Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [vb pp] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as I had seen this reading of the phrase it at once seemed more plausible . |
| 2 | It 's got as bright and fierce an eye as I 've seen this side the Avon . ’ |
| 3 | Erm that 's as much as I 've got this morning . |
| 4 | Hello I 'm terribly busy Norma actually , I 've got a full lesson at the minute , erm , I 'll , I 'll try and , and sort that out as soon as I 've finished this lesson |
| 5 | In fact , as I have developed this chapter , I realise that within the definition I am using they are exactly the same thing . |
| 6 | I 'm very sorry that as soon as I have finished this welcome this morning that I have got to leave you , and I am very sorry that I shall not be able to return this evening for your dinner which I would originally look forward very much to but I trust that you will enjoy the company of the Chairman of our Environmental Services Committee , Councillor Robin Draga , who is attending on my behalf . |
| 7 | At times , as I have researched this book , it has occurred to me that the second-hand book world is the only place left in England where knowledge of anything but the latest semi-literate fads still exists . |
| 8 | They 're actually saying , can you please , seeing as you 've got this money for youth , help us keep the job going . |
| 9 | I can assure you we will keep our side of the bargain … just as soon as you have completed this assignment . |
| 10 | As soon as she had announced this fact , she pushed past him roughly , on her way to the kitchen . |
| 11 | I hollered , I shall leave him as soon as we 've got this business sorted out . |
| 12 | We will continue to reduce tax burdens on business , as we have done this year for the motor industry , whenever it is possible to do so . |
| 13 | As we have said this signal comes in the form of a physical , mental , or behavioural symptom . |
| 14 | Coal also suffers from competition from gas , which is more environmentally friendly , and — as we have heard this evening — is becoming far more important in terms of baseload electricity generation in the near future . |
| 15 | after fighting one another for months in the House of Commons , were ready to meet together under the roof of the Sovereign and sink their own differences for a common good and arrange as they had done this morning for a National Government to meet one of the gravest crises that the British Empire had yet been asked to face . |
| 16 | I 'd like to take up some points as they 've occurred this morning . |
| 17 | And yet , as carelessly as he had discarded this coat , he had deliberately destroyed her hopes and her dreams . |