Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb base] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can hassle for business contacts in these areas at conferences as soon as I get to a conference . |
| 2 | But sometimes I get cut up by another vehicle as I go for a space — and it 's always a man . ’ |
| 3 | It is a truth which I can never now forget as I go about a world in which human beings apparently have themselves under control . |
| 4 | As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink . |
| 5 | As I kneel in a kind of mourning , someone calls . |
| 6 | On my way to my London flat , as I walk through a passageway leading from the Strand to Charing Cross underground station , I pass two young men sitting on a sheet on the floor and begging . |
| 7 | Oh it is now yes , you 've got , I mean you 've got the service now have n't you and erm , but I like at St Margaret 's hospital I 'd been , I had been , I went in there to have my last boy , but they 're very , very good there they were , I 've not been in , I 've been in , I 've had treatment here for my hip and that up at Harlow but they would n't do the operation because of my blood clotting you see , so therefore I 've got to grin and bear it , I 've had eight years of it , I could n't walk for six months , but now I struggle and get around as I say with a couple of sticks I get round |
| 8 | As I lie in a ditch during the short rest and watch Jake the Algerian move along the road just ahead of me exclaiming ‘ A la attack ’ , a voice from somewhere along the road shouts , ‘ Oh , piss off ’ . |
| 9 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 10 | As I work as a mechanic on diesel engines I had the opportunity of testing the output of the ‘ W ’ terminal , and it was , as the text books said , 7 to 8 volts . |
| 11 | As I work on a painting , whether it 's a bird of prey , a rare mammal or even rare habitat , I wonder how many more are left in the wild . |
| 12 | As I work in a distribution depot I can not use the vouchers at my ‘ place of work ’ . |
| 13 | You are presented with a blank crossword and a list of clues , and as you click on a square the relevant clue is highlighted . |
| 14 | Keep an eye on the local press and as soon as you hear of a church closing , make an approach to the vicar as soon as possible . |
| 15 | Another accident we had with an a wardrobe two of my lads had which was a funny one in retrospect but I some when you carry a wardrobe , funnily enough , the easiest way often if you 've got a tight corner , you know as you go round a corner in a staircase you 'll come from a landing and often turn right or turn left to go down , if you put it at an angle like that then you wo n't get it round the corner without catching the bannister . |
| 16 | You know , that 's in the days when I was seventeen year old , I could go'n stick a fork into a truss weighing into eleven stone and pitch thet up high as you like with a fork , as high as I could reach . |
| 17 | You can say as much as you like in a letter and it will not cost you any more than the price of a stamp . |
| 18 | In the middle of Bangalore , as you thread through a jungle of exotic trees and overgrown ornamental gardens , cross long neglected croquet lawns , tennis courts and disused summer houses , you are confronted with Windsor Castle , or at least a very passable facsimile locked up and in pawn to the Government to pay Royal debts . |
| 19 | It 's an amusing game however , as you struggle for a seat out of the wind at the cairn to eat your peanut butter sandwiches , trying to guess which way everyone will go when they smack their lips , wipe their hands on their breeches and get up to leave . |
| 20 | Or for a romantic touch , you can see many more of them beautifully illuminated from the rivers as you cruise on a boat over dinner . |
| 21 | Orientate this drawing as you do with a map when flying . |
| 22 | Surely you know that , living as you do with a child-woman ? |
| 23 | ‘ Coming home after six hours or so , as you do with a domino birth , is actually more restful than staying in for 24 or 48 hours , ’ she says . |
| 24 | ‘ You see you have to have a situation in schools where in the end teachers — and this gentleman is a visiting teacher — can give reasonable orders to people just as you do in a home . |
| 25 | Growing up as you have on a stud farm , you know how important breeding is . |
| 26 | It is intriguing to speculate , as you stand in a swamp listening to this astounding and deafening chorus , that , although much must have changed in the millions of years since the first amphibians appeared , it was , nonetheless , an amphibian voice that first sounded over the land which , until then , had heard nothing but the chirps and whirrs of insects . |
| 27 | And look on the feelings , etc. , as you look on a way of regarding the language-game , as interpretation ’ ; ‘ We are not analysing a phenomenon ( e.g. thought ) but a concept ( e.g. that of thinking ) , and therefore the use of a word ’ ; ‘ a concept is in its element with the language-game ’ . |
| 28 | It takes 4 hours in each direction , and there is plenty to see as you drift through a landscape where woodlands slope down to the waters edge , medieval towns seem to be snoozing , vineyards look sweet with promise , and heights are crowned mysteriously with fine old castles and monasteries . |
| 29 | That 's it was it was as you say over a patio door , it was actually being used as an entrance door as well |
| 30 | So , as you say in a lot of your articles , it 's social-sciences , teachers , users , actual utility users that love the work , whereas the photographic intelligentsia or the ‘ counter-culturalists ’ have found it , in a perverse way , too usable and too located . |