Example sentences of "as we have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Gone spare , we had , as we 'd missed our bus . |
| 2 | So er says right , I 'll see you later , and just as we 'd gone away Joke got back out the car er , and she says do n't worry about the money . |
| 3 | We hoped that the US medical team whom we supposed would attend him at Wiesbaden , as we 'd heard had happened with other American hostages , would recognize that he needed a long rest . |
| 4 | Let's improvise something , as we 'd done on those remarkable nights six years ago . |
| 5 | So I gave you a topic sport or a hobby or an interest that you had and you produced a thought pattern for that just as we 'd done in the practice one with the subject of water , but then we moved on a stage further to get what are called a structured thought pattern . |
| 6 | And you 'll agree that we 're not doing that as quickly as we 'd hoped ? |
| 7 | Dysart nodded , considered the point for a moment then said : ‘ Some might say it was a sign she had n't recovered as well as we 'd hoped . ’ |
| 8 | But when I drove to London to collect her as we 'd arranged , I found that she 'd had a phone call less than an hour previously to say that Barney was ill . |
| 9 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 10 | As we 'd guessed the Jihad had nicked the negotiator . |
| 11 | She panicked immediately , as we 'd known she would . |
| 12 | Nothing , however , was quite as we 'd expected . |
| 13 | This was a anti-tank and it fired a bomb and of course we put a demonstration on firing this and then we was up the Bell Lane end and right at the top by Bailey 's farm there was a row of seats , benches , along the walk there and of course the demonstration was we 'd show them imagine those seats are tanks course we never thought in the world we should ever even get near one anyway we hit one and broke it Cos they , they , I mean they was only dummies , they were n't , I mean there was no explosive just the dummy shell you know and we , we was quite pleased with ourselves being as we 'd got an audience . |
| 14 | I let that one go as we 'd got to the bathroom and I opened the door and stood to one side to let them in . |
| 15 | I mean , if I were to sell my house now supposing somebody came galloping in along before Christmas ooh ooh I want the house on the first of Feb and they 'd come and they 'd see the house and they say yes I want it , want it , want it and it was plain that they were going to want it and we started to talk money , as soon as we 'd got the solid block of money I want one O two you er estate agent tells me I can get ninety seven between ninety five and ninety seven say they offer me ninety six |
| 16 | So that 's all in hand , erm the preachers we wanted did n't quite work out as we 'd suggested . |
| 17 | She had trapped a fellow-student at Cambridge — ‘ Brian had the longest hair in college , ’ she chirped admiringly , ‘ and as soon as we 'd graduated , we got married — for fun . ’ |
| 18 | Just as we 'd closed the window and were breathing a sigh of relief there was a loud knock on the door . |
| 19 | We would all come back to reboard the train after the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes on Wednesday , and cocktails and dinner would be served as soon as we 'd rolled out of the station . |
| 20 | ‘ On the body were discovered certain papers which made it only too clear to the marshal and me , though not to those halfwits at the frontier , thank God , that Fräulein Müller and her companion were not , as we had assumed , acting for the Austrians , but for our own High Police . ’ |
| 21 | Taylor said : ‘ Lawrie spoke to Alex and as we had lost David Batty we were quite short in mid-field . |
| 22 | She unhooked her cloak collar as we had to wait at the outer door of Marcus whilst two porters wheeled out an empty accident trolley . |
| 23 | After a brew we walked to its foot and to our delight discovered that the covering on the lower slabs was not powder as we had suspected , but acres of perfect névé and climbable anywhere . |
| 24 | As we had suspected , however , for most of the new entrants , the new category was peripheral to their main business interests and relatively few resources were committed to ensure adequate software and hardware build quality . |
| 25 | I was later puzzled that it did indeed happen as we had prayed it would . |
| 26 | The most effective prevention for leeches was not our trouser elastics , as we had believed , but a squirt of insect repellent around the tops of our boots . |
| 27 | No one spoke as we approached them , but as soon as we had gone by , a voice said , ‘ How 'd you like to be turned out of your home , Missus ? ’ |
| 28 | In fact such contact as we had consisted of nothing but bad feeling on one side ( his ) and bemusement on mine . |
| 29 | The next morning we had to pack up and leave , as we had made reservations to visit the other Cayman Islands before returning home . |
| 30 | They could forgive this young man , just as we had to forgive the man who failed to secure his trailer , or they could allow bitterness to completely neutralise everything God was doing in their lives . |