Example sentences of "[pron] as [adv] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a real effort to click back to that frame of mind , which is bad because fanaticism is the true experience of pop , not discrimination and broad-mindedness — I think of the splendid devotion of all those boys and girls , who as soon as they 've got hold of the new Cure or New Order or Bunnymen record , immediately set to learning the lyrics by heart , then spend days exhaustively interpreting the Tablets From on High , struggling to establish some fit between their experience and what is actually some drunken doggerel cobbled together in a studio off-moment . |
| 2 | The discipline of the elementary school classroom is enforced on people who as soon as they leave the store , are considered full members of society with the right to vote . |
| 3 | He collected her as soon as they had both tidied their offices , McLeish maliciously enjoying Davidson 's obvious chagrin as they said good-night to him on the way out . |
| 4 | She 'd noticed the change in him as soon as they began rehearsing in the theatre . |
| 5 | A new director , responsible for a large section of the company 's business for the first time , was not in a particularly enviable position ; there were men equally as bright and considerably younger , poised ready to pull the mat from under him as soon as they saw an opportunity ; Hank could be their chance . |
| 6 | He would go and see him as soon as they got back to school and tell him everything that had happened since he had come to the school . |
| 7 | I want to get his arm off this spike to save having to cut it as soon as they 've finished the rest . |
| 8 | Most women go for it as soon as they hear that he 's a bachelor . |
| 9 | I asked them to return it as soon as they had done . ’ |
| 10 | The Tories cut it as soon as they got back in power . |
| 11 | The superintendent started eating hers as soon as they had turned out of Chester Row , peeling back the clingfilm with one hand while shuffling through the sheaf of papers she held in her lap with the other : formal , typewritten statements from people at TV London who had something relevant to say about Nicola Sharpe . |
| 12 | You 'll phone me as soon as they make contact ? ’ |
| 13 | Commander Adam Dalgliesh is coming to see me as soon as they 've finished with whatever it is they 're doing at the church . |
| 14 | It is advisable to float them as soon as they arrive in a bucket of water until you are ready to plant them . |
| 15 | And the soldiers muttered to one another as they limped and splashed back towards England that the black friars had not only sent the terror , but withdrawn it from them as soon as they turned back , and the devil their master could call it up again in an instant if they so much as looked over their shoulders . |
| 16 | She 's Miss Brady , ’ he told them as soon as they rose from their knees . |
| 17 | Her husband 's letter had reached them as soon as they arrived in their summer resting place and had plunged them all into abject misery . |
| 18 | Uncle Philip received Christmas cards and calendars from traders and wholesalers with whom he dealt but he destroyed them as soon as they arrived so there were no cards on the mantelpiece . |
| 19 | Set up special links only as necessary and cancel them as soon as they have served their purpose . |