Example sentences of "as [pers pn] have [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 2 | You 'll have to fit yourself into other surroundings , as I had to do so often . ’ |
| 3 | So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time . |
| 4 | At last it was decided that , as I had behaved so well up to now , I would be kept alive . |
| 5 | But as you 've spent so long thinking it over , I suspect that , deep down , you 've decided it is n't really worth the risk . |
| 6 | Suddenly I have a great urge to tell you about it , knowing that you will understand as you have suffered so terribly yourself . |
| 7 | She was always there , and she would tell , as she had told so often before , the remarkable story of her Jimmy , who 'd been posted as dead last December and who , six months later , had simply walked into the house , bold as you please , and asked for a cup of tea . |
| 8 | Are we simply to chuck out these extra six constituencies and say no to the French , we 're not going to agree to extra silly expenditure or are we in fact going to cave in as we 've done so often . |
| 9 | Sadly , I can not share your optimistic conclusion , which implies we will always muddle through together as we have done so often in the past . |
| 10 | As we have seen so far , the results from pattern recognition are far from perfect , and no matter what improvements are made to recognition , it is never going to reach 100% accuracy . |
| 11 | Britain was bound to become a place of paralysing congestion in some parts , of miserable underdevelopment in others , a place of inefficiency , and because of the refusal to make public investment , a place of considerable danger too , for the travelling public and people working in those industries as we have seen so tragically demonstrated . ’ |
| 12 | From the debate as it has developed so far , various things seem to me to be clear : |
| 13 | Up at five and sleeping badly of late , Luke kept his mind off Perdita and himself awake on the long straight roads , as he had done so often in the past , by concentrating on a particular horse . |
| 14 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 15 | And if Mr Mellor insists , as he has done so far , that the auction solution is not open to revision , let them ask him , kindly but firmly , if such crude competition is really the format to put on his Saturday screen the modern successors of Cantelli , Neveu and Lipatti . |
| 16 | Once one of the greatest centres in the world , Gerber demonstrated all the arts running , handling , tackling , kicking , passing and , as he has done so often , try-scoring . |