Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm Foxes in the Garden with the R S P C A photos I had rejected yesterday as well , so that was a good day . |
| 2 | Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew I had to get out as the whole car was on fire . |
| 4 | I had woken up as the ferry was docking , feeling bad-breathed and half drunk , and had walked off the ramp , shown my passport at customs and asked where the police station was . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She was thinking about a telephone call which she had answered just as she was about to leave the house . |
| 7 | She had walked in as she talked , so he assumed the offer to be turned away was her form of politeness . |
| 8 | There , for 20 years , she had watched helplessly as that country 's wildlife was systematically hunted to extinction . |
| 9 | Eager to see Bella , she had got up as soon as she was awake , although it was her usual habit to lie , for twenty minutes or so , drowsy , cocooned in her warm bed , entertaining herself with fantasies . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had to step back as he grabbed his coat . |
| 12 | We had to pause awhile as the body of a suicide , dragged by the feet , was taken by city bailiffs to be dumped in the city ditch . |
| 13 | We walked out and staggered back to our beds , pushing out the dummies we had left there as decoys , using rolled up overcoats and our pyjamas . |
| 14 | Nobody knew what legal matters they had to sort out as they were spied from Martindale 's Gate traversing the shrubbery paths of The Hall in deep conversation , and they were rarely seen in company in the village except on an occasional outing together to buy postage stamps . |
| 15 | I did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave . |
| 16 | It had sounded almost as though the tunnel itself were enjoying some deeper , darker joke whose significance not even his father had fully understood . |
| 17 | It looked like a small , run-down Victorian railway hotel , which was fine , really , because that is what it had started off as , some time round the middle of the last century in an age of soaring optimism when all things seemed possible , or at least profitable , even the commercial success of a travellers ' rest beside a branch line in the middle of nowhere . |
| 18 | Molly 's sleep had been deep and dreamless but she woke up early , saw Hugh unconscious beside her and replaced the sheet he had kicked away as she might cover one of the children . |
| 19 | He continued up the hill , and she went on down ; but a few paces further on she stopped and looked back , and it was at that precise moment that it happened , because he had turned back as well and for a few moments they looked longingly at each other , each tongue-tied , but each sure , now , of the other 's feelings . |
| 20 | He had joined up as Air Crew , and for several weeks had walked around proudly with the white flash in his cap , denoting that he had been selected for flying . |
| 21 | He had gone up as usual to turn Willie 's lamp down and had found him sitting up in bed with one of his library books lying open on his knees . |
| 22 | And he walked away from the manor as though he had arrived there as empty-handed , half-naked and alone as when he left . |
| 23 | He had come here as she guessed he would . |
| 24 | And in the h other half , of the park , them had come down as well do you see . |