Example sentences of "exactly as [pron] [verb] done " in BNC.
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| 1 | His reactions affected me exactly as hers had done . |
| 2 | Thomas looked at them all , and then at Simon , who was now a small figure and in another sense no longer monstrous , because he was walking exactly as he had done when he was a very young child and most moving to Thomas , with his hands in his pockets and his back arched . |
| 3 | Curtis came in wearing a shabby , fawn mackintosh and looking exactly as he had done the night before . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And even the apparent libertine , if Walter 's My Secret Life is in any way an accurate chronicle , had his own anxieties born of sexual discretion : ‘ Does every man kiss , coax , hint smuttily , then talk bawdily , snatch a feel , smell his fingers , assault and win , exactly as I have done ? ’ |
| 6 | The two and a half second ticking sequence sounded exactly as it had done in the sonar room . |
| 7 | The place appears exactly as it has done through the ages , the only signs of man 's intrusion being a ruined bothy , an insecure footbridge and the thin track worn by hardy walkers . |