Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 But I know enough about myself to know that as long as I get eight hours sleep I 'm alright ’ .
2 And as I had this urge to correct manuscripts as I went along , and could n't read his handwriting , and did n't know the first thing about Roman Britain , you can imagine he felt obliged to educate me .
3 As I said this morning does n't oppose er in principle the idea of of of er an exceptions policy .
4 I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me .
5 My cynicism about the event burgeoned as I walked past stalls displaying rustic-effect patio furniture , cushion covers embroidered with pheasants , and the kind of waxed country overwear that is increasingly seen sported by commuters on the tube these days .
6 Oh right erm but er well you can , you can get away without , without buying stuff erm I mean as I , as I say some people do end up sharing erm some people do end up , not that there 's very much library stock very often but , you know , some people do
7 Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that .
8 I hope it works as I admire any attempt to bring a book more awareness .
9 Also it may be a godsend to you because as soon as you drive that car becomes yours .
10 Johnson is 50 , Melville is 41 and sometimes as you hear this playground talk about sex you hear echoes of a world ignorant of Aids .
11 And as you know binary decoders list all the possible states of the input erm conditions .
12 As you know American cinema installed air conditioning in the fifties and that re erm late fifties , early sixties and that re revived the American cinema er because people do n't go abroad so much in America .
13 Use this knowledge of God 's care as you spend some moments praying through the issues you have isolated in the points above .
14 Towelling herself , she looked out of the window , and paused as she noticed two figures climbing up a path that wound up the side of the mountain .
15 It was lucky for her that she was so busy just then , as she had little time to think during the day , and at night she was so tired that she fell asleep directly she got into bed .
16 She felt towards her religion as she imagined some women felt towards their dreary , loveless marriages : something trying , but inescapable ; cluttered with apparently futile chores , yet from which there was no question of escaping .
17 In this latest attack a nineteen year old woman was sexually assaulted as she crossed this footbridge walking home .
18 Elation battled with fear as she watched various expressions chase across his face .
19 It was tedious , but no longer alarming , and as she contrived most mornings to slip down to the shore for gulps of sea air , though she was careful now never to go beyond the rocks around the headland , she did not chafe at the confinement as once she had .
20 He was in jeans and a white shirt open at the neck , the sleeves rolled up over powerful brown arms , and Jenna experienced an unexpected shiver as she remembered those arms holding her yesterday .
21 Marion Conroy was on stage until the final curtain calls and came up the stairs with the rest of the cast afterwards , observing as she did that Pepper went into his No. 2 and shut the door but that Cissy opened it and went in after him , the wide-eyed babyish stare that was the caricaturists ' joy quite absent .
22 As we saw modern Marxists have reworked their theory to account for these changes while still maintaining the centrality of Marx 's original insights .
23 Second , crime is accepted to be a legal category — no attempt is being made to propose , as we saw some positivists tried to do , that we can arrive at some more objective conception that stands above the acts of human deliberation that constitute the process of legal definition .
24 and vital that we do n't and just as we said this morning said we would n't preempt and pre-judge the community of the St Albans District Council on the er on the transportation study .
25 As we get older reality requires that the ideal and the self are reconciled ; ambitions are relaxed ; unrealistic goals are abandoned as time and opportunity compel us to change the idealized concept we have for ourselves .
26 A and perhaps instead of employing Mr last year er as we did last year to do management development , this year we could have er safety development as being
27 In later periods of life I have deplored , as we have all reason to do , a subjugation of an opposite character , and have rejoiced over the remembrances .
28 He says neither of us is really a trained gardener … we 're very lucky as we have two experts trained at Kew and Wisbech who live locally and tell us what to do .
29 Just as we need sensible rules to regulate our economic behaviour , so we need firmly and fairly applied laws to ensure that we can go about our lives in freedom and security .
30 With a dado rail you would hang all of one type first , but we did n't do this as we needed both pieces wet so we could cut right through the overlap point with a sharp knife and remove both pieces of waste to leave a perfect butt joint .
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