Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 2 | I not only feel it to be the most relevant magazine to the industry I work in — the consumer finance sector — but have also found the appointments section excellent , especially as I secured new employment through it after being made redundant . |
| 3 | As I unveil this plaque to the glory of God and in memory of all those who served in the Hundredth Bomb Group in the cause of freedom from this airfield . |
| 4 | At first I thought it was piles , as I had terrible itching round my anus . |
| 5 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
| 6 | People left smiling and as I passed one lady on her way down the hill she grinned at me and said ‘ Perfick ’ ! |
| 7 | As I said last year at the Whitbread and Company conference on employee volunteering . |
| 8 | Gav and my Aunt Janice got on like a house on fire , a combined location and fate I occasionally wished on them as I lay awake listening to the sounds of their love-making , a pastime I sometimes suspected I shared with people in a large part of the surrounding community , not to say northern Europe . |
| 9 | He 's holding his hand out to me , yelling at me , but I 'm stuck there , terrified , screaming , and I do n't know what to do , ca n't think what to do , even while he 's yelling at me to help him , come out to him , get a branch , but I 'm petrified at the thought of setting foot on that white , treacherous surface and I ca n't imagine finding a branch , ca n't think what to do as I look one way towards the tall trees above the hidden gorge and the other along the shore of the loch towards the boat-house but there are no branches , there 's only snow everywhere , and then Andy stops struggling and slips under the whiteness . |
| 10 | A note from Bartram in 1745 seems to imply a slight difference of opinion as his account of some American pines had been questioned : ‘ But as I have great opinion of Miller 's learning and judgement , I am engaged in duty and friendship to inform him the best I can . ’ |
| 11 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
| 12 | She lowered her lashes , said bitterly , ‘ I — I 've never gone as far as I did last night with you ! ’ |
| 13 | And weigh those matters up in your mind as you hear one evidence after the other . |
| 14 | As you walked one day in the temple |
| 15 | High-handedness and arrogance are their trademarks , as you saw last night at the governor 's palace . |
| 16 | Did you have this in new one int room as you go other side of fire place in that big polythene bag June |
| 17 | Then you 'd quarter it , quarter it off , you see , then carry it down to the shop so as you had some beef in the shop on show in four quarters . |
| 18 | However , as you have some discretion in these matters , Mr. Speaker , and while we wait for the Scottish electorate to remove the remainder of the Scottish Conservative party from this House , would it not be appropriate for you to give priority to Scottish Members at Scottish Question Time ? |
| 19 | You can withdraw up to £50 a day as long as you have enough money in your account . |
| 20 | Of course you ca n't ride it up trackless slopes of heather , peat hags and boulder fields — in fact you have to carry it on your shoulder as soon as you leave any kind of track at all — but it performed brilliantly on the rocky Land-Rover track back down from the hill . |
| 21 | As you select each colour from the palette , you are required to give it a code number or letter . |
| 22 | So long as you delivered enough advertising against the right consumers , the result could be measured in sales . |
| 23 | Soon as you understand one part of what it means , you lose any chance of understanding the rest . ’ |
| 24 | Affection , melancholy , and other emotions that eluded classification , surged and slopped inside her as she noted each detail as if for the first time — or as if for the last . |
| 25 | Although her breathing became a little faster as she imagined this part of the scene , she did not become noticeably distressed in any way ; in fact she told me that she felt really pleased with herself for the way in which she had handled the situation . |
| 26 | She grimaced as she took another swig of Coke . |
| 27 | ‘ Yeah , we know it were him , ’ said a woman as she added another bunch of flowers to the hundreds piled on the embankment . |
| 28 | She waited a moment and , as she saw light dawn on the other woman 's face , she started to think that they were getting somewhere . |
| 29 | As Venetia commented : ‘ Laura was clever ; she knew her husband so well , just as she knew public taste in the Sixties . |
| 30 | Just as she uses passive resistance in order to overcome her own passivity , so she uses her empty stomach to overcome her own emptiness . |