Example sentences of "[adv] as [adv] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So as soon as he gets told he 'll be |
| 2 | So as soon as he saw Bill Brice sink chubbily to his knees , he jumped to the conclusion that some brief word of informal prayer was going to be said . |
| 3 | so as soon as he comes , soon as |
| 4 | as so , more or less as soon as he 'd said hello he said erm thirty two and two minutes past the hour , they 're your trains . |
| 5 | could n't wait to get away as soon as he got his bloody present , he was |
| 6 | But she could still recall , quite vividly , how it had been when she and Tom had married , just as soon as he had been able to dispense with his crutches : their brief but ecstatic honeymoon , the way he had so gently and expertly initiated her into the pleasures of sex and how , in spite of all his subsequent straying , she had remained faithful , forgiving and in love with him , in her own way , right to the end . |
| 7 | He had every intention of getting the hell out of Paris just as soon as he had collected all the money owed to him . |
| 8 | Soon as soon as he starts talking about cars yap yap yap yap yap yap he does n't stop . |
| 9 | and he 's shaved his tash off as well and he 's always had that tash ever since I 've been there , it was really funny |
| 10 | But Charles switched his smile off as soon as he left . |
| 11 | He promised to send more money home as soon as he got paid , and he wanted her to look after his puppy , which he guessed by now would be a full-grown collie . |
| 12 | However , it is a well known fact that all Spanish men are born with a football in their mouth and so I am sure his dormant skills will blossom forth as soon as he walks out on to the park . |
| 13 | Even Michael Bridges , the Echo man ( Kegan had leaned over to Briant and pointed him out as soon as he came in ) , sat sprawled in seeming boredom in his chair at the end of the front row . |
| 14 | It 's not that I 'm totally assured that this time round I wo n't be quite so foolish , it 's simply that I know it 's possible to progress to that stage beyond ‘ falling in love ’ — if I do n't opt out as soon as he starts to look less like Prince Charming and more like Mr Very Ordinary and Boring . |
| 15 | No , whoever caught him hunting for more knew that there was more there to be found — knew it because he himself had come out as soon as he dared , to remove whatever was there to a place of greater safety . |
| 16 | Isay followed him unquestioningly as always when he passed through the gates of the Rorim proper to the open space beyond . |
| 17 | Only a glimpse though , for the large figure darted back as soon as he saw them . |
| 18 | With an enjoyment that came back as soon as he started to work , he invented a solo routine that was deliberately and taxingly physical . |
| 19 | But she knew that in the last resort if he did I would do it , but he 's , he 's paid off now as soon as he 'd paid off he went on the dole again |
| 20 | Oh yeah that 's the only one I brought home , on Tuesday it was , well as soon as he saw , I brought it in and me dad looked at it and he goes yeah it 's alright , I knew he did n't like it and then when Mike got in , he said oh I do n't like that , so I said why ? |
| 21 | There were a few areas of welcome grassland like the one that rose ahead of him almost as soon as he left the Park behind . |
| 22 | Almost as soon as he learnt to write , he handed his parents a note which read : ‘ I wish to become a painter . ’ |
| 23 | Coleridge made rapid progress with the poem , and almost as soon as he reached Stowey he was writing to Joseph Cottle with news of a ballad ‘ of about 300 lines ’ . |
| 24 | David became a Sunday Times colour magazine figure almost as soon as he received his gold medal at the Royal College dressed in a gold lame jacket with a gold lame shopping bag . ’ |
| 25 | " You mean come oop and — " ow you zay — zee you zome time ? " he said , in a good mood , making a silly French voice which he started to regret almost as soon as he 'd spoken . |
| 26 | Kinane , aged 30 , rode the Irish filly The Caretaker to win Europe 's most valuable prize for two-year-olds , the Cartier Million , in Dublin on Saturday , but almost as soon as he had passed the post to complete his lucrative double on Carroll House , who is trained by Michael Jarvis at Newmarket , the klaxon sounded ominously to indicate a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 27 | On 6 February 1771 , a Colonel Luttrell turned up at Mrs Cornely 's Masquerade at the Pantheon , London , dressed as a coffin ; R.S. Kirby , who was also present , recorded that Luttrell cast such a ‘ pall of gloom ’ over the proceedings that he was obliged to leave almost as soon as he had arrived . |
| 28 | The possibility of a long poem clearly inspired him and , almost as soon as he had settled himself with the Mirrlees , he began to work upon the next poem in the sequence . |
| 29 | He set off again almost as soon as he had returned to Hobart to make up for lost time on an overland expedition to Launceston and George Town , 60 miles from Hobart on the North Coast of the island . |
| 30 | When at last a reluctant taker was found he asked to be recalled almost as soon as he had arrived at his post . |