Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of Dr McNab 's arguments was by no means as overwhelming as might be supposed ; with the best will in the world and in ideal circumstances it is next to impossible to escape cerebral indigestion as someone quotes comparative figures as fluently as Dr McNab had just been doing . |
| 2 | Oh so as I get another chance then ? |
| 3 | ‘ And as I put one leg out of the door , he looked slightly taken aback , because he could see that my leg was bare . |
| 4 | I have learned to please , to gauge and sniff the air before I move off , to swing my head from side to side as I put one foot carefully in front of the other , ears and hair raised to twang on the slightest change in the atmosphere . |
| 5 | Donna 's leader on the DTS is the same as I had 5 years ago ! |
| 6 | My guns were inspected and a statement was taken from all the crew and I was released , as I said many times later , " without prejudice " , but darkly adding " subject to re-arrest " . |
| 7 | As I said some moments ago , we have strengthened the law requiring trustees to disclose key information to members , to pensioners and to trade unions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I always think of er as I say new bread always brings me back a lot of memories . |
| 10 | ‘ As long as I drink some Lucozade straight away , then I 'm OK . |
| 11 | ‘ He wants me to have really short hair , just as I did 10 years ago . ’ |
| 12 | Went to look up her reading , they said had to pay I 've used three times as much gas as I did three times as much gas as I needed last time |
| 13 | No I 've nothing , any palpitations , nothing , I feel as fit as I did twenty years ago . |
| 14 | These things hardly disturb me , as I tap these words out . |
| 15 | As you get more energy back when two light nuclei fuse than it costs to get them together it would seem that we are bound to win . |
| 16 | As soon as you got that thing off of the runway or a hard surface , it sunk without any kind of a , in the English mud . |
| 17 | It is a good idea to say the key words aloud every time as you check each item so that it becomes a habit . |
| 18 | I am instructed to enquire whether you would agree to recommence trading there , as you did six years ago , using the premises as a studio and dark-room , and as a shop for the sale of photographic goods — and occupying the upper floor for domestic purposes . |
| 19 | Yeah the actual as you did successful sales course we can note your comments down okay , I 'll give you a set of these now , write the sales person 's name across there and write your comments , criticisms , what was done well , what was done badly , what could be improved on and it 's his role play cycle , give this to the sales person . |
| 20 | So I 'd like you to , as you did this morning please , move your chairs all round , close the blinds , and er , it 's the , the second video of the day . |
| 21 | Yes thank well yes er thank you very much as you say several pages back . |
| 22 | As you shouted armed police where were your hands ? |
| 23 | In fact , she thought as she splashed cold water on to her hot face , she had n't seen him all morning — perhaps he 'd taken himself off for a walk . |
| 24 | It was a pity , that ; he would have liked to have heard her groan again , perhaps even to cry out as she had that night when The Man had played his games with her . |
| 25 | Could that have been love , real love ? she asked herself now , as she had many times before . |
| 26 | Since the advent of Felicity , she had gone up to sleep in the attic — an arrangement she preferred , as she had absolute privacy up there , and as luck would have it , there was an electric fire , so that she could use it as a study . |
| 27 | Lucy was also aware that Doreen 's previous anger appeared to have vanished as she carried refilled plates back to the long table , where she chatted and laughed with the men and the two guides . |
| 28 | The blind woman quivered as she skryed light years outward through the warp , obeying the disciplines of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica , seeking contact with the mind of some other Astropath serving the fortress-monastery at Vindict V. |
| 29 | It was no less astonishing that she should find room on her emaciated body to engrave in it , by her discipline , the wounds of the son of God … she gave herself such blows that her blood sprinkled the wails … and as she practised this penance daily every night she reopened her bleeding wounds by making new ones … |
| 30 | But , as she took two steps backwards , he followed her into the apartment 's hallway , softly lit by the lamp she had left on . |