Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd booked him just as his catchphrases were being quoted by the entire nation , and all because Julie 's mortgage broker knew someone who knew his phone number and he had agreed to appear . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Luke had brought her home as he had intended . |
| 6 | They had touched hers briefly as he had helped her belt herself in . |
| 7 | This had pleased him mightily as his admiration for Lady Porter was nearly as great as that for Margaret Thatcher , and , in consequence , his attitude to Grunte had warmed . |