Example sentences of "[adv] as [pers pn] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As the Daily Express noted : ‘ Much as I disliked this film and its cheap exploitation of suffering and illness , I must concede that it has been made with the dead-on professionalism that is characteristic of the other ‘ Carry Ons . ’ ’ |
2 | World heavyweight boxing ends the year much as it started this year and almost every other year — in total chaos . |
3 | He knew how to hold the Conservative Party together , and , so long as he judged this right , to hold it loyal to Lloyd George . |
4 | Er so as it happened this girl had got the material erm a wild silk cream and er Elizabeth made up this dress for her of course er Michael Caine 's daughter i is quite a busty girl , you know |
5 | The British rule it , just as they rule this country . |
6 | and vital that we do n't and just as we said this morning said we would n't preempt and pre-judge the community of the St Albans District Council on the er on the transportation study . |
7 | ‘ Just as it invaded this mutton ? ’ |
8 | As soon as we receive this envelope with their first order , we 'll send you your FREE York film . |
9 | I 'll fetch one of the ambulance lads to take a look at you soon as we get this bloke out . ’ |
10 | As soon as we get this month 's cheque . ’ |
11 | All over Europe they react to it as if it 's a massive hit ; as soon as we start this thing the applause is as if it 's one of your hit singles ! |
12 | And er they listened very carefully to us , in fact council of Kivanagh actually brought up a sample of the dinner they issued to old people and I , I did notice as soon as they put this sample on the table the opposition the c Conservatives and they still are , their heads bowed . |
13 | oh faces do as soon as you mention this place |
14 | If you leave as soon as you receive this letter , you should be back home before midnight . |
15 | No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know . |
16 | As soon as I adopted this expedient , my interviews were quite transformed . ’ |
17 | He glanced up as they completed this transaction to find the attention of the nearest two tables , both exclusively male , fixed disbelievingly on them . |
18 | Never had an occasion to use , well the only time I 've used a newspaper as far as I know this afternoon when I emptied the bag . |
19 | In so far as I understand this view , and it is not yet a matter of close textual criticism of a published account , I find it difficult to connect the commonsense properties of consciousness ( vague as they may be ) , with the notions of repair and debugging ( fundamental as those are to any account of intelligent mechanisms ) . |
20 | erm If United can play as well as they did this afternoon and Oldham perform as well as we know they can , we 're in for a really tremendous game of football . |
21 | As fast as it formed this spume was whisked away into the cave from where it was sucked into a natural wind tunnel and finally shot from a huge blow hole towards the centre of Fianuis . |
22 | Johnson is 50 , Melville is 41 and sometimes as you hear this playground talk about sex you hear echoes of a world ignorant of Aids . |
23 | Unless we are more attentive , the Guatemalan refugees are about to be ignored again as they suffer this time not from the cold war , but the ‘ new world order ’ . |
24 | Surely it can not be possible , she was thinking , to love anyone as intensely as I love this man . |