Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [adv] this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As I said earlier this year , there will not be enough of any one crop to give self-sufficiency , but the contribution this small plot has made to the good budget has ten times repaid the outlay on seeds and materials . |
2 | I saw his boat in the basin as I came along this morning . |
3 | ‘ I received it as I came out this morning and I did n't have time to open it . ’ |
4 | Notice as you walk up this path the difference between the plantation on the left , which has a mixture of broadleaf and coniferous trees , and that on the right which is mostly pine . |
5 | On the right as you come down this way , on the left if you go out there |
6 | I would like to say something at some point about the point I made earlier about going , increasingly as you go down this list , you depart in directions which are , er , contrary to your policies , but |
7 | The descriptions can be as varied as you like along this sort of theme , providing the adventurers with something to think over as they approach the Castle . |
8 | ‘ Nowadays , as you found out this evening , it 's big business that rules the sport . |
9 | It was easy to imagine the sparkle in Sophie 's eyes as she snapped up this morsel . |
10 | But as soon as we bring up this question … we come up against a ‘ sore subject ’ . |
11 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
12 | Lord God , as we set about this work , we ask that you will lead us step by step . |
13 | As we heat up this mixture , its temperature increases to point C. It then boils . |
14 | Yes , as soon as he got off this hill . |