Example sentences of "as she had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tessa , a keen machine knitter , was a little nervous as she had just moved from the South and was conscious of the supposed North/South divide but she found the warmest welcome . |
| 2 | She felt as if she were back in a milieu which she understood , that she had an indefinable rapport with this tall , shaggy , rather solitary figure , dressed in jeans and an open-necked shirt and , as she had just observed , running-shoes . |
| 3 | His attention had been fiercely concentrated on the back of the girl as she had slowly walked away , his blue eyes narrowed in appreciation . |
| 4 | She had reasoned that as she had already mounted the horse and walked around on it the previous day , that this time it would be easy . |
| 5 | Suddenly , she felt impatient with these worn-out illusions and she shrugged them off , casting them aside like old clothes as she had already discarded the dreams she had woven around Simon . |
| 6 | One of the great unanswered questions in my life is why Mrs Spence was going to antenatal classes that afternoon when , as she had already had one child , she presumably had a pretty good idea of what to expect . |
| 7 | Sally-Anne could see that the good doctor , as she had naughtily begun to call him , was going to take a great deal of delight in mercilessly teasing her about Mr Sands . |
| 8 | Not the result of R.A.F. manoeuvres , or the preparations for some local Air Show , as she had previously imagined . |
| 9 | Dorothy Fanshawe had forgotten who these kind though tiresome people were , just as she had again forgotten where she was . |
| 10 | By then she 'd had our second child for which I got blamed as she had n't wanted to be pregnant again . |
| 11 | He took his glasses off and put them on the table , and his eyes were dancing as she had n't seen them dance since the night he had revealed the identity of Miguelito . |
| 12 | And erm , but they decided that as she had n't drawn a horse in the National , she 'd got the n she was the nearest to a winner that they could |
| 13 | As she had n't returned for them during the week they would have to be returned to her — via Lowell . |
| 14 | She began to regard herself as she had not done before , and what she saw she no longer understood at all . |
| 15 | And she hugged him tight , tight , as she had not done since he was much younger and liked to squeeze her back until she protested that she could n't breathe . |
| 16 | She called her affirmatives and gasped , clutching him tight as she had not done in years . |
| 17 | This young girl enjoyed mixing with others her own age , as she had not done so before now . |
| 18 | AT1 said that she did not notice any difference in this regard but was nevertheless glad of the opportunity which the review had afforded to meet the Head personally , as she had not done so since her interview on appointment some years previously . |
| 19 | What a sharp , sneering face he had had , though she could not see it , as she had not seen it in the darkness of her dream . |
| 20 | Madame Gautier did not like sunlight , as she had frequently informed her young visitor . |
| 21 | Melissa was about to retort that as she had only known Bonard for three days he could hardly be described as a friend of hers , when a surprised , ‘ Well , what do you know ? ’ from Jack made them both glance round . |
| 22 | He also gave his mother 's new name , as she had recently remarried . |
| 23 | Jacqui Smale had left before Christmas as she had recently married and could not , as Laura wished , move to Wales . |
| 24 | A bit of romanticism his mistress might have abhorred , Ruth suspected , as she had hardly enamoured herself with the locals , nor they with her . |
| 25 | ‘ Younger brothers always are , ’ she replied sagely , out of deep experience , and was very pleased when , as she had half expected , Tom laughed . |
| 26 | Tears had run on his cheeks as she had never seen tears coming from an adult man before . |
| 27 | Jared Tunstall , enraged by his daughter 's cool refusal to be intimidated in any way , advanced on her , his face stern as she had never seen it before , although his business rivals would have recognised it . |
| 28 | Warned that she could only stay for a few moments , Laura had sat down quietly in a chair beside the bed , taking her cousin 's inert , pale hand and praying , as she had never prayed before , that Liz would be able to survive her ordeal . |
| 29 | She ran as she had never run before . |
| 30 | She ran as she had never run before — still clutching the shoe-parcel and the flags . |