Example sentences of "as [pers pn] had do " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gave me a temporary Equity card — mind you they took it away again as soon as I had done the four weeks work . |
| 2 | I no longer saw them , indeed , as legless beings on self moving pedestals as I had done at Salisbury but from being so constantly restricted in movement it seemed that they must be incapable of movement . |
| 3 | Just as I had done before , I stumped around Clonmacnoise , surveying each ruined building or ancient cross as I came to it . |
| 4 | This was a real blow to me , as I had done well in form 5a at school and had to watch my luckier contemporaries going into the sixth form for another year with the sure prospect of getting to teacher training college , or the luckiest of them all , to university . |
| 5 | I repeated and repeated the twenty-third psalm , as I had done in so many kinds of danger before . |
| 6 | The crowd had enjoyed the race — they always appreciate it more when somebody comes through to win as I had done . |
| 7 | Buskers played in the streets ; hawkers shouted their wares ; women met and gossiped ; kids played , as I had done when younger ; and of course nothing could , or would stop Glaswegians going to a match on Saturdays , especially to a game between the ‘ old firms ’ — Rangers and Celtic — either at Hampden Park or Parkhead . |
| 8 | In a television programme networked from BBC Scotland called The Disunited Kingdom , I addressed the viewer direct as I had done in my Liberal Party general election broadcast . |
| 9 | But during the weekends I did my best to claim her attention , following her about from room to room as I had done as a small child , and chattering endlessly about life , literature and the events of the previous school-term . |
| 10 | There is only one road over the mountains and down to the desert , so it was stupid to assume — as I had done , without really thinking about it — that we should not see them again . |
| 11 | Out of school , of course , I continued my birdwatching just as I had done back in Essex , only now there was much more variety . |
| 12 | Shortly after Humber returned alone and toured the room , as I had done . |
| 13 | At last I gained the crest of a rise , and there below me stretched the sloping flat rocks , and yes , the mermaids were there , their fur dry in the sun , their bodies slick and contented , their eyes closed , enjoying the afternoon , exactly as I had done myself . |
| 14 | I sought a subject , as I had done in the past , by looking at my TV screen to see what was going on the world . |
| 15 | So I went by coach to the old town , as I had done so many times before , and walked to the forge . |
| 16 | As I had done several times on the journey , since I had n't entirely managed to put out of my mind the events of Uulaa and my suspicions . |
| 17 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 18 | Siegfried stalked around the calf house as I had done and when he returned his face was expressionless . |
| 19 | Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river . |
| 20 | You 'll have to fit yourself into other surroundings , as I had to do so often . ’ |
| 21 | Suddenly , one of the organisers called my number , I had to take off my socks and shoes as you had to do the jump in bare feet and I had to go over to get weighed again on different scales to make sure I was using the correct cord ( they were very safety conscious about every aspect of the jump ) . |
| 22 | Again you just looked at me , and I knew I had to do as you had done , so I stretched out my right hand and touched the bones , which were slightly sticky . |
| 23 | She had no time for idle gossip as she had to do all the work herself . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | And peered into his face , as she had done to him as a child , searching for signs of fever . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She was starting to look as she had done in death . |
| 29 | From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years . |
| 30 | 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 . |