ; or would she wander endlessly in a limbo of greyness , forever trapped between Johnny 's time and her own ? |
| 28 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 29 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 30 | In November 1259 the barons in Council raised the annual salary of the Justice of the Forests south of Trent from 100 to 200 marks a year , and his colleague for the northern forests was in August 1260 granted an annual salary of 60 marks , instead of having to pay an annual farm of the same sum as he had previously done . |