Example sentences of "as they [adv] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boys took this all in good heart , as they probably had all their lives . |
| 2 | WHEN Morgan Guaranty Trust moved into new offices in whitefriars earlier this year , it was natural that CCG should move with them to their new staff restaurant , as they already had four years experience of our catering . |
| 3 | It is interesting to note that a number of new users , rather than inject , snorted heroin as they previously had done with speed and coke until they saw a television programme on Hong Kong which ‘ instructed ’ them how to chase the dragon . |
| 4 | She felt embarrassed about this when travelling around London with younger colleagues as they frequently had to resort to a taxi if no bus were available . |
| 5 | Techniques of interrogation and espionage improved and became more sophisticated every day — yet still the old methods remained as effective as they ever had . |
| 6 | As well as strengthening the role of governors , the 1986 Act made it impossible for political nominees to control governing bodies , as they often had in the past , while the 1988 Act transfers the management of most schools from local education authorities ( LEAs ) to the individual school . |
| 7 | My parents were discussing some incident in the past and , when I joined in the conversation to ask some question , they told me , as they often had on similar occasions , ‘ Of course , that was before you were born . ’ |
| 8 | Later discussing the experience with his workmates the reaction was divided , some voiced complete disbelief , some agreed as they too had had similar experiences , others just nodded agreement with Willie . |
| 9 | A penalty try would not have given the World Cup to England in itself as they still had to score again . |
| 10 | There is little sign of comital residences in civitates , nor any evidence of a comital archive being kept in a civitas ( as they still had occasionally been in seventh-century Gaul ) . |
| 11 | Church and state would work together , as they always had done , in an attempt to create a coherent image of Peru . |
| 12 | No gold , no oil , no food , no water : just Navaho , persisting as they always had done , getting drunk and stubbornly refusing to die out . |
| 13 | They played games as they always had , Consequences and Kim 's Game and a game her brother had invented called Closing Pepper Gate . |
| 14 | During that time Léonie and Madeleine went on coming to France in the school holidays , just as they always had . |
| 15 | Colborne was pulling the other way : he said there was a social revolution going on outside the palace gates ; he believed young people needed leadership as they never had needed it before , and the Prince was the one who could lead them . |
| 16 | The Farm represent everything utterly obnoxious about this country , probably not their fault as they never had a decent education , but glorifying football thuggery , provincial mediocrity and small-minded plebbiness only encourages the pettiness of our current society . |
| 17 | There had been no problem in having Eve brought up as a Catholic , since the Westwards had never wanted to know about her at all , and did n't care what faith she was raised in just as long as they never had to hear her name . |
| 18 | The chimps hunted as they never had before . |
| 19 | They decided to go north to Thorpe Old Manor and spend Christmas as if they had as few cares as they now had pence . |
| 20 | And , ironically again , the increasing specialization of Greek scholarship made it increasingly more problematic for German writers to draw on Greek literature and its topoi as wholeheartedly as they once had . |