Example sentences of "as she have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As she sat over a pot of tea in a quiet café she reminded herself that it was really expecting too much to find a flat as quickly as she had landed a job . |
| 32 | And she had chosen to die as she had lived . |
| 33 | As quietly and uncomplainingly as she had lived she slipped away in her sleep at two o'clock in the morning of 21 October . |
| 34 | Mrs Venables ' cake was — as she had said — a perfect coffee gâteau , smoothly frosted in caramel , with three cherries on the top . |
| 35 | As soon as she had said it she knew that it was true and that made her sadder and crosser . |
| 36 | In any case the blame , as she had said , was most certainly Zacco 's . |
| 37 | ‘ Monsieur le baron , ’ she said , as she had said to him once before . |
| 38 | The sounds were plaintive , resonant , doom-laden as those of a passing-bell , and she recognized even then — though she could not have found words to express it — that it would turn out thus , just as she had said . |
| 39 | Just as she had said , the porter 's wife opened up the main door and the inner gate from her room and then poked her head out . |
| 40 | As she had said , there was really nothing left here but the view , and the girls were exclaiming over it now , talking eagerly , and pointing . |
| 41 | Quite outstanding , ’ she said , as she had said before . |
| 42 | Flavia enjoyed the paper-games and , as she had said , the dancing ; she went nearly as often as she was asked ( Better not hang about too much in the house on the bay ) ; she enjoyed the company … moderately . |
| 43 | She always wanted him to tell her where he came from because she said , as she had said to Creggan on his first night , that for an eagle to survive the first thing he must know is where he comes from , and he must not forget his memories however distant they may be . |
| 44 | He had helped one woman with a pushchair and screaming infant on to a bus earlier , and she had gripped his hand tightly in hers as she had said thank you . |
| 45 | As she had said the pot was a present she did not stop the woman gift-wrapping it in lavish style . |
| 46 | I wondered if she was now ‘ beyond us all ’ , as she had said , and hoped that her soul had found a home with God . |
| 47 | " Do n't let the bugs bite " She said the words without thinking , just as she had said them almost every night of her life . |
| 48 | She kicked herself as soon as she had said it . |
| 49 | It was too confrontational , she realised as soon as she had said it , seeing something spark in his eyes , the instinctive , age-old masculine response to the sort of rejection men would always interpret as a challenge . |
| 50 | As she had said to Julie when she 'd phoned her yesterday , even when returning to the office from a short holiday , in the fast-moving world of the City of London you could never be entirely sure that your desk would still be there ! |
| 51 | As soon as she had gone Phil was out of bed again and , with a half-fearful look at Arty , put on his dressing gown and sauntered out to spread the news . |
| 52 | Terence had tried to talk to her as she had gone to her car , then the fat one had cat-called like a teenage oaf . |
| 53 | Her grandfather 's anger at her late return from Bristol — especially as she had gone there with Marshall — had been explosive . |
| 54 | She was only half-committed to the new idea herself , not nearly as sure about it as she had made out to Nails — heaven knows how they would fit in all that training , teaching three boys to ride ! |
| 55 | His mother had been crying as she had rifled the house for money for him , and as she had made sandwiches to put in greaseproof paper because it would be dangerous for him to stop at cafés on his way to the airport . |
| 56 | As soon as she had announced this fact , she pushed past him roughly , on her way to the kitchen . |
| 57 | Dalgliesh thanked her and told her that she could go home as soon as she had checked with Detective-Sergeant Reynolds in the library that he had all the necessary information about where she had spent the previous evening . |
| 58 | Somehow his mother could shut out the unpleasant from her mind as if it had never existed and she had shut out the Worm as successfully as she had shut out everything else . |
| 59 | Ianthe had always wanted a house of her own and as soon as she had shut the door behind her she forgot the lonely homecoming in the pleasure she still felt at seeing her furniture and possessions in their new setting . |
| 60 | It drove Camille mad : she would lose her temper as she had lost it when still in her pram and would wave her limbs and bellow while furious tears fell to collect under her chin . |