Example sentences of "as she had done " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would just have to cling to her professional integrity as she had done for fifty years , and she would , as she had always tried to , make that sufficient . |
| 2 | How could a person have written as off-handedly , as cruelly , as she had done , yet still be able to add those cryptic letters , relic of a loving bond ? |
| 3 | And peered into his face , as she had done to him as a child , searching for signs of fever . |
| 4 | And where Antoinette laid down guidelines — just as she had done when she advised her own daughter on Scottish affairs when Mary of Guise first went to Scotland — her son , the cardinal , filled in the details . |
| 5 | She was starting to look as she had done in death . |
| 6 | From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years . |
| 7 | Having seen me she had also seen that I was alone , and watching me from cover as she undoubtedly was , she would assume I was going to the pool to drink as she had done . |
| 8 | He wondered , once , if she would weep for him as she had done for Ansaldo . |
| 9 | Disappointed , her confidence evaporating , she tried turning the question round as she had done before : ‘ If you do n't want us to drive back in it , wiggle your finger . ’ |
| 10 | Hardly knowing why , she knelt beside him and put her hand on his sleeve as she had done once before . |
| 11 | Bringing him food as she had done every day of his imprisonment . |
| 12 | Then , knowing that she was safely tucked up in her own bed , she would go through the mental exercise as she had done under hypnosis and imagine herself entering that cupboard under the stairs . |
| 13 | But this time , Anne did not promise to obey her spouse , as she had done at Westminster Abbey , nearly 20 years ago . |
| 14 | She took his hand , as she had done on entering , and together they went out , leaving Asshe alone in his room . |
| 15 | Harriet would make excuses for this , rather as she had done over her late husband 's peccadilloes . |
| 16 | Although their protection was n't evident Millie was conscious of it , and there were times when she felt as hemmed in as she had done during that tortured year or more when guarded by the sisters . |
| 17 | Emily sighed heavily , no more would she sit beneath those trees reading or idling away her days so carelessly as she had done , was it only a few short weeks ago ? |
| 18 | She played with her lace handkerchief , just as she had done at Greenway Gardens . |
| 19 | In America the war was not much more decisive than its predecessor , but British successes in Europe and claims to compensation to make up for the fact that the Bourbons had secured the Spanish throne meant that Britain kept her gains instead of returning them as she had done in 1697 . |
| 20 | The only activity Gerald had forbidden her was the embroidery of tapestry , which he had declared too menial an occupation for a young lady of her intelligence , preferring her to accompany him on his visits to neighbouring landlords as she had done that day . |
| 21 | So she stood up , and pulled down her pants , and rolled on her dark-brown bathing-costume , under her dress , as she had done on seaside holidays , and then pulled that off too . |
| 22 | As she had done to her teacher yesterday . |
| 23 | As soon as they had left the room , Nancy took off her shoes and crept silently up the stairs to listen in the passage — as she had done once before . |
| 24 | He must have grown up now just as she had done . |
| 25 | In spite of the squalor of her clothes she looked almost as superb as she had done in her ravishing French dress . |
| 26 | When her moments of lucidity grew longer , Sycorax began to issue orders to Ariel , as she had done before the fire ; first , she felt an urgency , while her slow death continued , to pass on what she knew . |
| 27 | Her concern , until then , had always been that Time ( or the house ) would prevent him from reaching her , stop them from being able to meet , remove the opportunity , once and for all , for her to feel again as she had done last night , leaving her for ever empty and unsatisfied . |
| 28 | She never , as she had done in Štanjel , went to visit families on sudden impulse . |
| 29 | Emily Davison planned a public show of militancy by tying a WSPU flag to the king 's Derby horse , then making a speech on feminist issues in court , as she had done previously . |
| 30 | She giggled , as she had done when she was a child with Emma . |