Example sentences of "as she [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jilly Jonathan was sitting just as she had been ever since they had come out on to the terrace . |
| 2 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 3 | She was nervous before stepping onto the set of Delinquents , just as she had been all those years ago when she did the rehearsals for The Henderson Kids . |
| 4 | She had hinted darkly that Wilson herself must be to blame , that she must have been weak , must not have written plain enough and as she had been instructed . |
| 5 | Eileen Riddrie had proudly shown it to her the previous week , as she had been given it that very day for her birthday . |
| 6 | A few seconds later Susan came bursting in as she had been upstairs when she 'd heard Maggie 's voice . |
| 7 | Mrs Carr had good reason to take such a stance as she had been born without arms . |
| 8 | The potty training restarted and then after 6 months she was re-established on cows milk starting with plain yogurt ( just as she had been during weaning . ) ’ |
| 9 | The tiles around Virginia 's bedroom fire-place , with the central motif of sailing boat and lighthouse , were designed especially by Vanessa , moved as she had been by her sister 's novel , To the Lighthouse , which memorialised their childhood summers at St Ives in Cornwall . |
| 10 | The examination papers written in Victoria 's large , even script were considered adequate ; her interview was unexceptional , although the examiners at Girton College recognised her at once as she had been universally described by all who knew her : an extremely pleasant girl of excellent character . |
| 11 | Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider . |
| 12 | Just as she had been a conscientious dancer , she now became an equally conscientious needlewoman . |
| 13 | Small things , but important , the little touches that were typical of Sally and which made it possible to feel charity — and love — for her when she was fussy or critical or just plain annoying as she had been when Harriet had arrived without warning this afternoon . |
| 14 | Unlike Pete he smelled nice — Sally thought it was Old Spice — and when he pressed his hips against hers she was excited by the sensations it aroused , not revolted as she had been with the Teddy Boy at the youth club dance . |
| 15 | She would be now , as she had been all that day , out praying for his soul . |
| 16 | She left him confused , just as she had been left confused . |
| 17 | Another discovered she had toothache one evening as she had been clenching her teeth all afternoon ! |
| 18 | She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick . |
| 19 | Although , as for this last speculation , Harriet could not help thinking that if Liza was still as distressed as she had been at home , she would have been even more likely to let her mother know , for she had never before been one to suffer in silence . |
| 20 | She was no longer trembling , as she had been a minute ago . |
| 21 | Mary Rose was a kind and simple woman , in awe of her husband , as she had been of her father , as she was of her parish priest . |
| 22 | Which was , she decided , the whole trouble with Ardneavie and Omega and the strangeness of life in the Royal Navy , pitched into it feet first as she had been . |
| 23 | She would n't be as easy to vanquish as she had been outside the Feelgood Saloon . |
| 24 | He remembered their girl as she had been when he first had her through the system in Denver . |
| 25 | Again , she was all alone , as she had been after her father 's death , and after Spanish Fork . |
| 26 | At first appraisal , Great Britain was , in 1914 , undisputed mistress of the seas , as she had been since 1805 when Admiral Lord Nelson destroyed the combined Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar . |
| 27 | Great Britain still had great industrial resources : there were specialized skills available among her workers , she still had huge supplies of her excellent coal , she had opened up new markets as fast as she had been pursued into her old ones by her competitors , and she had an enormous income from investments overseas and from the services which she supplied — in transport , banking and insurance , for example — to the rest of the world . |
| 28 | She prayed steadily , all those seventeen years , for guidance , for confirmation that she was still fulfilling divine purpose , and was only interrupted at last by her mother 's voice , demanding in a querulous letter that Isobel should come home and nurse her while she died — as she had been told she soon would — of cancer . |
| 29 | The battered red car arrived at 7pm , Maria Yackle was dressed as she had been for her previous visit , but because it was rather cold , wore a jacket made of synthetic fur as well . |
| 30 | He remembered Edith as she had been when a girl . |