Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | you get a bit of paint on it I 'd have a job to get it off so I take them off , then put them on just as it 's going off , you know , so you got ta |
| 2 | Oh yeah , that 's right you had to hold yours up together as well . |
| 3 | Somebody up above as said , I 'll give that person ten minutes sitting in his car . |
| 4 | Duvall collided with him in the rush , nearly flinging him to the corridor floor , but Cardiff clung to the door knob and swung himself back again as Rohmer and Gilbert hurtled past him . |
| 5 | I 'll get somebody out here as well if you hurry up and give me that . |
| 6 | I always felt that she cut me off just as we were becoming closer — and always when I most needed her . ’ |
| 7 | He 's pulled our strings as if we were his puppets , and there I was , all ready to touch you up just as he wanted . |
| 8 | older women , losing height a lot of pain from these fractures and it 's bones that are too porous so they 're not holding you up sufficiently as you get older . |
| 9 | I would have picked you out anywhere as being his sister . |
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| 11 | Indeed , Opposition Members did nothing to clear up the uncertainties about the huge expenditure on which they would have to embark to renationalise these industries before messing them up again as they did in the 1970s when they were under national control . |
| 12 | It is as easy for the sportsman to shoot me up here as down there . |
| 13 | Get one down here as well . |
| 14 | The gun roared deafeningly in the small room , its lethal discharge taking Angel Two in the ribcage , almost tearing him in half as it punched him back across the room . |
| 15 | Well I 'll ring her up tonight as well and find out if it 's , if it 's gone up exorbitantly , I 'll have to ring round , ring you and see what to do . |
| 16 | If he had a new night special , even if he later grew to like her , he would start by trying to play her up just as he had me , and , since she had told me herself , Daisy Yates . |
| 17 | ‘ I got her up here as soon as I could . |
| 18 | Behind him , Farquhar propped him up unobtrusively as he swayed slightly , his glazed expression half-hidden by his neatly-brushed beard . |
| 19 | She said I was cutting her out just as I 'd cut out other people in my life . |
| 20 | I picked her out almost as soon as she arrived , the only woman present whom I did not know or , in the case of George 's sisters , could not identify . |
| 21 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 22 | We organized at least a dozen ‘ Letters to the Editor ’ each day — these were mainly unsolicited , but we encouraged more — and spread them about so as to appear in a number of newspapers and magazines across the country . |
| 23 | The idea being that if you wanted to move the cloth which we will be doing for the banquet , you just lift it straight off there , hammer some more tenterhooks in somewhere else and put it on there as well . |
| 24 | Charles got it in quickly as Patrick hesitated . |
| 25 | In Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris Lord Denning MR said that by construing a restriction according to the object and intent rule the courts refuse to hold a covenant bad merely because of unskilful drafting and will cut it down so as to reveal its essential reasonableness . |
| 26 | The police restricted the parade to the Falls area and the organising committee then called it off so as to avoid compromising the principle of working-class unity . |
| 27 | The nurses topped it up again as soon as they realised but it took time to go through and have any effect so I had about twenty minutes of real labour pains . |
| 28 | He held it up triumphantly as though it were a trophy then knelt beside the nearest keg and traced his finger around the seal of the small bung . |
| 29 | She bent her head into it as she crossed the yard , only to lift it up sharply as she heard a voice saying , ‘ Psst ! |
| 30 | One has the impression that the politicians have half-heartedly picked it up so as not to be left behind in the citizenship fashion-parade , or maybe because they have been prodded into rendering some kind of lip-service by their convinced academics . |