Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The earth never quite moved for me in the Dante Sonata as I thought at one stage it might . |
2 | And er there r there are no real er gentry in Orkney you see , and you 'll always find that if anybody gets a a a Well as I said to one boy here , I said to him look here I said your old grandfather worked in that shop till his backside was hanging out his brigs . |
3 | Electroluminescent backlighting , lasting 10 hours between charges , gives a clear display even in total darkness , as I discovered on one dive to 36 metres . |
4 | I found it very useful when working with desktop applications as I jumped from one application to another with the minimum of fuss . |
5 | One as I say for seventy crackers . |
6 | When I stayed with my husband and children at the Holcombe Hotel in Oxfordshire on the Great Escapes scheme this summer I was told I would get free accommodation as long as I stayed for two nights and paid for dinner and breakfast at a cost of £33.20 each per day . |
7 | ‘ I played nearly as many games in a week for Leicester as I did in six years for Leeds , ’ he says . |
8 | As I pulled through 15 feet of brittle biscuit flakes to get at a wickedly inaccessible peg , my sack kept jamming in the bottle-walled groove . |
9 | As I stood on one foot to remove them , the little cabin shifted on its suspension but there was no embarrassment , not even in the disparity between the utility of our underwear and the transcendence of our desire . |
10 | As you come within two months of the examination period you should try to answer a complete past examination paper under your simulated conditions , which , by now , should be so familiar that all trace of tenseness and nervousness will have vanished . |
11 | and you can go on it anywhere as far as you like for forty pence . |
12 | But you do n't walk far in Oloron without coming to one or other river ; both flow over weirs and both are well below street or house level so that there is the sound of water and a feeling of modest elevation everywhere , as well as regular riverside prospects from the various bridges as you cross from one part of town to the other . |
13 | Her pregnancy thankfully gave her a little relief from the enormous output normally expected of her , and her stay with the Franklins was a welcome respite from the boredom and loneliness of being on her own , as she wrote on 9 January : |
14 | His arrival seemed to set the conveyor belt in motion , and she lost all track of time as she dealt with one actor after another , flinching every time the door opened , yet aware of a peculiar emptiness when Dane failed to show up . |
15 | Picture her , Tabitha Jute : not as the net media show her , heroine of hyperspace , capable , canny and cosmetically enhanced , smiling confidently as she reaches with one hand for the spangled mist of the Milky Way ; but a small , weary young woman in a cracked foil jacket and oil-stained trousers , determinedly elbowing herself through an exuberant Schiaparelli crowd . |
16 | In the event of misplacement , as we saw in one patient , immediate removal is possible . |
17 | For the Holy Spirit understands not only the mind of the Lord , as we saw in I Corinthians 2 , but the mind of struggling Christians . |
18 | There is , however , a bigger variation of meaning as we go from one group to another . |
19 | Whispers filled the coach as we drove along Ten Bel 's tree-lined entrance . |
20 | If we fail to do so , economic policies will remain more show than substance and the unemployed , the low-paid and others on low incomes , as well as manufacturing industries and small businesses , will continue to suffer as we lurch from one recession to the next . |
21 | Erm Romans verse and verse four you notice this text is taken from verse twelve , rejoice in the hope and then persevering prayer , but if you go into verse four , what it 's speaking about there , but just as we have in one body many , members , but the members do not all have the same function and then in six to eight he goes on to describe that we all have gifts do n't we differing according to the undeserved kindness given to us , whether er so forth and so faith , ministry , erm teaching , exhorting , all these different gifts , though sometimes if a particular brother or sister does n't have a particular gift and we think well you know that 's a bit hard going I ca n't seem to listen to them , that 's an area perhaps where we could erm be quivering could n't we , or complaining , especially about assignments , you might get speakers that come here from other congregations , and some are better than others are n't they ? |
22 | In a way contradictory objectives become self-defeating because as we move towards one objective we move away from the other . |
23 | Notice how meaning becomes more and more slippery as we move from one layer to the next . |
24 | One of those interesting questions is , for example , the relationship between column H and column I and the way in which those relationships change as we move from one district to another . |
25 | All she got was a glimpse of the empty Pyrenees , and the tiny concentrated ball of the rising sun , alternately revealed and hidden as they crossed from one face to another with first one peak throwing its dark bulk between them and then another . |
26 | A colleague from Christian Aid phoned me from Addis Ababa last night and he reported what had happened in the Red Sea port of Assab on Saturday which was when 15 trucks and trailers were loaded each with 22 tons of U N grain and there was a little ceremony as they left at 12 noon for Desai . |
27 | The Cherry and Whites kicked off with a win in their first game … more like a romp as they ran in 45 points against Casale … |
28 | Being a Silver Jubilee , passengers were serenaded by the Eccleston Silver Band as they rode behind four steam locomotives in a range of stock from our own home made coach to a Welsh coach from our No. 1 steam engine 's home of Llanberis to the diminutive but delightful Groudle Glen coach from the Isle of Man . |
29 | Simmo , who has become a favourite of pupils of Hurworth Primary School , near Darlington , described the slow build up to the conflict and the dangers they encountered as they came within four miles of the Kuwaiti coast . |
30 | As they drove along Three Springs Road , Juliet suddenly realised they did n't know Miss Rose 's address ! |