Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The agency will get me placed again as soon as I 'm ready . ’ |
| 2 | But Pau survived , and in the late 1860s was at its most popular with British and , by this time , some American winterers , with up to I , 500 of them registered yearly as staying or living there . |
| 3 | I heard them laughing still as the car pulled off down the lane . |
| 4 | I 'd have to , I 'd have to erm I 'd have to raise it er and I think to be quite honest the er I mean fortunately as I said earlier on Mr chairman there is a Regional Liaison Group meeting on , on Monday er and I have a captive audience of three budget holders , Doug Gill and Phil , erm and raise this with them . |
| 5 | Yeah I mean so as they 're not stood there doing nothing . |
| 6 | ‘ Have been reading ’ , I realized even as I struggled to find somewhere to stand the strawboard in the darkness , makes a somewhat smaller claim than ‘ have read ’ , and I scarcely expect that my ‘ books ’ , to anyone outside the very restricted world of philosophical studies , are going to include the two on Spinoza ; all of which suggests a second-hand and partial acquaintance with my only other work , Natural Man . |
| 7 | It rarely took less than seven minutes to organize the few things I needed , so that day I rehearsed mentally as I went along : ‘ Choose the best place to stop . |
| 8 | The greenbelt boundary as I mentioned earlier as proposed by the County Council is very tightly drawn , excluding the sites which have been mentioned which our allocated , there is no land between the edge of the urban area and the proposed greenbelt boundary and that does seem to us , continues to seem to us er not an appropriate way forward . |
| 9 | During the lead-up to my emergence as a fully-fledged lesbian , I suffered unspeakably as I steered myself through a minefield of heavily internalized Catholic dogma . |
| 10 | No , but it was a loan to me and I said to my dad he was loaning it me and I said to him erm I pay you back and then when I went to pick the cheque up er he says er well me mum says he giving you that you know he says what we 're gon na do is when , when they write the will out you 'll get that much less than the others , I says well as long as it ai n't gon na cause any problems |
| 11 | I run fast as I can at the window , but it still wo n't break . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , I stand here as self-confessed criminal trespasser , though one who has done no harm and will continue to show every care for this precious environment . |
| 13 | I sighed heavily as I looked first at one and then at the other while we made our slow way down the main street , past Woolworth and the traffic lights . |
| 14 | I sighed inwardly as I followed him . |
| 15 | It will be a great happiness to meet George MacDonald in eternity , if I get there as well . |
| 16 | Out of school , of course , I continued my birdwatching just as I had done back in Essex , only now there was much more variety . |
| 17 | I spent both as usual with Bill and Irina . |
| 18 | So that 'll be quite useful I reckon really as well as getting a bit of money . |
| 19 | Because I just sort of went to work the following day and I worked away as normal . |
| 20 | I fancied yesterday as well . |
| 21 | I smile easily as they go |
| 22 | I smile indulgently as I watch her write a shopping list on a document drawn up in my own hand . |
| 23 | As someone seduced by the clever remake that was ‘ Iron Lion Zion ’ , I ca n't say that I feel quite as lubricated by this one . |
| 24 | I felt rather as I should if , on my asking him what he would like for lunch , he had replied ‘ thriftiness ’ , or ‘ thirty-seven degrees Centigrade ’ . |
| 25 | When a girl whom I knew only as Meriel remarked , as we were washing up the cocoa-cups , that she was ‘ brought up in a bog ’ , and I commented naïvely that she had no trace of Irish accent , the unassuming daughter of the Earl of Meath merely smiled . |
| 26 | I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me . |
| 27 | This had better be good , I thought grimly as I crossed the road and walked up the cul-de-sac to the Parsonage . |
| 28 | ‘ Should I go tomorrow as usual … ? ’ |
| 29 | I listened carefully as I want to learn all the green I can in case Maggie comes our way . |
| 30 | I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin . |