Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not as I had expected at all because living in the kind of commune that Mary Finnigan 's house was , there was n't a lot of time for romance . |
| 2 | As I began to reflect on this verse , I let its truth penetrate deep within me . |
| 3 | Much as I tried to break in several times , they always caught me and would n't let me in to see the poor people travelling . |
| 4 | Although their protection was n't evident Millie was conscious of it , and there were times when she felt as hemmed in as she had done during that tortured year or more when guarded by the sisters . |
| 5 | From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years . |
| 6 | But she had never had confirmation of his death , as she had had of those of his parents and hers . |
| 7 | Susan 's arm was so painful next morning and looked so inflamed that Breeze , as soon as she had foraged for some breakfast , went down to the village to find the doctor . |
| 8 | Things were n't turning out as she 'd expected at all ; now she was dazed , confused , hardly knew where she was or what she was saying . |
| 9 | People came and went as she sat thinking about this . |
| 10 | Let's improvise something , as we 'd done on those remarkable nights six years ago . |
| 11 | And inside her an unbearable excitement was building as they had moved towards that luminous moment when the two of them would finally be one . |
| 12 | They were arrested as they prepared to go to another rave in Ashington . |
| 13 | As they started to walk on that first day the temperature increased dramatically and continued to do so . |
| 14 | Carolyn asked , as they sat picking at some smoked ham and coleslaw Alan had found in the fridge . |
| 15 | But , in a sinister turn of events , firemen were stoned by gangs of youths as they tried to deal with several out-of-control bonfires on Merseyside . |
| 16 | Essentially , they were trying to examine the progress , or indeed lack of progress , of the immigrant newcomers as they tried to settle into this physical and social landscape . |
| 17 | The crusaders had returned to their interstellar castle — which flew onward from nowhere to nowhere just as it had done for many millennia , and must continue to do for many millennia more . |
| 18 | No longer would youth and its culture have such a power to affect society as it had had for those brief few years from 1963 to 1967 : although the sharp end of youth culture was confusing purchasing power with political power and demanding change , many of its constituents were caught by the freeze that , introduced the previous year , signified the end of the ten-year boom that had thrust youth into prominence . |
| 19 | Moreover , in Commission of the European Communities v. Hellenic Republic ( Case 305/87 ) [ 1989 ] E.C.R. 1461 , 1478 , para. 21 , the court pointed out that , as it had held on several occasions ( see , inter alia , Commission of the European Communities v. Italian Republic ( Case 63/86 ) [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 29 ) , the prohibition of all discrimination on grounds of nationality set out in article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 20 | That capital and experience would give Lloyd 's a bigger , global strength , as it became dominated by fewer , larger groups . |
| 21 | Just as he finished dealing with that , another two containers arrived … . |
| 22 | Was he perhaps not quite as indifferent to her as he had pretended after all ? |
| 23 | His WPC was looking at him anxiously for guidance , but he shook his head at her slightly and waited , standing squarely on both feet as he had done in many trying circumstances before . |
| 24 | But presumably he must have taken a shine , as the expression went , to Celia , particularly as he had gone to such trouble to seek her out and visit her at the Meadhaven Clinic . |
| 25 | It had not been as he had dreamed at that time with the beloved of his youth : fame and glory , honour and victory . |
| 26 | Mike , however , had travelled north , leaving his pregnant girlfriend with relatives in the safety of a Harare suburb as he went looking for another war . |
| 27 | She stepped up to his desk , as he continued flicking through some papers , and fixed her eyes on the top of his arrogant head . |
| 28 | St Antonino of Florence felt that the professional soldier could not fight in a war the justice of which was not above doubt , nor could he be given absolution as long as he continued to fight in that cause . |
| 29 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,0000 ) , has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 30 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,000 ) has hanged himself in his cell . |