Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some will actually feel that they are inside the body of the former self , and that everything is going on around them just as it does in ordinary life . |
| 2 | There are other signs that the club is stirring itself commercially as it responds to the needs of its growing membership . |
| 3 | And we really need two men out there , but I ca n't ask more of them than they 're doing ; they 're making up for one short as it is . |
| 4 | So far , she had answered everything scrupulously as it came , but the volume threatened to defeat her . |
| 5 | you insurance them centrally as it were and each resident has to pay part of the insurance cost ? |
| 6 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
| 7 | This wanting teased him on as it happened — contingent naturalism — to murder . |
| 8 | Intrigued , and a little afraid of the gyrating shadows that loomed like feathery figures on the walls beside them , the boy kept close to the bent figure , curiosity alive in him , and a strange excitement driving him on as it always did when he was with the old man . |
| 9 | I did not bring her anything ; I spoil her enough as it is . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 've hurt him enough as it is ; ca n't you see the state of his face ? ’ |
| 11 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 12 | From point-blank range the first bullet hit him in the stomach , doubling him up as it punched a hole just to the left of his navel , ploughing through intestines before lodging close to his spine . |
| 13 | It pierced the wizard 's forehead and penetrated to his brain as he stood cursing ; death took him unawares as it did Goliath , and his lifeless body fell backwards on to the sand . |
| 14 | It stirred the man in him even as it gored him . |
| 15 | It appeared that more was required and Liz , resenting the inanity thus forced upon her even as it passed her lips , found herself saying ‘ And how are you looking forward to the 1980s ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Peter began and explained everything to them precisely as it happened ’ ( Acts 11:4 ) . |
| 17 | The war affected me chiefly as it affected my personal affairs . |
| 18 | I suppose I was kicking over the traces a bit and parental authority seemed as irksome to me then as it does to teenagers today . |
| 19 | It made as little impression on me then as it does now . ’ |
| 20 | Just write it all as it happens . |
| 21 | Erm if you 're buying an endowment policy is it possible to put er put it in as it were paid up , or do you have to find the premiums out of your income ? |
| 22 | The camera followed it down as it walked across her breast ( thirty foot wide ) and past her nipple ( five foot high ) . |
| 23 | It can take just as much fortitude to go it alone as it does to keep up a public front . |
| 24 | to see it entirely as it never is , |
| 25 | I love it just as it is but it can be sauced with burnt brandy . |
| 26 | I decided to leave it , to leave it just as it was , as I had remembered it . |
| 27 | You may divide it into sections , such as in the tables , record it just as it is spoken , or however else you wish , but do record it for later reference and to help you learn . |
| 28 | ‘ Instead of making a painting which interpreted an object or depicted its content ’ , he recalls , ‘ I found an object and ‘ presented ’ it just as it was ’ . |
| 29 | She is a writer and loves it just as it is . |
| 30 | I tell it just as it happened , from where we ran up the hill almost straight into the man ; I leave out what Andy and I were doing just before , and the man 's line about dirty , perverted things . |