Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as I 've done two tapes minimum |
| 2 | Well , like I say , it 's not erm an ambition really of mine it 's a challenge of a lifetime because I 've never liked running and I decided that as I started running two years ago that er the marathon was the ultimate , and as it 's the ultimate challenge I thought what I 'm asking and why I 've asked to come in to FOX F M is to er ask the businesses of Bicester to help me er raise money for the er Bicester Health Centre , and also for the Bible School boys sponsoring me . |
| 3 | As I have emphasised three times , the previous Select Committee on Health and Social Services made a number of pleas to the Government not to get us into the position that we are in now . |
| 4 | Somehow we survived it all , just as I have survived 20 years of a lead-piped water supply and a further 20 years as an adult working in a concrete hut insulated on the inside with sprayed-on asbestos ; to say nothing of a like period supervising students using the Haldane gas analysis apparatus , a machine that not infrequently spewed mercury from its taps into the air , whence it fell onto the bench , or sometimes the floor , to be duly swept up by the lab boy at the end of the session for recovery . |
| 5 | as long as you 've got two hands and you can work for money you 'll never bloody win any . |
| 6 | As she had suffered one setback after another-no money , another still birth , one or other of the boys in trouble with the police — she had turned more and more to the church . |
| 7 | You always knew when a child was lying , by the light in the child 's eyes , as she 'd discovered twenty-seven years ago with her own Winnie . |
| 8 | I think what we should do , as we 've got two papers on similar topics , is er take any questions that are specifically related to the t to this paper and the , the methods used in this paper , and then after the next paper have , have both speakers up to address the topic er of er of timing of follow up cystoscopies . |
| 9 | A garage would be nice and as we 've got two cars so although a garage is vital if we as long as we can get them off the road that would be an advantage |
| 10 | The procedural issues which inflamed the politicians left most voters cold , as they had done seventeen years earlier in the referendum campaign of 1945 . |
| 11 | In the first of two reports , we look at the difficulties facing people with head injuries , as they learn to take one day at a time . |
| 12 | He chose to support them as they have helped two members of his family recover from heart disease in recent years . |
| 13 | Does n't matter what it looks like as long as it 's got five sides that join together without gaps . |
| 14 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |
| 15 | Much as he had done seven times before . |
| 16 | Characteristically , however , Chapman was to learn from the defeat , just as he had done twenty years before after Northampton 's defeat by Norwich . |
| 17 | He 's always been a gentle little soul , very loving and friendly with everyone , but as he had to spend 3–4 hours every day on his own at home , we thought we would get another dog as company for him . |
| 18 | Alan Murphy , 25 , from Alexandria , Strathclyde , told the Princess he was exercising to put on weight as he had lost six stones after breaking his back in a car crash . |
| 19 | Even love , as he had explained five years before in a poem briskly called ‘ Love ’ ( 1966 ) , calls for a lot of cheek : ‘ … the blind persistence/To upset an existence/Just for your own sake . ’ |
| 20 | It was not an easy task for the coalman to make deliveries as he had to lump one hundredweight sacks , right through the house , down three steps , duck to miss the top of the door frame to the scullery , then a mighty heave to deposit coal costing one shilling a hundredweight in the exact spot . |
| 21 | But after Monaco , a real miracle did occur : Stanley said to forget the rest of the payments to the team — as long as he agreed to stay two seasons more . |
| 22 | Lord Owen spoke during a break in talks at Medjugorje , a Bosnian Roman Catholic pilgrimage town , as he tried to end eight days of fighting between Moslems and Croats in the city of Mostar . |
| 23 | That 's the theory which Neil Prosser follows , anyway , and as he 's got 16 years of successful retailing behind him , it 's hard to argue with the strategy . |