Example sentences of "as she have " 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 | Mrs Venables ' cake was — as she had said — a perfect coffee gâteau , smoothly frosted in caramel , with three cherries on the top . |
| 3 | They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake . |
| 4 | One of the great unanswered questions in my life is why Mrs Spence was going to antenatal classes that afternoon when , as she had already had one child , she presumably had a pretty good idea of what to expect . |
| 5 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 6 | He also gave his mother 's new name , as she had recently remarried . |
| 7 | She lay , as she had envisaged , on her back . |
| 8 | She touched his shoulder as she had the day before . |
| 9 | This was terrible ; he was exactly as she had envisaged . |
| 10 | She tried to remember the Hudson River as she had travelled down it by train , and the weather seemed constant although she knew it was n't . |
| 11 | As long as she had money , she could pretend she had always been here , but the prospect of destitution tested her false history in a way which made her feel it was n't her fault . |
| 12 | She had seen that instantly the next afternoon ; in Rachel 's eyes she recognised the same melting joy as she had seen in Lisa 's . |
| 13 | As soon as she had said it she knew that it was true and that made her sadder and crosser . |
| 14 | The same glorious sensation as she had felt that instant when , poised on the highest diving-board , she had known that this time she really did dare , that moment of poise and thrill before the free-fall . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Christ ! ’ she said , and the next moment , forgetful of her own safety , she had Maggie in her arms , shushing and soothing as she had never in her life done before . |
| 17 | She made Maggie kneel down and lean her head over the bathtub , just as she had when Maggie had to have her hair washed as a little child . |
| 18 | She walked along the passage and came , as she had planned , to the window which made the end wall of that floor . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ says Maggie , perfectly clear , her bell sounding again uncracked and certain as she had feared it never would . |
| 20 | She would just have to cling to her professional integrity as she had done for fifty years , and she would , as she had always tried to , make that sufficient . |
| 21 | She would just have to cling to her professional integrity as she had done for fifty years , and she would , as she had always tried to , make that sufficient . |
| 22 | Rose , with the same tact as she had brought them to the house , was careful to absent herself from these occasions as much as possible . |
| 23 | Dorothy Fanshawe had forgotten who these kind though tiresome people were , just as she had again forgotten where she was . |
| 24 | She finished her supper of pork and sauerkraut then , as she had a coffee , Herr Nordern joined her and the family and had coffee himself . |
| 25 | As soon as she had gone Phil was out of bed again and , with a half-fearful look at Arty , put on his dressing gown and sauntered out to spread the news . |
| 26 | Francesca silenced him , as she had meant to ; his wife Jane , unlike his academically gifted sister , had done the domestic science course at her school . |
| 27 | She looked , McLeish observed , as immaculate as she had in the morning , but she was pale and her eyes looked huge . |
| 28 | He watched his aunt and Miss Williams wordlessly consult each other , but knew his aunt would do as she was told ; successful solicitor though she was , she was ten years younger than Miss Williams and , as she complained , totally intimidated by her as she had not been by anyone since her late headmistress . |
| 29 | She had to go through with it now , as she had exchanged contracts on the house . |
| 30 | This was only natural as she had a reputation for secrecy . |