Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [adv] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you probably read in the quality press , FIMBRA are always being taken to task for er not spotting investment groups that have gone too far , er and er when you get the collapse of something like the Levitt group erm which you 'll be aware of perhaps was the er sort of boxing and impresario type route that was taken by the man in the dicky bow . |
| 2 | It 's perfectly easy to take your clothes off — it 's much harder to expose yourself emotionally , to render yourself vulnerable before another person — as you assuredly do in the expression of yourself and your needs in a sexual relationship . |
| 3 | Mary de Wint ranked with Mrs Fields in seniority , though , as she never worked in the Hall , when Mrs Fields was off Staff Nurse Robins , the next in line , took her place . |
| 4 | Arabella drove through the archway , revving the engine far too high , as she always did in the lower gears . |
| 5 | Indeed , as we also saw in the last chapter , one recent writer ( Jenkins , 1984 ) portrays Beccaria 's postponement of the positivist revolution as being anti-radical and supportive of existing authoritarian rulers . |
| 6 | Rather than focus on women as part-time workers to explain their lack of pensions as we often do in the UK , Russell 's approach adopts a structural explanation . |
| 7 | No-one spoke for five minutes as they both glorified in the sun and the light fresh breeze . |
| 8 | As well as strengthening the role of governors , the 1986 Act made it impossible for political nominees to control governing bodies , as they often had in the past , while the 1988 Act transfers the management of most schools from local education authorities ( LEAs ) to the individual school . |
| 9 | As Fidelma got Agatha into bed , they looked at each other with honesty as they always did in the end . |
| 10 | As they usually occur in the afternoon , the learners may be tired and sleepy after a busy morning and a big lunch . |
| 11 | I shall readily contribute any thing in my Power , tho' I fear that is very little : But , upon making a thorough Search among my Papers , I have found Two or Three of hers , that were mislaid when the other were sent to Mrs. J … ; which I here send you , with two or three Copies wrote in her Childhood , that have since been alter 'd as they now stand in the printed Book |
| 12 | Organisations will call in the experts when things go wrong , as they now call in the people who install and mend lifts , photocopiers and the vending machines that dispense undrinkable fluids . |
| 13 | If the safeguards we propose are adopted , we are confident this can work as successfully as it already does in the magistrates ’ and county courts . ’ |
| 14 | Or act as it actually says in the constitution , the president shall be commander in chief of the army and navy of the United States and of the militia of the several states erm there was n't an airforce then so by extension it 's assumed that he commands the airforce as well . |
| 15 | It is as if , out of nowhere , his voice had spoken in the room , as it once did in the lane . |
| 16 | As to the first question , it is evident that the working-class movement has had a profound influence upon the extension of the suffrage and the creation of mass parties ( which will be examined further in Chapter 2 ) , and hence upon the establishment of a democratic political regime as it now exists in the advanced capitalist countries . |
| 17 | Dusk was falling swiftly , as it always does in the tropics , and the silence that had so impressed me by daylight suddenly became noisy with the night life of the jungly-type trees in the mountains behind-the bull frogs , strange bird cries , the never-ending background of the cicadas . |
| 18 | When he slept there , as he occasionally did in the classroom on the ground floor known for some mysterious reason as the ‘ Remove ’ , he could hear the trains run past the end of the garden and to him it was the most romantic sound in the world . |
| 19 | He went to bed to dream uneasily , and woke early as he always did in the early stages of a case before he had got the machine working properly . |
| 20 | As she heard him come back she refrained from looking out of her window , nor did she go down to the corridor outside his room when , a little later , she heard him groaning as he always did in the grip of a nightmare . |
| 21 | Here , he brings that short-breathed talent to as effective account as he sometimes did in The Great Rock ‘ n Role Swindle , his first film . |
| 22 | He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper . |