Example sentences of "as [noun prp] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , his setting out the poet 's connection with the primitive gave him the status of a societal elder , one who , lecturing in America , would pronounce on literature and society as Arnold had done less than fifty years before him . |
| 2 | Then there was the question of the paternity of Mrs Clancy 's last child : Mr Clancy had only just returned from Egypt after a two-year posting , and — as Peony had pointed out — the child was only 14 months old . |
| 3 | As Ben had pointed out last night , his Annie was scurrying between the looms when she was seven , and barefoot . |
| 4 | As soon as Dennis had roared off towards the offices of Osiris Management Services I strolled down Ramillies Drive to the Parsonage and rang the bell . |
| 5 | He went on to demonstrate , as Hitchcock had done earlier , just what a British international film industry would look like . |
| 6 | As Benny had walked down the town , Mr Kennedy called her into the chemist . |
| 7 | However , even persons as brash as Heath had to recognise continually that the majority was uneasy and dangerous and much effort was expended in monitoring it and in camouflaging the government 's Irish unification objective from the man-in-the-street who , initially , was almost incapable of believing that a British government was endeavouring to cede its own subjects to a foreign power . |
| 8 | Laura had muttered as Ross had picked up their suitcases . |
| 9 | British vital interests might not necessarily coincide with those of the Americans as Suez had shown all too clearly . |
| 10 | He had driven up to collect his superior from the Carabinieri post where he and his rescuers had returned as soon as Zen had recovered enough to assure the sergeant that he did n't need to call an ambulance . |
| 11 | He looked up , as Kemble had looked up , and then picked off each of the attendant five with a dimpled smile which impelled them to treasure his grand simplicity and unaffected openness . |
| 12 | She had always been touched with religion , but as Rory had grown out of boyhood into his teens , she had been content to let him follow down his father 's road to politely concealed indifference . |
| 13 | It seemed unlikely that he could be as devastated by the death of a single patient as Julia had made out in her letters , but then she had never really understood him . |
| 14 | As Adele had pointed out , even men of integrity could behave differently when it came to women . |
| 15 | As Blanche had decided before , the effect-now he was mature was not unsightly . |
| 16 | Namely , that the Spirit acts for , and in , and against men in precisely the same way as Jesus had done when on earth . |
| 17 | Just as Jesus had come forth from the Father into the world as the Father 's gift to mankind , so it is with the Paraclete ( 5:43,16:28 , 3:16f ) . |
| 18 | Chen Chang-wen , secretary-general of the SEF , and Tang Shubei , deputy director of the TAO , agreed that formal talks on the principle of " one China " would be held early in 1992 , as soon as China had set up a non-governmental counterpart to the SEF . |
| 19 | However , just as Norman had got up and down from another bunker for his last round of 69 , so did Beck , firmly sinking a putt of six feet as the Australian looked on and reflected on what might have been . |
| 20 | Might it not be better to bow to the inevitable , as Tocqueville had suggested long before , and accept democracy in its limited representative forms as a framework within which as much as possible of the traditional structure of power and values should be preserved ? |
| 21 | That was the logic of his moralism , as Canning had pointed out ; he met the charge of dealing in moral abstractions by recognising that slavery had damaged its victims and ‘ brutalized their minds ’ . |
| 22 | Afterwards he went by way of St Basil 's Terrace , looking as Sophia had done earlier at the newly done up houses with their prettily painted front doors and rather self-conscious window-boxes and bay trees in tubs , when a woman 's voice called out behind him , ‘ Good evening vicar — been getting fish for pussy ? ’ |
| 23 | He learned quickly — a vital quality , as Roosevelt had confided little in his Vice-President , and Truman knew few details of government policy . |
| 24 | The Eli Hoobaka group , involved in the 1985 North/Contra/CBN arms deal , were prime suspects , and the likeliest motive , as Coleman had suspected all along , was that a DEA informant in the Lebanese Forces had identified him at Eurame as a friend of Asmar 's . |
| 25 | Together with them he established the musical pre-eminence of Venice in composition and performance , as Petrucci had done half a century earlier in publishing . |
| 26 | Or that they would do as Allen had done already , dog the footsteps of the verderers , shadowing them from the cover of the forest , until they fell in with some outlaws . |
| 27 | Instinctively she shied away from that idea , and accepted then that this interview business was nowhere near as easy as Cara had made out that it would be . |
| 28 | On this basis , Lynch and Bliss were to argue , rather as Kandel had done earlier for serotonin in Aplysia , that it was presynaptic plasticity that was important for the initiation of LTP , and the postsynaptic cell was simply doing what it had to as a result of the increase in the strength of the glutamate signal it was receiving . |
| 29 | And so a couple of hours later , it was Burkett who drove the coach and four to the top of Dunmail Raise while Hope and Sylvia walked behind to spare the horses the effort , even though , as Burkett had pointed out , two passengers were light work for four horses . |
| 30 | As soon as Louise had rung off she removed the cushion and opened the chest . |