Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [be] [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I am writing these words , I have a persistent , low-pitched hum in my left ear . |
| 2 | As I was typing these words , a young friend phoned to tell me about the wonderful summer holiday he had just had with his father . |
| 3 | ( 8 ) Audiotext Harvard OTC ) " They are expanding their telephone lines dramatically , as they are getting several times the number of calls they had anticipated . " |
| 4 | Same as all farm work , see , farm work They do n't know as they 're born these days , these youngsters do n't , when they come to talking about farming . |
| 5 | The Palestinians were fighting their way forward — as they were to do many times in the future — in the wrong direction . |
| 6 | It 's all good-humoured teasing and winding up , and for my part I 've long since ceased to care whether or not anyone regards me as the worst climber in the world or some sort of antediluvian relic with no rights to any opinion on ‘ rock climbing as it is done these days . ’ |
| 7 | But the first thing that 's the first thing to bear in mind , the first thing to bear in mind of course is had our previous proposals in other years been accepted Mr Mayor we would need it as it were to make these cuts from this year . |
| 8 | Fernandez , as he was to do some years later , provided a link to Dave 's caddying days with one Severiano Ballesteros . |