Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much as I feel now at your damned silly question ! |
| 2 | She had even avoided the swimming-pool , for , much as she looked forward to and enjoyed her evening dips , she did n't want to give him any further opportunity to seek her company . |
| 3 | But it does not invalidate the argument of the last paragraph : so long as we judge there to be a need for government and common policies , democratic principle will require that minorities have to accept majority decisions to which they are opposed . |
| 4 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 5 | Two people lingered , fingering the scarves , and she put her head down , feigning ignorance , or ineptitude , or just plain stupidity — whatever , so long as they went away without asking her the price of anything ! |
| 6 | Temperature requirements are not too critical either , so long as they fall somewhere in the range of 20–28°C . |
| 7 | LORD WRIGHT : I think the jury should be directed by the judge that the respondent Association had a legal right to put the person 's name on the stop list , so long as they did so in order to promote the trade interests of the Association and its members and not with intent to injure , and so long as the money , fine or penalty demanded was reasonable and not extortionate . |
| 8 | The Government has stated that , as well as continuing cover on non-vested markets for NCM , it will provide reinsurance for those contracts which are deemed to be in the ‘ national interest ’ for as long as the Government considers its existence essential to meet the reasonable needs of exporters and so long as it performs satisfactorily as a trading facility . |
| 9 | The roles of teacher and taught were clear , especially as he spoke gently to the boy showing him how to untangle a line-'if you 're mad with it , it will get mad back' . |
| 10 | Quickly she put together a few sandwiches and , suitably dressed for walking , waited impatiently as they chugged slowly towards their planned point of departure . |
| 11 | Damian said impatiently as he strode away from Passport Control . |
| 12 | Dunvant6 Swansea14 SWANSEA reached the Schweppes Cup semi-finals for the third successive season and the 10th time in all as they battled home against their Second Division League neighbours . |
| 13 | The main reason is obviously as I said earlier in my in my erm summary of my statement , to reduce congestion , reduce delays , to reduce accidents and to give scope for environmental improvements within the urban area . |
| 14 | so as it sits now between national curriculum |
| 15 | He fired , but at once saw that it was a Maryland , banking away as it dived vertically for the sea . |
| 16 | These words from Flower of Scotland will no doubt have been running through the head of Dick Best as he flew home to London yesterday . |
| 17 | Just as they came late in the century to promote travel facilities actively , so the railway companies were slow to issue promotional travel literature . |
| 18 | As I relaxed I took a look around to see what was going down , just as we pulled away from the lights and turned left . |
| 19 | If you get it right the engine will catch just as it slows almost to a halt and , to the accompaniment of a swirling grey cloud of oily smoke stage right , the hiccupping bass thumping will grow into the irregular loping lumpy grumble of a healthy Pratt 986 . |
| 20 | As for expanding in Europe , the board accepts that the Halifax must diversify abroad , just as it diversified geographically within Britain earlier in its history . |
| 21 | Signe saw the policeman just as I pulled away from the kerb . |
| 22 | Just as he reacted strongly against Richards 's suggestion that The Waste Land had severed poetry from belief , which carried the implication that the poem was a cultural museum , so Eliot campaigned now for the preservation of London 's churches not as museum pieces , but as centres of religion . |
| 23 | Just as he did earlier in the chapter , he warns Moses and Aaron to ‘ Get away from the midst of this congregation , that I may consume them in a moment . ’ |
| 24 | He 'd probably be on his way across the Channel now and waiting outside her flat just as she got home from work . |
| 25 | Just as she reached forward with her car key she saw how the window had been forced and the catch freed to open the door . |
| 26 | Emily walked into the sitting room , let the coat fall to the floor and sat down on the couch , crossing her legs as she had in the wine bar , and watching him coolly as he stood there in the doorway . |
| 27 | Yeah , swinging around us , literally big panes of glass and they were flying down and as soon as they got away from the houses , it opened up again , they were crashing down all over my drive and all over the road out there |
| 28 | Ianthe was not the type to pour herself a glass of sherry or gin as soon as she got home after a day 's work , nor yet to make a cup of tea . |
| 29 | Yet , as soon as he got outside into the Earls Court Road he also realised something else . |
| 30 | No as soon as it gets anywhere past the top , you only have to have about a four inch dick . |