Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] that [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian , we 've been hearing and seeing and been challenged and accepting Christ as our saviour and over the week in Harlow a number made that response and not only in Harlow and in Earls Court but right across the country and into Europe and into Africa as well , through the , through the life link , men and women who have been challenged into accepting Jesus Christ as their saviour and I 'd like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian now obviously as we perhaps know er , and , and , and God work clearly shows to us that it is not in being religion , somebody well said that religion is man 's attempt to find God but the gospel is God 's method of seeking out and finding men and so just as the same as you 've seen that bridge of life illustration and we try with our planks to get across to God we ca n't make it , |
2 | As long as you 've got that contract and that deposit cheque that 's the crunch . |
3 | Well , I 'll let you go as soon as you 've finished that cup . ’ |
4 | The only activity Gerald had forbidden her was the embroidery of tapestry , which he had declared too menial an occupation for a young lady of her intelligence , preferring her to accompany him on his visits to neighbouring landlords as she had done that day . |
5 | The same glorious sensation as she had felt that instant when , poised on the highest diving-board , she had known that this time she really did dare , that moment of poise and thrill before the free-fall . |
6 | She was in flight from it — as she had imagined that woman in the rain in flight . |
7 | But assumptions , as she 'd discovered that day , could be dangerous , and Isabelle had never actually stated where she was born . |
8 | The words rang again in Sally-Anne 's head as they had done that afternoon in her aunt 's pretty drawing-room once Mrs Greville had gone . |
9 | In the past , religious beliefs have served as a presupposition of the scientific enterprise insofar as they have underwritten that uniformity . |
10 | Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine . |
11 | The employee top 10 features those companies which are expanding fastest , and it says something for the performance of WPP that it has managed to perform well in eps and return on capital terms at the same time as it has achieved that expansion . |
12 | As he was getting into the train , Jordi smiled and shrugged as he had done that night in Valladolid when the secret police had led him away . |
13 | He would stand in the corridor which ran along past the junior classrooms , as he had done that morning , and listen to the lessons being given . |
14 | Half Moon Crescent , he had repeated and repeated to himself as he 'd walked that night . |