Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [adv] that [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ They 're all coming except Hywel , ’ said Lydia as she returned later that evening . |
2 | Looking into her churning heart as she stood there that night , she knew she felt an affection for the man opposite and believed he had some affection for her . |
3 | But as we said earlier that some of us who have been in the truth for a long time we were like that years ago , but somewhere along the line we 've become drowsy and a little sort of halfhearted and maybe dozing a little bit as we go down that sort of motorway er of spirituality and that , that the longer you go it can become more difficult because other things come along do n't they ? |
4 | But yeah he probably come past no he probably went up there as we come down that corner by erm Ipsleigh and when they come back we 'd probably gotten here by then . |
5 | ‘ At nights , ’ said the Canadian , ‘ it was so cold that you could n't sleep at all , and about dawn you 'd hear the shots as they knocked off that day 's quota of Frenchmen out in the yard . ’ |
6 | Images are powerful and subliminal , and this one was quite discriminatory as it projected precisely that Family of which society so approves . |
7 | Mark was sick at heart as he drove home that evening . |
8 | The lights died altogether , and he was forced to use precious seconds to dig a small torch from his pocket , even as he wondered why that explosion had come early . |
9 | I kept imagining him talking and laughing and thinking what his last thoughts would have been as he travelled along that road . ’ |