Example sentences of "as [pers pn] have [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were to fly across , which suited me , as I had a morbid fear of being torpedoed at sea . |
| 2 | As long as I had a sympathetic host , of course . |
| 3 | I know , as I had a strict upbringing . |
| 4 | As I had a twelfth-hand Hillman Imp at the time I drove him down to his place in South London . |
| 5 | Our leader was soon grunting in a semi layback posture , and as I had the appropriate page open , I could not resist reading out loud : ‘ … |
| 6 | I 'm afraid I ca n't subscribe to the theory that man should always be ‘ bloody , bold and resolute ’ ; but rather , I confess , that it 's very comforting to lean on you sometimes … more especially as I 've a funny instinct that if I follow your ways I ca n't go wrong , whereas my own existence is apt to be hardening , as you can see that it must be . |
| 7 | He was quite capable of building a locomotive as I have a working steam model threshing engine , on about the same scale , that also came from the old office . ’ |
| 8 | I found your motherboard upgrade article most interesting as I have been thinking of upgrading my XT , but I had not bargained for changing the keyboard as I have a 102 key board ( no XT/AT switch ) . |
| 9 | ‘ So he is therefore claiming that , as I have no further work for him , then I must make him redundant . ’ |
| 10 | When I visit a city , I visit the older part of town first , as I have the greatest chance of finding good material there . |
| 11 | When I visit a city , I visit the older part of town first , as I have the greatest chance of finding good material there . |
| 12 | ‘ You ca n't , perhaps , take a 10-year view , but you can — as long as you have a decent strategy , and explain it — take a two or three-year view . |
| 13 | A steep slab at right angles to the viewing balcony gives several routes at about VS and is a poseur 's paradise as you have a continuous battery of video cameras pointing at you . |
| 14 | The practical upshot is that , as long as you have the right translator , the Virtual Processor code will run without modification on any chip . |
| 15 | The practical upshot is that , as long as you have the right translator , the Virtual Processor code will run without modification on any chip . |
| 16 | In London you are so free to do what you want ; you can work where you want , do the sort of work you want , ( as long as you have the sufficient G.C.S.E. 's at the age of sixteen , the ‘ A ’ levels at the age of eighteen , and degrees , or diplomas etc . ) . |
| 17 | As you have an 8:1 compression engine ( or slightly higher if the cylinder head has been skimmed ) set the timing to 3 deg A T D C and the pinking should disappear . |
| 18 | My mother was a delicate creature and a cripple who had to wear a large , specially made boot as she had a shortened leg . |
| 19 | When William had gone , she thought of all the things she had planned to do as soon as she had a little time to herself . |
| 20 | She was probably raped first as she had a horrible wound in the abdomen , undoubtedly caused by a grenade , as if to make an examination impossible . |
| 21 | Well , not entirely , as she had a little girl of eighteen months old and her husband was missing reported killed in a bombing raid over Germany . |
| 22 | She found this very difficult to keep to , as she had a sweet tooth and loved cakes . |
| 23 | Her father was a diplomat at the Embassy in Rio de Janeiro , and as she had no other family she insisted on joining the course at once . |
| 24 | And whilst we had no opportunities last year for canvassing or erm for getting members we we could have I I felt er put on more fund-raising events as we had a quiet year and we could have probably at the same time persuaded one or two people to actually join us . |
| 25 | We had also managed to scrounge plenty of drink and , as we had the whole theatre to ourselves , we played endless games of paper chase and treasure hunt in and out of the stalls and the boxes and the circle . |
| 26 | As property prices in London were moving upwards , Eva 's shrewd plan was to decorate the flat as we had the last house , sell at a profit , and move on . |
| 27 | ‘ It is unlikely that the business could be self-supporting as we have a higher level of direct and indirect supervision for our employees . |
| 28 | ‘ We often have famous people in here as we have a good location , ’ says the store manager of the recently opened Kings Road branch . |
| 29 | LDP were not unhappy with this arrangement as we have a good track record with dividend payments and they believe , as we all do , that the Stoddard group is well placed to prosper in the years ahead , which should me that the share price will rise . |
| 30 | And ordinary soldiers , writing to relatives from the Front in April 1940 , spoke naïvely of their belief that ‘ as long as we have the front soldier Adolf Hitler , there will be only loyalty , bravery , and justice for his people ’ , and that ‘ the most beautiful day in the life of our Führer has still to come ’ , the day on which ‘ all peoples have recovered their freedom , peace , and equality ’ . |