Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I sighed inwardly as I followed him . |
| 8 | I spent both as usual with Bill and Irina . |
| 9 | Because I just sort of went to work the following day and I worked away as normal . |
| 10 | I fancied yesterday as well . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me . |
| 14 | This had better be good , I thought grimly as I crossed the road and walked up the cul-de-sac to the Parsonage . |
| 15 | I listened carefully as I want to learn all the green I can in case Maggie comes our way . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The extreme poverty of the whole concern is pathetic , and I wished I 'd paid more for the things I bought so as to make life easier for these tanners who look just about ready to give up . |
| 18 | I was in charge of what is known as the governor , which I felt might be an error , but I did exactly as I was told and all went well . |
| 19 | I did exactly as I had promised . |
| 20 | ‘ But I did only as Lachlan ordered me . |
| 21 | I cried sadly as I stood there . |
| 22 | ‘ Very well , thank you , ’ I answered shyly as he patted me on the head . |
| 23 | ‘ It was the least I could do , ’ I said weakly as she brushed her lips against my cheek . |
| 24 | ‘ Go on , saw us in half then , ’ I said recklessly as the young man came nearer . |
| 25 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 26 | ‘ Good morning , Mrs Clamp , ’ I said pleasantly as I entered the kitchen . |
| 27 | as I said before as a relief clerk |
| 28 | ‘ I can not recall the dates but it must have been in the very late twenties if I was still at school , because I left just as soon as I could when I made up fourteen . |
| 29 | I groaned inwardly as I climbed the narrow stairs and was plunged in darkness when only half-way up . |
| 30 | I stood aside as he filled the doorframe . |