Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] as [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of the women , young girls for the most part , came overland as I had , packed in steamers and trains like the fish they were to gut . |
| 2 | But in the short run , as John Donne observed , men lived and believed just as they had before . |
| 3 | I have a grand-niece , my brother 's granddaughter , and two Saturdays ago I went to see her dance in Denver — and she danced just as I 've always wanted to dance . ’ |
| 4 | The phone rang just as she had climbed into the bath . |
| 5 | He looked exactly as he had on the day of their last meeting , the day of his departure to the United States : calm yet concerned , sensitive yet restrained , the perfect model of the thinking politician . |
| 6 | Aunt Lou 's house looked exactly as it had always done . |
| 7 | He reacted exactly as I had expected : |
| 8 | I did exactly as I had promised . |
| 9 | The two and a half second ticking sequence sounded exactly as it had done in the sonar room . |
| 10 | But even there they were not to be left alone , and after the last campaign the conquest ended ignominiously as it had begun with the summary execution of Tupac Amaru , thirty-nine years after Atahualpa , his uncle . |