Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it is best to suck it off with one of those tiny battery-powered vacuum cleaners you can get for about a tenner these days , as I did in this case . |
| 2 | Drawing pictures , as I do in this text , can also be helpful . |
| 3 | I discovered soon after my illness the same energies walking beneath the cliffs of Lyme Regis , in the shadow of Mary Annan and the ichthyosauruses as I do in this hamlet . |
| 4 | Their reward could be to find ( as I found in another country ) that chemistry is the most popular subject in the curriculum . |
| 5 | Well as you heard in that report , there 's has been strong criticism of the inquest system , which has led to deaths being investigated thouands of miles from where they happened . |
| 6 | erm it may be that erm because of my generation , but you do n't get the same sort of personalities nowadays as you did in those days , erm Mr for instance he was , he was a most benign sort of erm fellow of what one would describe as a real gentleman mm , mind you he used to have his paddies at times but |
| 7 | In her portrait of Medea — or Medee as she becomes in this staging of the original French version — this is what she uses consistently . |
| 8 | In her portrait of Medea — or Medee as she becomes in this staging of the original French version — this is what she uses consistently . |
| 9 | Later as she lay in that bed , after she had eaten a meal in a small cheap cafe in New Oxford Street , she squirmed between sheets of a kind she had never seen before , purple knitted nylon . |
| 10 | Such identity and unity as she possessed in these years was essentially the identity and unity of a system of power , though one beginning to decay . |
| 11 | As she moved in that direction , she glanced into the kitchen and caught sight of the clock . |
| 12 | As she observes in this passage , her approach contests traditional assumptions about metaphor , assumptions that have often gone unquestioned by more recent theorists of rhetoric . |
| 13 | As we saw in this chapter , more recently it has been found that this account of processing can not be correct for at least three reasons : ( a ) there is evidence that syntactic and semantic processing is not delayed until the end of the clause ; ( b ) there is evidence that information about the specific wording is retained after the end of a clause if that clause contains nonspecific words which subsequent clauses will disambiguate ; ( c ) specific wording will also be retained if it has pragmatic significance . |
| 14 | I could n't eat , because of the cuts , could n't drink — they were feeding us milk through straws — and my face was beginning to get septicaemia as we lay in this hut with just this little oil- lamp , and the mosquitoes at night would come and sit on the wounds , and I could n't stop thinking about what was going to happen next in my life , and we had no newspapers and I did n't know what was happening and I could n't cry because it pulled the stitches . |
| 15 | As we reported in this space in January , World Cup broadcast managers TSL did the United States ' game a disservice by making a deal with a network which showed the World Cup final almost four months after it was played . |
| 16 | Civil government is designed , as long as we live in this world , to cherish and support the external worship of God ; to preserve the pure doctrine of religion , to defend the constitutions of the church , to regulate our lives in a manner requisite for the society of man , to form our manners to civil justice , to promote our concord with each other , and to establish general peace and tranquillity … |
| 17 | Andy Lloyd believes they ultimately failed last year because of the onerous programme confronting them , as they competed in all directions for an elusive honour : ‘ There was so much concerted effort and no reward . |
| 18 | Whether he would have done the right thing by her — as they said in those days — is fruitless speculation : he was never told of the need . |
| 19 | I thanked her for the dance and Werewolf bowed deeply to her ‘ girlfriend ’ ( Oxnard , California ) , which made her day , as they say in those parts . |
| 20 | They lose their nous ( and , as they say in some quarters , their ‘ bottle ’ ) . |
| 21 | One month later Baggio was , as they say in these parts , ‘ re-dimensioned ’ . |
| 22 | We have heard many times why that has not been possible and it 's no good crying over spilt milk , as they say in these parts . |
| 23 | Instead of giving your mum chocolates ( or cake as they did in those days ) , you could treat her to a special melon basket , which can be prepared the day before . |
| 24 | Keith Richardson says it was an excellent Gloucester performance and with Wales beating England it just goes to show that the formbook can be beaten and Gloucester could well beat Bath on Saturday if they run and tackle as hard as they did in this game . |
| 25 | My second premise is that in such a complex area , where social , cognitive pedagogic , affective , inter-personal and indeed ethical factors interact as they do in all aspects of education — there is unlikely to be a simple or single answer . |
| 26 | When occasions have occurred , as they do in all organizations , where it is necessary to take a ‘ big ’ risk on a young man whose experience and background we think inadequate for the task , nine times out of ten not only does he rise to the occasion but he does even better than we would expect . |
| 27 | Values will influence the choice of topic , as they do in all branches of science , but methods should be value-free . |
| 28 | Horses and ponies in the rest of Europe must have the same sort of protection as they do in this country . |
| 29 | The young women of the hareem , her foster sisters , cousins and young aunts scurried around her much as they do in any society , running errands , advising , gossiping . |
| 30 | Light and dark , colour , texture , viewpoint and composition all play their part , as they do in any painting . |