Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One feels that two hours spent in one or other of the jammed little rooms — there are four as far as I remember at this instance , two down , one up , and one in the cellar — will be rewarding , refreshing , and never questioned by the owners . |
| 2 | As I wrote on this page recently , opera is barely a living art form any longer . |
| 3 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 4 | As I sit at this word processor , the chips of which may have been assembled by a young woman in the Philippines for a pittance a day and for such long hours that her eyes will be damaged in a tax haven created specially for foreign companies , I am acutely aware of the link between the health of the people of the Philippines and my life here in Britain . |
| 5 | Well but I mean that 's an example and as I say at this end where you 've no arousal you 're either asleep or dead , there 's no sort of performance performance of any sort and we talk about having those butterflies in the stomach do n't we ? |
| 6 | ‘ I 've never eaten as well as I have on this trip . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Drawing pictures , as I do in this text , can also be helpful . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Erm first of all , as I grapple with this problem over the weekend , it did seem to me very difficult to make any sensible assessment of integration on a at a strategic level because so clearly it is a site specific matter . |
| 11 | AS YOU yawn through this week 's promo-treadmill that is Wogan and wonder why Parkinson went to Australia , imagine , if you will , an interview programme with one guest , a shot of the interviewer 's back only , no stairs and the sort of questions that make grown men break down and cry . |
| 12 | As you play through this passage you should be careful with the position shift occurring on the third 16th note ( beat three ) of bar one . |
| 13 | As you play through this section , take care to avoid any undue handling noise . |
| 14 | As you work on this colour , the whole design area of the screen will change colour at the same time . |
| 15 | This does not mean that you should be morbid and spend each day thinking about your own death but , as you journey through this life , you will come to form your own ideas about what is to follow . |
| 16 | In her portrait of Medea — or Medee as she becomes in this staging of the original French version — this is what she uses consistently . |
| 17 | In her portrait of Medea — or Medee as she becomes in this staging of the original French version — this is what she uses consistently . |
| 18 | As she advanced into this room full of teenagers , pretending not to smell the rich aroma of Acapulco Gold , gracefully rippling the caftan of pink flowered silk which she considered appropriately hip casual wear , the kids all stopped what they were doing and collected admiringly around her . |
| 19 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Erm , so what I 'm saying you know , as we go through this stuff , you , you , if you , if you discover that you do n't like some of it , you know , you 're not supposed to . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As we switch to this system , two charges may initially appear on the same statement . |
| 25 | We had tried to get a couple of er , here in Portsmouth but he had to attend , so we thought as we prepared for this conference this morning er , on the miners , that it would be appropriate to get a miner 's lamp to put and have them simply inscribed with the erm , the memory of the occasion , which turned out to be |
| 26 | As we reported in this space in January , World Cup broadcast managers TSL did the United States ' game a disservice by making a deal with a network which showed the World Cup final almost four months after it was played . |
| 27 | So let's just , as we hurry along this morning notice several things about this interview that this man had with Jesus . |
| 28 | So lets just as we hurry along this morning notice several things about this interview that this man had with Jesus . |
| 29 | I wish I could forget two London concerts he gave shortly before he died , but I prefer to remember him through performances as brilliant , powerful and exciting as we have on this set . ( ) |
| 30 | Civil government is designed , as long as we live in this world , to cherish and support the external worship of God ; to preserve the pure doctrine of religion , to defend the constitutions of the church , to regulate our lives in a manner requisite for the society of man , to form our manners to civil justice , to promote our concord with each other , and to establish general peace and tranquillity … |