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 .
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