Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead the Army welcomes the differences among the British , as long as everyone acknowledges a fundamental allegiance to Queen and country . |
| 2 | Attitude Not easily measurable but has clearly improved as everyone sees a definite objective and a defined route to achieving it . |
| 3 | Something I 've always wanted to do and rather daunting as everyone knows the original movies and shows and the people who sang and danced in them . |
| 4 | So long as everyone has an equal right to vote there must be a limit to the variations in prosperity in the community that are politically acceptable . |
| 5 | I 'll remi remind you of those again as I reach the various Lots . |
| 6 | As I reach the open air on the far side of the back cover , having emerged from a cavern called the dungeon of lust , ten thousand voices will greet me with a joyous shout . |
| 7 | The club 's planes were usually Tiger Moths in the main , and as I remember the main airport building adjacent to the main road , pre war , were building Swallow side-cars for motorbikes . |
| 8 | Bert and Duncan were as uninformed as I regarding the forthcoming events of the programme . |
| 9 | Some riders will only buy thoroughbred horses , but I do prefer ones with a little ‘ common ’ blood , as I like a stronger build of horse . |
| 10 | Some riders will only buy thoroughbred horses , but I do prefer ones with a little ‘ common ’ blood , as I like a stronger build of horse . |
| 11 | By now I had almost convinced Rick to change to the boilie when I had another take on the Tropicana ; this was all the convincing he needed as I landed a nice mirror around the 12lb mark . |
| 12 | As I assume the first year warranty will soon be over , I suggest you have the problem investigated . |
| 13 | ‘ Good gracious , that was close ’ I said , as I heard a God-Almighty thud . |
| 14 | I had occasionally seen his photograph as I skimmed the financial sections of the newspapers . |
| 15 | My heart began to flutter as I lowered the heavy pyx into my pouch . |
| 16 | As I left the next shift was settling in for the day , writing up diaries , reading novels and brewing up endless cups of tea . |
| 17 | The big bonger chimed midnight as I put the finishing touches to our Bible beds ( hers has a closing lid , of course ) . |
| 18 | I 'll , I can endorse that by saying that we should n't , as I noticed a certain offhandedness with him that I did n't like at all . |
| 19 | Fenella must have heard me , as she appeared at her door as I reached the first landing . |
| 20 | As I rounded Ardmair Bay , the sky was bright but as I reached the scattered cottages and crofts of Strath Kanaird , none with an invitation to halt or stop , ominous yellow clouds formed overhead , obviously heralding a storm , and when Stac Polly came into sight , there was a spiralling column like a tornado above it . |
| 21 | I came across the garden 's central pavilion quite by chance , stumbling on it as I followed a dried water-course . |
| 22 | My lasting impressions of Plas-yn-Rhiw are of the great clumps of Fuchsia magellanica , its soft hazes of scarlet toning so well with the grey wall ; of an old pear tree and forsythia growing through the roof of the ruined dairy ; of the superb Magnolia campbellii mollicomata , planted by the Keatings in 1947 ; and of squeezing between box hedges down narrow grass passageways and ducking under arching pink rhododendrons and car-mine camellias as I followed the curving stone and cobbled paths . |
| 23 | We were to fly across , which suited me , as I had a morbid fear of being torpedoed at sea . |
| 24 | As long as I had a sympathetic host , of course . |
| 25 | I know , as I had a strict upbringing . |
| 26 | As I had a twelfth-hand Hillman Imp at the time I drove him down to his place in South London . |
| 27 | Our leader was soon grunting in a semi layback posture , and as I had the appropriate page open , I could not resist reading out loud : ‘ … |
| 28 | Even as I wrote the final corrections to the first edition of this text in January 1973 , a splendid , though destructive new tear had Opened across the island of Heimaey , south of Iceland , and new oceanic crust was being formed . |
| 29 | She was right , of course ; but as I cycled the short distance home I kept worrying at the problem , juggling the pieces frustratingly in my mind , and making no sense at all . |
| 30 | And yet with each succeeding year both my guilt and inferiority somehow diminish as I witness the old country ways vanish . |