Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I was cautious about it too as I 'd seen both sides — the periods of unemployment as well as the glossy side of my father being in something so popular like Howards ' Way . ’ |
| 2 | When I went to bed , I had a few ‘ sort of ’ pains , but I did n't think anything of them as I 'd had these kind of niggly pains a lot over the last week or so . |
| 3 | I decided to visit the Marines that evening and , after thanking Mick for his hospitality , made my way back to the orchard , thinking that as I had visited each Commando unit each day when we were in England , why not now that we were in France ? |
| 4 | As soon as I had seen this reading of the phrase it at once seemed more plausible . |
| 5 | I held up my arms as I had seen German prisoners do in news-reels . |
| 6 | As I had done several times on the journey , since I had n't entirely managed to put out of my mind the events of Uulaa and my suspicions . |
| 7 | My dissertation was on Yugoslavia , as I had learnt some Serbo-Croat at Nottingham . |
| 8 | Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed . |
| 9 | It must be emphasized , however , that this particular elaboration of the nature-culture split is , of course , also itself a complex social construct and one which as I said serves patriarchal needs in various ways . |
| 10 | Soon as I got paid last month . |
| 11 | He commented : ‘ I felt the time was right to make a personal move forward as I wanted to have direct control over my own destiny and re-invest into the Province . ’ |
| 12 | Well , like I say , it 's not erm an ambition really of mine it 's a challenge of a lifetime because I 've never liked running and I decided that as I started running two years ago that er the marathon was the ultimate , and as it 's the ultimate challenge I thought what I 'm asking and why I 've asked to come in to FOX F M is to er ask the businesses of Bicester to help me er raise money for the er Bicester Health Centre , and also for the Bible School boys sponsoring me . |
| 13 | The same as I did mention last week , . |
| 14 | And often , as I sat writing such poems that helped me cling to the last shreds of my many identities , I would suddenly sense that you were indeed approaching . |
| 15 | The Prime Minister herself had reaffirmed her commitment to the " founding principles " of the service in her speech to the Conservative Party Conference in 1982 as she sought to allay public suspicion that the health service might not be safe in her hands . |
| 16 | As she had suffered one setback after another-no money , another still birth , one or other of the boys in trouble with the police — she had turned more and more to the church . |
| 17 | In 1975 she had had to give up her job as a council clerkess as she had contracted asbestos-related pleurisy and pleural thickening . |
| 18 | As soon as she had announced this fact , she pushed past him roughly , on her way to the kitchen . |
| 19 | The only activity Gerald had forbidden her was the embroidery of tapestry , which he had declared too menial an occupation for a young lady of her intelligence , preferring her to accompany him on his visits to neighbouring landlords as she had done that day . |
| 20 | Her concern , until then , had always been that Time ( or the house ) would prevent him from reaching her , stop them from being able to meet , remove the opportunity , once and for all , for her to feel again as she had done last night , leaving her for ever empty and unsatisfied . |
| 21 | She would live as long as she had to see Elder Seth dead , and then she would think again … |
| 22 | The same glorious sensation as she had felt that instant when , poised on the highest diving-board , she had known that this time she really did dare , that moment of poise and thrill before the free-fall . |
| 23 | She was in flight from it — as she had imagined that woman in the rain in flight . |
| 24 | She reported that she had already removed , cleaned and returned them as she had caught some wool under one of them . |
| 25 | There would be no clues , no fingerprints , nothing to lead the police to them , but she knew who they were , just as she had known last night who had wrecked her car . |
| 26 | But assumptions , as she 'd discovered that day , could be dangerous , and Isabelle had never actually stated where she was born . |
| 27 | You always knew when a child was lying , by the light in the child 's eyes , as she 'd discovered twenty-seven years ago with her own Winnie . |
| 28 | The weird notion that she might be in danger of actually becoming one day as perfect as she seemed added a ghastly charm to her reflections , as she continued to envisage various methods of killing Jack . |
| 29 | Donna rubbed both hands across her face , her body quivering as she began to regain some warmth , some feeling in her extremities . |
| 30 | Everything in Fabia cried out as she started to panic that Ven might yet hit on the truth of her love for him . |