Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember nothing whatever about the match , as I passed out thirty yards from the ground . |
| 2 | As I said on second reading , this House is the ultimate guardian of the constitutional liberties of the British people . |
| 3 | I saw his boat in the basin as I came along this morning . |
| 4 | ‘ I received it as I came out this morning and I did n't have time to open it . ’ |
| 5 | As I walked down one side of the hall , keeping close to the sides , and scurrying past the classroom doors , I felt my face grow hot . |
| 6 | Either I had been put to bed , I thought , as I woke up next morning , in the wee cold room at the top of the house , or my standard drunk-person 's on-board auto-pilot facility was improving with experience . |
| 7 | As I turned around each time I could see Mark crouching in the snow . |
| 8 | As I pointed out last month , ACT surrendered from a holding company is not available for carry-back in the recipient subsidiary . |
| 9 | The lesson which can be learnt from South Africa regarding professionalism then seems to be that , as I pointed out last month , there is a contradiction in allowing a mercenary spirit to dominate an amateur game . |
| 10 | ‘ Nowadays , as you found out this evening , it 's big business that rules the sport . |
| 11 | After all , " he added , smiling at Grace as she brought in another pot of tea , " my poor bewildered senses have already suffered one assault at the hands of your delicious mother . " |
| 12 | They danced in front of her as she went up Long Field , following Joe and the horse and heaving old broad bean haulms into the cart . |
| 13 | It was easy to imagine the sparkle in Sophie 's eyes as she snapped up this morsel . |
| 14 | Nina said as she handed round steaming mugs . |
| 15 | Aileen Gillies was all brisk agreement as she wrapped up some food in a cloth and gave it to them while her husband busied himself with laying the fire . |
| 16 | ‘ You know , you sure are different from the way I 'd imagined you , ’ she said in her slow drawl as she poured out fresh drinks for them both . |
| 17 | And as we brought out first thing this morning , communication within the group , that is across the functions , and also in some cases within the functions , is poor . |
| 18 | We might be given the first few pages to be going on with , and as we went along more pages would arrive . |
| 19 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 20 | It is a condition to us receiving the special transitional grant , and as we carried out last year , with drafting the agreement , we have a very short period of time in which to put the agreement together . |
| 21 | On the field a fortnight ago we unfortunately caught Frampton Rovers on a good day as they ran out 5–1 victors . |
| 22 | ‘ At nights , ’ said the Canadian , ‘ it was so cold that you could n't sleep at all , and about dawn you 'd hear the shots as they knocked off that day 's quota of Frenchmen out in the yard . ’ |
| 23 | They shared the same sense of humour as long as they kept off delicate subjects like sexism . |
| 24 | And even as they fouled up long-held theories on what was sexy , they gave a whole new dimension to perceptions of ‘ womanhood ’ . |
| 25 | Warmed by Coleman 's sympathy , El-Jorr made a point of introducing him to all the CIs and ‘ mules ’ who arrived at Eurame on their way back and forth along the pipeline , including him in the conversation as they brewed up endless cups of Lebanese coffee . |
| 26 | As they sat down one BOR retaliated by asking for a special item from the Baptist villagers . |
| 27 | Middlesbrough showed their battling qualities as they soaked up strong second-half pressure , and even survived a hotly disputed penalty . |
| 28 | This means that the value of a firm would indeed rise as it took on more debt because it was paying less of its earnings out to the taxman . |
| 29 | Pte Clegg is one of six members of 3 Para on trial charged in connection with the deaths of the two teenagers , shot dead by soldiers who opened fire on the car as it sped along Upper Glen Road , Belfast , on September 30 , 1990 . |
| 30 | He had the car heater on and the whirring as it blew out hot air was beginning to annoy him . |