Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As I survey the 25 conflicts raging in different parts of the world , I am haunted by Yeats ' lines : |
2 | ‘ My father was a great reader , ’ I explained , as I have a million times . |
3 | I found your motherboard upgrade article most interesting as I have been thinking of upgrading my XT , but I had not bargained for changing the keyboard as I have a 102 key board ( no XT/AT switch ) . |
4 | Something tightened in my chest as I remembered the two days since I saw Toby last . |
5 | I managed a smile as I read the page-one story : OXFORD BLUE BEATS MOSLEY THUG SAVES LIFE OF JEWISH VICTIM . |
6 | Now , as soon as you have the five answers , and do remember that if you er , did n't hear any of the other ones , they will be repeated next week , so you 'll have a chance to write all the five answers down . |
7 | Now as soon as you have the five answers , and if you have n't heard the other four questions , then there will be a chance , as I said , to hear them again next week , when you 've got the five answers , I 'd like you to send me them on a Christmas card please , this is very , very important send them on a Christmas card please , to the following address . |
8 | As you have an 8:1 compression engine ( or slightly higher if the cylinder head has been skimmed ) set the timing to 3 deg A T D C and the pinking should disappear . |
9 | As soon as you destroy the ninety degree angle you get a parallelogram do n't you ? |
10 | She grew more and more tired and depressed as she walked the fifteen miles back to Flintcomb-Ash , where only hard work awaited her . |
11 | When Sam flopped as she hosted the 1989 Brit pop awards Pat was her shoulder to cry on . |
12 | Urquhart 's face lengthened as she related the two episodes . |
13 | Many of these facts would have been known to Eva as she took the four day journey by train from Cape Town to land-locked Rhodesia . |
14 | She looked up eagerly at the sound of footsteps , but then , as she saw the two women , with an almost human expression of disappointment she turned her head away and with a heavy sigh lowered her head to her paws . |
15 | Looking out of the window on this pleasant Sunday afternoon , she smiled as she saw the three children engaged in various activities at the far end of the garden . |
16 | She bit down hard on her lip as she watched the four girls . |
17 | Even naked , Leo did n't at all seem at a disadvantage , and , as she watched the two men , she finally and forever dispelled any lingering feeling she might have had for Ryan . |
18 | ‘ And the twins are so sweet , ’ she added , giving an almost envious sigh as she watched the two children , each with her own brown paper bag , busy feeding stale bread to the ducks . |
19 | As we rode the four miles to Wuthering Heights , he kept asking me questions about his new home , and the father he had never seen . |
20 | On Saturday 28 September , some of the hardiest souls in London and the surrounding environs took to the footpaths of Battersea Park , got cold(s) , wet , mentally tested and later drunk as they contested the 1991 Amnesty Sponsored Quiz Quest . |
21 | We 'll catch up with her continued efforts in a few weeks time when Zoe Muir reviews the progress of all our healthy lifestylers as they hit the three month mark . |
22 | Sprinter units Nos 150242 and 150230 pass the distant signal for Greenfield as they work the 10.03 Liverpool to Scarborough service on 31 August 1987 . |
23 | ‘ Agnes , as Johnnie said , was always the masterful one , ’ she murmured , as they climbed the two flights of the torchlit turnpike stair . |
24 | ‘ That was lucky , ’ Blake said , as they watched the three prisoners escape from the dungeon . |
25 | The Working Men 's College says today , as it said a hundred years ago : ‘ We seek no greater good than education ; we scorn to justify it save by itself . ’ |
26 | as it crosses the four quarters . |
27 | They are watching me , thought Rupert Stonebird , as he saw the two women walking rather too slowly down the road . |
28 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
29 | Trent almost laughed with relief as he imagined the six-foot-four Customs officer at the wheel , empty pipe jammed between his teeth . |
30 | Whenever he thought of that first blind delicious sensation , as he had a hundred times that morning , he had to close his eyes . |