Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] as they [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Otherwise it may be difficult to appreciate how very natural it is that things should have turned out as they did . )
2 should have gone soon as they got out of work .
3 And if they really were the murderers , would they have been so foolish , after leaving Ayr and with Ross 's money in the car , to have picked up as they did two girls who had been stranded by their boy friends , and taken them to their homes in Kilmarnock ?
4 Afterwards liberal deputies expressed their relief that things had turned out as they had , while hardliners were correspondingly downcast .
5 Tim , she was told , had turned back as they neared the café , saying he would come later .
6 Not wanting anyone to see her dress from behind — the hem had come undone and she was n't wearing stockings — she had hung back as they came through the doors of the Grill Room .
7 She walked up the stone stairs to the sound of the scratchy long-playing record , highlights from Turandot , which she had put on as they had sat down for dinner .
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