Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are gas masks , ration books , lots of soldiers , sailors and airmen and hordes of pretty girls , plus some ladies dressed just as I remember my own mother and Auntie Ethel ! |
| 2 | ‘ You 're too proud , ’ I scolded him as I brushed his black hair . |
| 3 | The white tube , the cork-effect filter , the solid hot flare of the match and my lips tell me of my lungs as I make my own smoke , with its blue drifting and acrid smell . |
| 4 | The organist and I finished more or less together and I turned to him for reassurance as I announced my next song : ‘ And now , ‘ ’ Summer Time' ’ . ' |
| 5 | And some silly woman crashed her tray to the floor just as I made my second entrance — disgraceful ! ’ |
| 6 | As I told my hon. Friend the Member for Batley and Spen ( Mrs. Peacock ) , we do not need to raise taxes ; the Labour party does . |
| 7 | I washed quickly in freezing cold , icy water , Breakfast was skilly as usually , and I was still starving as I began my three mile trek to the work site . |
| 8 | As I pondered my professional future with the company in the late Sixties , the self doubts did n't go away easily . |
| 9 | ‘ I always found it very funny when I was referred to as Mr Laura Ashley , especially as I hated my own name , Bernard . ’ |
| 10 | Eleven o'clock , there were n't restrictions then on , they could keep open as long as they liked , no restrictions on , on time , and er as I say their own place you know it really it was picturesque , I thought in since erm I contacted you I 've been thinking how , what I could help with and er what I could still think about , and er it was really a sight because to walk and it always used to be crowded , well it was one of the best markets round here and er people used to go off and from Bloxwich and er although there 's a good market at Walsall there was n't a Bloxwich market then sadly for years and years , but erm and then if you went to Wolverhampton you got to walk through Windsfield you got to er walk everywhere you went then and except on a Saturday night when the wagonettes used to run on a Saturday but it was amazing to see the girl behind the range now controlling |
| 11 | What I felt I was doing , as I dressed my shivering body in layer upon layer , was protecting myself . |
| 12 | As I entered my fourth lustre , it became evident that I was not going to fulfil my early promise . |
| 13 | ‘ I do , ’ I said , ‘ in my own ward and when I can special a patient right through , as I did my classic pneumonia girl in Hope a few weeks ago . |
| 14 | I have always loved him , as I do my whole family . |
| 15 | As long as I maintained my own security . |
| 16 | As I wheeled my tenth-hand push-bike through the gates of the Parsons ' large detached house and made my way across the gravel forecourt past the guests ' Volvos and Audis , I began to feel uncomfortably out of my depth . |
| 17 | His smile , as I recounted my terrifying encounter — I am an arachnophobe — implied that there were worse things in life than having a spider wandering over one 's hair . |
| 18 | I was rewarded by several admiring looks as I paid my sizeable bill and blundered out , sweating , into the fog . |
| 19 | ‘ Much as I admire your unstructured lifestyle , on the evidence of the knees in those jeans I 'd think twice before I traded bank accounts with you . ’ |
| 20 | Or as you shut your front door and panic for a minute , thinking you have left your keys inside , you hear yourself say ‘ It 's all right . |
| 21 | An attack can be brought on by sudden exposure to very cold air but as long as you take your usual medication/inhaler ( with a spare refill ) along with you , there is no reason why you should get into any trouble . |
| 22 | We 'll keep the crowds back as you wash your dirty linen in public . |
| 23 | So a television picture changed at the same time as you saw your ex-lover walking down the road opposite . |
| 24 | ‘ I will be as soon as you get your fat self outta here . ’ |
| 25 | I mean today , you 've got to be an educated man to know how to even , they 've got er tractors and everything , but in those days you 'd got to set your plough furrow out so as you you could run your plough down your first one , and then as you as you ploughed your first furrow out you 'd got to plough your next one into it . |
| 26 | And speak your own language , please : we 'll even teach it to you in our schools to prove how understanding we are , just so long as you do our dirty work for less wages than our own kind are prepared to accept : just so long as you keep yourselves to yourselves , and do n't let your children marry ours , because what we 're all terrified of , so terrified the word 's gone out of the vocabulary . |
| 27 | Probably the first thing that strikes you is the layout of the screen — there are dotted lines indicating the text 's margins , and as you type your purple prose , you notice that every space is marked by a little spot . |
| 28 | These ‘ Jewels of Creation ’ are free to flutter as you discover their intriguing life story in a journey past unusual plants , set in a landscape to create a natural environment of leaf and flower for these fantastic creatures . |
| 29 | As you approach your selected wave concentrate on getting up as much speed as possible and unhook from your harness . |
| 30 | As you explore its cobbled street lined with bow-fronted shops and Georgian-fronted houses you 're sure to discover the old Mermaid Inn , once the haunt of smugglers . |