Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 2 | They had touched hers briefly as he had helped her belt herself in . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And he had done it tactfully as well , just mentioning to one or two people who had Dierdriu 's ear that Grainne and Fergus were sometimes seen together in rather questionable circumstances . |
| 5 | He felt he had done it absolutely as best he could and there was no way he could repeat the emotion . |
| 6 | He had watched them silently as they lowered the little bush into the prepared hole , with considerable argument as to how the roots should be spread . |