Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [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 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 .
7 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 .
8 Gradually , during the decade , they began to relax it so as to admit more and more controversial confessions .
9 They had touched hers briefly as he had helped her belt herself in .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 He felt he had done it absolutely as best he could and there was no way he could repeat the emotion .
14 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 .
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