Example sentences of "as [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maid had retired , tossing her head at the thought of such low people as them gyppos having the sauce to interrupt the master at his supper . |
| 2 | She makes and she 's as green as them shelves . |
| 3 | Suddenly , as my shoes and socks got soaking wet and frozen , there came an excruciating pain and I cried with the intensity of it . |
| 4 | So I try an encourage them that their images and what they chose to make pictures of are as important as my ones . |
| 5 | As soon as I cut out brown bread my stomach cramps went , and all my unpleasant bowel-related symptoms went also , as well as my headaches , sore tongue and dandruff . |
| 6 | My breath rasped in my throat , and a slight light-headedness I had started to feel owing to hyperoxygenating earlier waned as my muscles took up the slack of the extra power in my blood . |
| 7 | All I was really clear about was that this time I would go on as long as my lungs and muscles would function . |
| 8 | When I took a rolled-up sample of legal tender , printed by the Royal Mint , applied one end to my right nostril , placed a restraining finger upon my left nostril , rested the other end of the said note upon a mirror or any other shiny reflective surface , upon which was displayed a slender tranche or ‘ line ’ of exotic Colombian snuff , and breathed in as deeply as my lungs would allow , I was merely relaxing in a manner by no means untypical amongst overworked show-business operatives . |
| 9 | I only put it on at night as my herons do n't seem to come in the day . |
| 10 | But whilst I regret any possible oversights , the information is at best only as good as my sources , and the history is as seen from my viewpoint . |
| 11 | PagePlus is cheap , and for single-page work like flyers , headed stationary and ads it represents good value — in my judgement , which is based on my experience as well as my prejudices . |
| 12 | And your totems have the same names as my masks , but I made those names up ! |
| 13 | As my vouchers are used up in about four months each year this means that for eight months I 'm out of pocket using our stores for the weekly shop . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , I still believed this was a reference to a rival company and , as my attackers never returned , the memory of their dark threats receded . |
| 15 | I imagined they must have been bold generals like Arsenio and Osvaldo , pathfinders like X. Ray , stalwarts like the Corporal , boys as eager and facile as my woodchucks . |
| 16 | I stopped being blind as my feet squelched over marshy ground where common spotted orchids grew to pick my way across medieval ridge-and-furrow pasture . |
| 17 | It takes me about a quarter of an hour to walk briskly to work — the maddening thing is that I do not bring so that walking is reduced rather as my feet get tired in the heat , and we have had some really hot and humid days . |
| 18 | I had to jump to the cage attached to the crane as my feet were now tied together , the man in the cage checked everything once more and then we were off . |
| 19 | It seems to me that , so far as my feelings about it are concerned , my life can be most conveniently divided into two halves : |
| 20 | It is difficult to identify this character in unsectioned skulls , but it is likely that some degree of airorhynchy is primitive for hominoids , greatly exaggerated in the pongine lineage and modified towards klinorhynchy in hominines , but as my observations lead me to believe that the bonobo is airorhynchous to some degree , it is difficult to be sure of the ancestral hominine character state . |
| 21 | Meanwhile as my visits to South Africa showed me in such a traumatic and depressing way the conditions of the majority have got worse there 's economic recession lay-offs , high inflation rate and growing violence more people have been killed in South Africa in the last two years than in any previous two years that you look at . |
| 22 | They regarded no convention , and I did not see till later that their unconvention was almost as intolerant as my parents , convention. , Helen stayed with Mrs Logan — who was awaiting a divorce — dating Edward 's first year at Lincoln . |
| 23 | I went through the whole place from top to bottom , cleaning it , polishing the furniture , and making everything just so , as my parents would have left it . |
| 24 | I was n't going to make the same mistake as my parents , forever denying themselves what they wanted now so that they could look forward to their retirement with complete peace of mind . |
| 25 | When I was a bairn I loathed and feared these dogs , and as my parents often liked to get rid of me I used to stay for short holidays with both uncles , and so I saw more of the dogs than I liked . |
| 26 | He never really accepted my Mother , who had the temerity to marry his son , but was nonetheless as overjoyed as my parents when , after four years , I was conceived . |
| 27 | However , they have told me recently that , when I was about nine or ten , they thought me a bully because I would surreptitiously pinch them or pull their hair in order to keep them in line — that is , in order to make them behave as my parents would have wished them to . |
| 28 | As my parents did n't like the idea of me going to live in the city on my own , they decided to move with me . |
| 29 | wall for a start , plus the hum you get from these bloody things , in other words basically , as my parents spend a lot of time up in their top garden in the summer time , in the sunshine and all , you get the continual hum from that bloody |
| 30 | I can not think of my own knowledge of the physical world in terms of my dispositions to behave , but only as my dispositions , construed as operating in the world of which |