Example sentences of "as [pers pn] had the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as soon as I had the door shut I began to ransack the flat for the sheet music I keep for special occasions such as Christmas , bar mitzvahs , weddings and so on . |
| 2 | As soon as I had the door closed and my jacket off I found a road atlas and turned to the Cambridge area . |
| 3 | As soon as I had the diet ready for issue at the classes , Pat was first on my mental list of people who I hoped would particularly benefit . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , anyway … the last thing I wanted to do was to get involved in a fight — especially as I had the children with me . |
| 5 | I pulled the short straw and could not drink as I had the job of getting everyone up in the morning and doing the first two hours driving . |
| 6 | She touched his shoulder as she had the day before . |
| 7 | There she could call for any food or liquor she wanted , so long as she had the wherewithal to pay the inflated prices demanded by the Sponging House keeper . |
| 8 | ‘ As soon as she had the call to go to the scene , adrenalin would have started pouring into her bloodstream increasing her heart rate and alertness , ’ she said . |
| 9 | She consumed the contents quickly before replacing it as she had the box . |
| 10 | I did not succeed in evading the notice of either of them as they had the advantage of knowing what would come next . |
| 11 | He would be away two weeks : when he returned , he told Grégoire , they would go away on holiday , to the sea perhaps , as they had the year before . |
| 12 | Same as they had the football teams . |
| 13 | It moved in the same half — crouched , shambling run as it had the night before , quietly , stealthily , purposefully . |
| 14 | The fire was not lit and the room did n't seem as cheerful and welcoming as it had the night before ; they broke their fast quickly on warm oat cakes and mulled wine , saddled their horses and rode back along the track to the highway . |
| 15 | It was more adaptable and was less expensive as it had the quality of being effective , whether richly ornamented or not . |
| 16 | Jimmy Johnson sank his teeth into the family 's bull terrier as it had the arm of an 11-year-old boy locked in its jaws . |
| 17 | There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( CI No 1,697 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement . |
| 18 | There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( UX No 39 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement . |
| 19 | Just as he had the ability to compartmentalize his life , so he also seemed able to slough off the weight of the past and begin again . |
| 20 | He felt just as strongly as he had the night before . |
| 21 | So long as he had the support of Sir Rufus Stone , he could thumb his nose at Cotton . |
| 22 | As soon as he had the paper in his hand the door slammed again . |
| 23 | Locke 's friends commended him for demolishing Proast 's ecclesiastical regime as effectively as he had the absolutist civil polity of Sir Robert Filmer [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | He might not love Didi , but he intended to marry her as soon as he had the ring , and he 'd only persuaded her to return to New York to facilitate matters and save a possible clash … |
| 25 | Occasionally , such a player realises this and finds he has the nerve to win the tournament , just as he had the nerve to win the tournament that took him to Augusta in the first place . |
| 26 | He did not enjoy it as he had the fishing that had been so much a part of his life on La Blanquilla . |