Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] [adv] as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Then you can just chop them off as they become constants .
2 Even your first flight could end up with a field landing and , if the wheel brake lever is not in the usual position for you , your habits will catch you out as you claw for the non-existent lever in panic .
3 Never leave objects on the floor of the kitchen , such as shoes or dustpans , that may trip you up as you back away from the sink or cooker .
4 Paulus could sense it too as she moved in for the kill to claim a 2-6 , 6-4 , 6-3 victory .
5 It will then follow you in as you enter saying you could not find it .
6 He did not see her precisely as she saw herself but it could have been very much worse .
7 With resignation she felt the colour steal into her face , and knew he would n't believe her even as she tried to explain that she had n't even seen the rings but had been absorbed by the ornaments .
8 He knew she was getting at him — imagine a man like Marc Vila admitting to being foolish ever ! — but if she kept calm like this she could undermine him just as he had tried to undermine her .
9 Do n't try and answer something you do not understand in the hope that you can work it out as you go along .
10 Jonathon knew he had less than two miles to go and that his faithful horse would trudge him home as he had done many times before .
11 At Bury , for instance , the abbey owned the whole site and could lay it out as it pleased .
12 He did not join her immediately as she 'd half expected , but sat down beside her .
13 So you 'd just write it as , I mean as it 's minus one , you can take it off as you go along , but it 's , sometimes it 'll be a minus six or something , so write it as two point nine nine squared minus one .
14 She could just make him out as he rolled over to face her .
15 And finally on the A four one this evening , there is patching work on the A four one at various locations throughout the road this evening , which could hold you up as you travel along there .
16 Basically , you hold this as you would a short leash , wrapped around your bottom two fingers and tied to your glove , so that you can easily pay it out as you increase the flight distance .
17 Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) .
18 No sorry I 've deci , I said I 'd make it up as I went along !
19 She would make it up as she went along — like a story told to a child at bedtime ; like a clever lie that relies as much on the truth as on deception .
20 You can just make it out as you cross from Aonach air Chrith to Maol Chinn-dearg , with Loch Quoich sparkling behind Gleouraich , another fabulous mountain .
21 Electronic publishing is n't like word processing , it 's not that easy to ‘ pick it up as you go along ’ — at least not if you want professional results .
22 Well when I , when I re-do it I 'll write it out as I type it and I 'll let you see it .
23 And he besought his mother that she would love her even as she loved him himself , and that she would do good to her and show her great honour , for which he should ever serve her with the better good will .
24 She would accept it just as she accepted her heartbeat and her pulses .
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