Example sentences of "[coord] as [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as they fell upon that field , |
| 2 | And as they prepare for first division football he 's relishing another challenge , just as he 's looking forward to renewing acquaintances with certain Meath players today . |
| 3 | As the Crown acts on the advice of ministers in this matter , and as they deal with comparable matters , the distinction between the two is not substantial . |
| 4 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 5 | It will be amazing if this government runs the full course and as we saw in nineteen nineties the Tories just love leadership elections putting the knife in . |
| 6 | And as we look over these next few minutes , we 'll consider that it was Pilate who rejected and who crucified the Lord Jesus . |
| 7 | The hall and the gallery and the enormous stained glass windows which faced the door as you came in , and the three reception rooms were ours , and as I suffer from terrible claustrophobia , I thought it was a wonderful place to live although David , who I am sure does n't suffer from claustrophobia as badly as I do , being British and like most British people , would be content to live in smaller environments . |
| 8 | Oh , yes , you could , you certainly could , and as I said for long periods , parental an and offspring self interest will overlap . |
| 9 | Well but I mean that 's an example and as I say at this end where you 've no arousal you 're either asleep or dead , there 's no sort of performance performance of any sort and we talk about having those butterflies in the stomach do n't we ? |
| 10 | That 's the brain , that 's a stroke , the brain is a very sensitive part of the body , and as you know in this very topic of debate , if the brain do n't get enough blood , er , for three minutes , you 've got permanent brain damage and the only occupation that 's suitable is that of a politician . |
| 11 | As a publish writer yourself I told her I 've been published articles you will understand the need for market targeting and as you mention at twenty thousand words is not full-length , though this could be if was aimed at children . |
| 12 | And as you say at that stage it really was just a matter of erm every man for himself really . |
| 13 | Nothing and no one was safe , least of all Mrs Browning , and as she reflected on this a sense of futility overwhelmed her . |
| 14 | But as we know from British history one of the understated reasons why erm there was a lot of hostility to home rule for Ireland in Britain was because of the fear of the creation of a hostile state er erm off , off Britain 's shore . |
| 15 | But as we looked at each other I had a strange sensation . |
| 16 | But as we saw in that magnificent film The Cruel Sea ( recently re-shown on television ) it was even more nerve-wracking to serve in a slow moving ammunition ship or tanker , bearing a lethal cargo , than to man the depth charges and guns on a naval corvette , which was at least able to defend itself . |
| 17 | Tight-lipped , she drove in silence , keeping her eyes firmly on the road , but as they sat at red traffic-lights waiting for them to change she could n't keep silent any longer . |
| 18 | But as she forecast in recent months ( The Art Newspaper No.19 , June 1992 , p.3 ) , Ms Radice believes that sexual content is grounds for a grant 's denial . |
| 19 | She opened her eyes very wide as this thought slipped into her mind , but as she sat considering this new idea , she knew that she was right . |
| 20 | If there is sufficient clearance between spring an bump stop , then leave alone , but as you ask about extended shackles , I suspect the axle is up to the bump stops . |
| 21 | But as you go round that bend , there 's a turning , as you go round the bend and you go down . |
| 22 | Make allowance for the fact that you 'll be drifting sideways more with the daggerboard up but as you come into shallow water then you can raise the rudder and step ashore . |
| 23 | certainly prior to the nineteen ninety two legislation erm in relation to what was er the was er required application but as you see since nineteen ninety two legislation , that petition was changed erm and in terms of the resolutions , we suggest that recognise the people concerned Hertfordshire and that they are taking into account the applications erm that we continue to work basically with H M I pollution aspects and that we respond to the Department of the Environment er expressing our concerns er er erm way in which er consultation has changed and in fact us . |
| 24 | Guests paid £25 per head for the two-hour function , but as it overran by three minutes , they gladly paid out an additional £25 . |