Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I scarcely listened as he continued his thumbnail portrait of Jesus . |
| 2 | We do n't come into the I just thought as we want Smiths and Intersports |
| 3 | But I just thought as we want Smiths and Intersports |
| 4 | I just went as I was and got on the first train I could find . |
| 5 | I just remembered as you waved your hand through the air . |
| 6 | The shriek of the plane 's engines drowned our voices , so Bonefish and I just watched as the plane sank towards Straker Cay 's small airstrip . |
| 7 | ‘ He has done for himself now ’ I finally said as we came down through Grasmere to get some transport back to our room . |
| 8 | If I did so , I always woke as Hyde . |
| 9 | But I still felt as though I 'd have a nervous breakdown if I had to cope for much longer … . |
| 10 | Getting his drift , I willingly agreed as long as he could help me out with my goalkeeper crisis . |
| 11 | I nearly said as pencil skirts , but these have had a revival recently . |
| 12 | I never complained as I went off to watch West Ham that afternoon , having scoffed his portion of chips . |
| 13 | When Ruth had brushed and pinned up her mistress 's red-brown hair , which always shone as though newly burnished , she thought how lovely Mrs Carson looked . |
| 14 | There were three broad influences on perceptions of Labour chances : a ‘ wishful thinking ’ ( partisan ) influence , which was the most powerful and consistent ( Labour supporters rated their party 's chances highly ) ; a pure information-based influence ( discussion , education , television viewing all lowered expectations of a Labour victory ) , which declined as the election approached ; and a propaganda-based influence ( reading rightwing papers also lowered expectations of a Labour victory ) , which also declined as the election approached . |
| 15 | ‘ As the midwife came into the room , I had a strong contraction which really felt as though I was in labour . |
| 16 | Certainly we were delighted at the public support we gained in Amsterdam , which really established as accepted fact that Clause 28 could not happen here . |
| 17 | But his labours were interrupted by frequent migraines , which sometimes lasted as long as three days , during which he would lie in darkness on the floor of his room , eat nothing , and demand silence from the rest of us . |
| 18 | At the end of the alley I paused , waiting , but all I saw was the end of a nose which quietly withdrew as I stood there . |
| 19 | All her agitation of the summer she suddenly saw as moving towards this end — she had known , without knowing it , of this tragedy , she had been what her old mistress had called ‘ pre-sentimental ’ . |
| 20 | The girl was dishevelled , her hair a mess , but she only laughed as he caught her and pulled her into another room . |
| 21 | You just looked as though you might . |
| 22 | You just behaved as you , in fact , naturally were and had no time for the black arts of propaganda . |
| 23 | ‘ All right , all right , ’ she quickly agreed as it dawned on her that if he was who she thought he was then she was going about it completely the wrong way if she hoped for an interview . |
| 24 | And were n't there plenty of men who still thought as Johnny did , even though the year was 1992 ? |
| 25 | you once asked as though I 'd just begun |
| 26 | Folly finished the sentence for him in a flat voice that she hardly recognised as being her own . |
| 27 | She hardly stirred as he pulled off her lilac dress and carried her in her bra and pants into her bedroom . |
| 28 | She hardly noticed as Luke 's place on the dais was taken by a small , fat man who was looking very warm and uncomfortable in his business suit . |
| 29 | Doreen was a girl who always sounded as though her nasal passages were obstructed or her throat sore . |
| 30 | Even when the happy couple had left for their honeymoon , and the floor of the marquee had been cleared for the dance due to follow the reception , she still felt as though she was wound up as tightly as a spring . |