Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kendall stormed : ‘ The players are letting themselves down as well as everyone connected with this club . |
| 2 | One feels that two hours spent in one or other of the jammed little rooms — there are four as far as I remember at this instance , two down , one up , and one in the cellar — will be rewarding , refreshing , and never questioned by the owners . |
| 3 | As I wrote on this page recently , opera is barely a living art form any longer . |
| 4 | So I 'm not creeping back for my job but anything erm it 's not that and erm But the lads in the lodge sometimes you 've got to and er I 've got a bit of er well a speery voice you know rough so sometimes I get a little bit of control on them and erm also as I said about these chaps that are working , erm we 're not blind , we know what 's happening and we 've got sympathy even with them . |
| 5 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 6 | However , I think it it to re-stress again it remains the county council 's view in the context of the advice in P P G seven that most most development erm which is going to serve to promote diversification in rural areas should in fact be directed to and located within and adjacent to existing settlements rural settlements which is where , as I said before most people actually do live and it maintains a close relationship between the jobs provided and the residence of people , and that that level of allocation appropriate level of allocation is in fact something for the local er planning authorities to decide through their development plans and to make adequate provision for it . |
| 7 | ‘ I threw them all away a couple of weeks ago as soon as I came across that letter from Parkin , ’ Lancaster murmured . |
| 8 | As I sit at this word processor , the chips of which may have been assembled by a young woman in the Philippines for a pittance a day and for such long hours that her eyes will be damaged in a tax haven created specially for foreign companies , I am acutely aware of the link between the health of the people of the Philippines and my life here in Britain . |
| 9 | For once in my life there was no need to believe as I did or act as I chose for any reasons other than that I was personally convinced it was right . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | I was spitting with fear and frustration as I yanked on some clothes and flung myself into the control area . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've never eaten as well as I have on this trip . ’ |
| 13 | Yes but when you 've been , when you 've been in the work as I have over many years with doctors , I was a mental welfare officer so I mean I know er , you know , you can be fobbed off . |
| 14 | I never wanted my Mum so much in my life as I did at that moment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But our complicity in taking those dreadful little uppers , of which I thoroughly disapproved , as I do of all narcotic stimulants , drew us closer together , so I submitted to their influence . |
| 17 | And maybe you need to be thirtysomething yourself to feel as I do about these people . |
| 18 | Drawing pictures , as I do in this text , can also be helpful . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Erm first of all , as I grapple with this problem over the weekend , it did seem to me very difficult to make any sensible assessment of integration on a at a strategic level because so clearly it is a site specific matter . |
| 21 | Their reward could be to find ( as I found in another country ) that chemistry is the most popular subject in the curriculum . |
| 22 | looking at the interviewer as you speak to each other ; |
| 23 | But as you go round that bend , there 's a turning , as you go round the bend and you go down . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Just keep going for as long as you like on that line . |
| 26 | AS YOU yawn through this week 's promo-treadmill that is Wogan and wonder why Parkinson went to Australia , imagine , if you will , an interview programme with one guest , a shot of the interviewer 's back only , no stairs and the sort of questions that make grown men break down and cry . |
| 27 | Every theme complements the next as you enter into another part of this magnificent display of living colour . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | As you deal with each point then tick the cross , but not before . |
| 30 | Indeed , as Paul Du Noyer noted in NME , it might not make a sausage of difference to your diet but it 's guaranteed to leave a feeling of guilt in your head as you tuck into that rump steak . |