Example sentences of "as [pers pn] have done [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I had done several times on the journey , since I had n't entirely managed to put out of my mind the events of Uulaa and my suspicions . |
| 2 | As long as I 've done two tapes minimum |
| 3 | If you have ever stood on a sheep farmer 's hillside , as I have done many times in the Western Highlands of Scotland , and listened to the sheep calling to ( communicating with ) each other , you will immediately notice how their intonations are all different , as indeed are their faces . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Her concern , until then , had always been that Time ( or the house ) would prevent him from reaching her , stop them from being able to meet , remove the opportunity , once and for all , for her to feel again as she had done last night , leaving her for ever empty and unsatisfied . |
| 6 | We will continue to reduce tax burdens on business , as we have done this year for the motor industry , whenever it is possible to do so . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The procedural issues which inflamed the politicians left most voters cold , as they had done seventeen years earlier in the referendum campaign of 1945 . |
| 9 | after fighting one another for months in the House of Commons , were ready to meet together under the roof of the Sovereign and sink their own differences for a common good and arrange as they had done this morning for a National Government to meet one of the gravest crises that the British Empire had yet been asked to face . |
| 10 | Her logical mind accepted this possibility , as it had done countless times before , but she did n't think her brother would ever have considered suicide . |
| 11 | The difficulty with all this is cost as , despite the Lands Tribunal decision , there is nothing to prevent the Capital Taxes Office from raising a new demand based on fresh grounds , as it has done many times during the past 11 years . |
| 12 | Jonathon knew he had less than two miles to go and that his faithful horse would trudge him home as he had done many times before . |
| 13 | So was the ghostly passenger preparing to embark on another train journey as he had done many times during his life on earth ? |
| 14 | Billy could easily have ferried her across the river in his boat , as he had done many times before . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Much as he had done seven times before . |
| 18 | Characteristically , however , Chapman was to learn from the defeat , just as he had done twenty years before after Northampton 's defeat by Norwich . |
| 19 | Looping the loop at a Manchester airshow as he 'd done many times before in the vintage Spitfire … pilot David Moore from Horsley near Stroud misjudged the manoeuvere . |