Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I left in early afternoon to catch the London train , I reflected that here was as large number of small businessmen who were likely to see some radical changes in the way they operated . |
| 2 | As I said in earlier chapters , though , when you live alone two things are very important — firstly that you love and take care of yourself , and secondly , that you give yourself a treat now and then . |
| 3 | ‘ I played nearly as many games in a week for Leicester as I did in six years for Leeds , ’ he says . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Drawing pictures , as I do in this text , can also be helpful . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Their reward could be to find ( as I found in another country ) that chemistry is the most popular subject in the curriculum . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mrs Clinton tells Vanity Fair , apparently without weighing the truth of the charges against Mr Bush : ‘ What Bill does n't understand is you 've got ta do the same thing in response as you do in negative advertising . ’ |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | You can buy what you want there , as long as you pay in good gold . |
| 12 | It is always running in the background as you work in other applications , ready to switch between applications or control a multitasking session . |
| 13 | In her portrait of Medea — or Medee as she becomes in this staging of the original French version — this is what she uses consistently . |
| 14 | In her portrait of Medea — or Medee as she becomes in this staging of the original French version — this is what she uses consistently . |
| 15 | But as she forecast in recent months ( The Art Newspaper No.19 , June 1992 , p.3 ) , Ms Radice believes that sexual content is grounds for a grant 's denial . |
| 16 | Later as she lay in that bed , after she had eaten a meal in a small cheap cafe in New Oxford Street , she squirmed between sheets of a kind she had never seen before , purple knitted nylon . |
| 17 | Frankie watched her now with a mixture of awe and delight as she pranced in little pirouettes around the kitchen . |
| 18 | Dimly his voice reached her as she drew in deep breaths of air . |
| 19 | Such identity and unity as she possessed in these years was essentially the identity and unity of a system of power , though one beginning to decay . |
| 20 | As she moved in that direction , she glanced into the kitchen and caught sight of the clock . |
| 21 | As she observes in this passage , her approach contests traditional assumptions about metaphor , assumptions that have often gone unquestioned by more recent theorists of rhetoric . |
| 22 | ‘ And so , ’ Mr Malik was saying , ‘ we observe the accumulation of gods , very much as one saw in pre-Islamic Medina . |
| 23 | The Public Enemy had been a Warner Bros film and that studio soon went on to consolidate its reputation as one specializing in contemporary themes by releasing I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang . |
| 24 | We await the Light of the World with this powerful symbol underlining for us the real nature of Advent : a time of expectation ‘ as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 25 | In the event of misplacement , as we saw in one patient , immediate removal is possible . |
| 26 | As we saw in this chapter , more recently it has been found that this account of processing can not be correct for at least three reasons : ( a ) there is evidence that syntactic and semantic processing is not delayed until the end of the clause ; ( b ) there is evidence that information about the specific wording is retained after the end of a clause if that clause contains nonspecific words which subsequent clauses will disambiguate ; ( c ) specific wording will also be retained if it has pragmatic significance . |
| 27 | But liberationists like Regan and Clive Hollands ( 1985 ) , as we saw in earlier chapters , scorn this as requiring no more than kindness towards animals ( Hollands , for example , dismissed it as ‘ a Victorian concept ’ ) and demand a great deal more . |
| 28 | As we saw in earlier chapters , CDs are now issued by a wide variety of banks and since 1983 by building societies . |
| 29 | For the Holy Spirit understands not only the mind of the Lord , as we saw in I Corinthians 2 , but the mind of struggling Christians . |
| 30 | I could n't eat , because of the cuts , could n't drink — they were feeding us milk through straws — and my face was beginning to get septicaemia as we lay in this hut with just this little oil- lamp , and the mosquitoes at night would come and sit on the wounds , and I could n't stop thinking about what was going to happen next in my life , and we had no newspapers and I did n't know what was happening and I could n't cry because it pulled the stitches . |