Example sentences of "as [pron] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We both started to laugh as I had the last few words on the subject . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Our leader was soon grunting in a semi layback posture , and as I had the appropriate page open , I could not resist reading out loud : ‘ … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As soon as I had the door closed and my jacket off I found a road atlas and turned to the Cambridge area . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , anyway … the last thing I wanted to do was to get involved in a fight — especially as I had the children with me . |
| 8 | She touched his shoulder as she had the day before . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | She consumed the contents quickly before replacing it as she had the box . |
| 12 | As property prices in London were moving upwards , Eva 's shrewd plan was to decorate the flat as we had the last house , sell at a profit , and move on . |
| 13 | We had also managed to scrounge plenty of drink and , as we had the whole theatre to ourselves , we played endless games of paper chase and treasure hunt in and out of the stalls and the boxes and the circle . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I did not succeed in evading the notice of either of them as they had the advantage of knowing what would come next . |
| 16 | The Maronite Christian parties boycotted the third round , as they had the previous two rounds . |
| 17 | ( c. 1 ) Writing shortly after Charles 's death , he believed that a new generation of both kings and nobles could preserve the realm so long as they had the right personal qualities . |
| 18 | Same as they had the football teams . |
| 19 | This was not true , but in a largely illiterate society the snowball effect of malicious rumours worried the Bolsheviks , as it had the Tsarist officials before them . |
| 20 | Miss Watson 's appearance when she opened the side door alarmed Miss Fogerty quite as much as it had the small boy . |
| 21 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |
| 22 | It was more adaptable and was less expensive as it had the quality of being effective , whether richly ornamented or not . |
| 23 | If October were to bring its usual weather , as indicated by the records , and as it had the previous year on the Somme , conditions would be almost beyond endurance and attack impossible . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The voice held the same polite incredulity as it had the first time . |
| 27 | It moved in the same half — crouched , shambling run as it had the night before , quietly , stealthily , purposefully . |
| 28 | The wind grabbed him under the arms and flipped him outwards and back as it had the torn raven banner already . |
| 29 | She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time . |
| 30 | 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 . |