Example sentences of "as she have [vb pp] before " in BNC.
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1 | Quite outstanding , ’ she said , as she had said before . |
2 | 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 . ’ |
3 | She began to move through the house as she had done before , opening doors , now trying to force doors which would not open . |
4 | She sat , simply and naturally as she had done before . |
5 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
6 | She imagined he was going to make a move towards her , but what he did was to hitch the child closer to him until his face was almost pressed against his own and then he smiled a smile that widened his full lips but , as she had seen before , did not separate his teeth . |
7 | Confronted with his certainty so much stronger than her own , disorientation and alienation defusing lack of desire , she gives in as she has done before . |