Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only activity Gerald had forbidden her was the embroidery of tapestry , which he had declared too menial an occupation for a young lady of her intelligence , preferring her to accompany him on his visits to neighbouring landlords as she had done that day . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She was in flight from it — as she had imagined that woman in the rain in flight . |
| 4 | But assumptions , as she 'd discovered that day , could be dangerous , and Isabelle had never actually stated where she was born . |
| 5 | Everything in Fabia cried out as she started to panic that Ven might yet hit on the truth of her love for him . |
| 6 | She closed her eyes , leaning back against her remaining pillow as she tried to recall that aspect of her childhood . |
| 7 | It continued to engage her thoughts as she sat knitting that afternoon . |
| 8 | The words rang again in Sally-Anne 's head as they had done that afternoon in her aunt 's pretty drawing-room once Mrs Greville had gone . |
| 9 | On the one hand there was the need to allow individual divergences from the hierarchy and to leave teachers some freedom to make their own contribution to the curriculum — a goal often repeated by all Secretaries of State as they sought to limit that freedom . |
| 10 | Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine . |
| 11 | As he was getting into the train , Jordi smiled and shrugged as he had done that night in Valladolid when the secret police had led him away . |
| 12 | He would stand in the corridor which ran along past the junior classrooms , as he had done that morning , and listen to the lessons being given . |
| 13 | Half Moon Crescent , he had repeated and repeated to himself as he 'd walked that night . |