Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I hope it works as I admire any attempt to bring a book more awareness . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He glanced up as they completed this transaction to find the attention of the nearest two tables , both exclusively male , fixed disbelievingly on them . |
| 10 | Since then , cavity walls have been the norm as they offer better resistance to rain and damp penetration and have better sound and thermal characteristics . |
| 11 | An organisation will be effective only so far as it helps individual members to achieve their own personal objectives , and a large part of the task of management is therefore concerned with this problem . |
| 12 | She said : ‘ Teleworking is innovative as it allows qualified women to come back to work in senior positions . |
| 13 | As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations . |
| 14 | Just as it requires careful planning to ensure the correct orientation of a pedagogical grammar , so the progression of the lessons too must be carefully planned . |
| 15 | As it happened American efforts to restrict Japanese expansion precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 . |
| 16 | Even so , the campaign was not entirely counter-productive , as it compelled senior management to recognize that the long history of conflictual , low-trust industrial relations necessitated a gradual , processual approach to modifying company culture rather than structural reorganization alone . |
| 17 | Chamomile makes a good lawn , provided it does not have too much traffic on it , but should be used for small areas , as it needs constant attention to keep weeds at bay , but it will have the advantage of remaining green in dry conditions . |
| 18 | Peter Rogers , who produced all the movies , told me that he said that as long as he had enough money to keep himself and his mother he was happy . |
| 19 | Anne managed to get a few days off work during his ten-day leave , and as he had few relatives to visit , they were able to spend blissful hours alone . |
| 20 | I told him I had planned to take him to lunch but he said he could n't wait as he had some business to attend to , but he 'd be in a pub called the Banker if I could pick him up about three . |
| 21 | Then , he let out a groan and sank into a chair , his hands over his face and his shoulders heaving as he made superhuman efforts to contain his shock and grief . |
| 22 | As he made furious attempts to shake them off , a sheet of orange abruptly whooshed and enveloped the car . |