Example sentences of "exactly as [pron] have [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life is exactly as we have created it . |
| 2 | And there at Stamford , the beautiful town that Celia Fiennes and Defoe had admired so much remained almost exactly as they had seen it : but fossilised , moribund . |
| 3 | The room was exactly as she 'd left it — shoes in the middle of the floor , the overall she wore for doing the bedrooms thrown over the back of the chair . |
| 4 | And then it occurred to Cathy that although the old man was lying exactly as she had seen him , something had changed . |
| 5 | Love with such a person , Miranda knew , would be exactly as she had imagined it : ringed with radiance , and tenderness and glamour , larger than life , more brightly-coloured , just like the movies . |
| 6 | But her radio was in place , her maps and street guide and other papers were still present although not exactly as she had left them . |
| 7 | The control room was exactly as she had left it . |
| 8 | Seen from the rear , the house was exactly as she had described it , square and imposing with a flight of elegant stone steps leading down onto the grass . |
| 9 | She knew someone 's shaking hands were on Damian 's tie , pulling it loose , pushing his dark blue jacket to the floor , but they could n't be her hands — she would n't do such a thing ; and as their hoarse breathing mingled further she realised his shirt was completely unbuttoned and that she was staring at his bare chest and it was exactly as she had known it would be . |
| 10 | He probably would n't be very interested in what she had to say , but at least he would be near her and she could dwell upon the handsome face which was exactly as she had remembered it . |
| 11 | She had forgotten or erased his face , and so she saw it through a blur , but his body was naked , exactly as she had remembered it , golden-white , muscular and slender , the black mass at the groin and out of it the penis rising dark amber-red . |
| 12 | He had had what all men wanted , exactly as he had wanted it . |
| 13 | He told it , exactly as he had seen it , not concealing that there were curious and doubtful points in it which even witnessing could not make plain . |
| 14 | It had been returned to him almost exactly as he had sent it , with no covering letter or word of explanation . |
| 15 | He had treated her exactly as he 'd said he would , and not even for an instant had Kate had even a bat 's twinkling that he thought of her as an attractive woman . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |
| 18 | But then I thought , Why would they replace the barrier exactly as I had left it ? |
| 19 | And then , for the first time ever in my life , I what I normally do is I have sort of maybe some questions that I definitely pre-plan and if I 'm lucky one or two of them , and this paper all three of my prepared questions actually came up exactly as I 'd worded them , or near enough . |
| 20 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 21 | The relics were exactly as I 'd left them , inside the hexagram , nothing had changed . |
| 22 | If I go , If I could just to , to bring go , right back to a point you made much earlier coming off is exactly as you 've described it for most people |