Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started to write it so as to shake them . |
| 2 | I had to call her yesterday as well . |
| 3 | I wanted to keep her exactly as she was up until her retirement years ago , ’ said Mr Nelson . |
| 4 | She seemed to notice him only as he came closer , up to his chair , facing her across the small , four-legged table with the dully glowing red jewel in its centre . |
| 5 | A suspicion kept niggling at the back of her mind , but she kept pushing it away as more than she could deal with . |
| 6 | So far , she had answered everything scrupulously as it came , but the volume threatened to defeat her . |
| 7 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 8 | I 'm being silly , it 's not important , she had told herself sternly as she had brushed her teeth before hurrying down for breakfast . |
| 9 | We 'd booked him just as his catchphrases were being quoted by the entire nation , and all because Julie 's mortgage broker knew someone who knew his phone number and he had agreed to appear . |
| 10 | Gradually , during the decade , they began to relax it so as to admit more and more controversial confessions . |
| 11 | They had touched hers briefly as he had helped her belt herself in . |
| 12 | He proceeded to remind her verbally as she followed him sheepishly out through the dining-room to a wide archway that led to the terrace , though she did n't need this painful reminder of the way they 'd given in to their wild passion every evening in Seville . |
| 13 | He had treated her exactly as he 'd said he would , and not even for an instant had Kate had even a bat 's twinkling that he thought of her as an attractive woman . |
| 14 | And he had done it tactfully as well , just mentioning to one or two people who had Dierdriu 's ear that Grainne and Fergus were sometimes seen together in rather questionable circumstances . |
| 15 | He felt he had done it absolutely as best he could and there was no way he could repeat the emotion . |
| 16 | He had watched them silently as they lowered the little bush into the prepared hole , with considerable argument as to how the roots should be spread . |