Example sentences of "as [pers pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaitskell became excited at the prospect and instructed me with great firmness that as soon as I had received the ‘ discovered ’ documents I was to show them to no one but to come straight to him , so that he should be the first person to know who the culprit was or what information was available that would lead to the culprit 's identity . |
| 2 | It was inevitable that , as I had stood watching the gannets at Bempton , memories of a visit to Grassholm came flooding back . |
| 3 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
| 4 | All over the world , as I had observed on my travels for Panorama and TRI , countries which had long been administered by others were hoisting their own colours ; everywhere the idea of new-born nationhood was in the air . |
| 5 | She says of her new career that it is ‘ partly choice , but I wanted to leave school-teaching anyway as I had become disillusioned ’ . |
| 6 | Here 's money for my meat ; I would have left it on the board , so soon As I had made my meal ; and parted With prayers for the provider |
| 7 | As I had made some pretty critical remarks about the Soviet Union , at a time the war-time alliance still commanded admiration , especially among the young , he pointed out that if printed , these views would be taken by the Kremlin to be officially inspired . |
| 8 | I suppose I was surprised , maybe even a bit shocked , as I had assumed we would be spending the holiday together , laughing and drinking . |
| 9 | But I was surprised to discover on my first full day at Thornfield that Mrs Fairfax was not in fact the owner , as I had assumed , but the housekeeper , and that my new master was a Mr Rochester , who was often away from home . |
| 10 | I was not perhaps as gutless as I had assumed . |
| 11 | It was unfortunate , I thought , that at the same time as I had realised the grandeur of God I had fallen in love with a mortal , and that the two experiences should have proved to be mutually exclusive , leaving me with the sensation that I was being sundered by equal forces . |
| 12 | I am only asking for my costs of £5,500 as I had to employ a barrister myself . |
| 13 | The island ferry , as I had discovered , sailed three times a week on Mondays , Wednesdays and Saturdays ; it went from Oban to Tobermory on the Isle of Mull , and then called at Moila on its way to Coll and Tiree . |
| 14 | I thereupon asked Howard Samuel whether he would grant to the Labour Party a licence for the extract , as I had discovered from the contract that the quotation rights were vested in the publisher . |
| 15 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 16 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 17 | A gut-churning premonition had hit me , the horrific conviction that the relics would have moved , just as I had moved . |
| 18 | I loathed sport well into my teens ; a distinct disadvantage , as I had decided I wanted to be an Officer in the Parachute Regiment or the Royal Marines , a vocation which demanded exceptional physical fitness and courage , qualities I did n't possess . |
| 19 | I found the door unlocked as I had given my master the key before I left ; the light was poor but I could see nothing had been disturbed so lay down on the bed , pulling the curtains around me . |
| 20 | She showed no inclination to argue further , but lay back in her chair , smiling at Robert , and I saw that it was not , as I had believed , understanding and acceptance that her smile revealed , not that their marriage was so secure it could sustain itself in the face of any disagreement , but that Lili could afford to be pleasant because she had no scruples . |
| 21 | I decided to visit the Marines that evening and , after thanking Mick for his hospitality , made my way back to the orchard , thinking that as I had visited each Commando unit each day when we were in England , why not now that we were in France ? |
| 22 | It came as a shock as I had visited Jack two weeks earlier , having travelled down to Shergold Guitars in Romford to collect my Burns Marvin after Jack had refurbished it for me . |
| 23 | " As soon as I had realized what he had said I returned home again immediately . " |
| 24 | Nor did lie think this a bad thing since , as I had emphasised before , he hail little love for Coalitions . |
| 25 | I had also never before been without a pattern to the future , and I was starting to realize that it might not all be quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 26 | ‘ I hoped that the atmosphere backstage would n't be as I had imagined , which was the typical Manchester Iciness . |
| 27 | Getting into the Bristol Cancer Help Centre as a resident patient was n't quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 28 | And yes , that fireplace gave me as much pleasure always as I had imagined it would on first sight . |
| 29 | It occurred to me that as I had met nobody as I walked through the gate and went upstairs , there was no need to encounter anyone now , going down , and I moved my chair from the window . |
| 30 | This was good news , as I had met him after a children 's charity evening and had found him shy , attractive and funny . |