Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've got one baby ter look after as well as an ‘ usband an' the business . |
| 2 | Rationing and controls in general were not regarded by the public as desirable elements in planning for a better Britain but as irksome and restrictive consequences of the war which should be got rid of as soon as better times allowed . |
| 3 | We 've started it in our studio , bringing their people into the city or setting up a kind of branch over there where people can work together and so you do n't get the political problems of ownerships , of people saying well that 's your idea , you know , it 's the old thing of as soon as the client thinks that it 's his idea then he wants it , and it 's very hard . |
| 4 | The whole arbitrary system itself , which was a temporary measure of protection for tenants in a period of acute post-war scarcity , should be dispensed with as soon as the output of the house-building industry has regained a satisfactory level . |
| 5 | Goods can be unloaded and dealt with as soon as they arrive from the manufacturer . |
| 6 | This is not a diet to launch into as soon as you have finished reading about it . |
| 7 | and the Stationmaster 's office faced the platform but there is another door that to get into as soon as you got in the main door to the left , you see and with a flap and that 's the door that we used to take in the parcels , you see and very often we used to go in that door or sometimes we would go through o on to the platform and go in the Stationmaster 's door , you see and then there again , if I took messages to the Stationmaster on the single telegraph er I had to go down the steps because th more often than not that they were in the basement . |
| 8 | We must find a ground-floor flat and have it ready for her to move into as soon as she comes out of hospital . |
| 9 | What would be easier would be a simple board with everybody 's name and you just sort of erm put it across to in or out as you are coming up . |
| 10 | Maggie , who had never learned such useful arts from either of the women who had brought her up , had to be shown what was required , but soon the smooth rhythm of one woman winding and the other co-operating by swinging her hands in and out as the thread unwound , pleased and comforted her . |
| 11 | It says that it is the counsel of the witan determined upon as soon as Cnut and his witan established peace and friendship between Danes and English , and that one of the first things the witan decided was that they would zealously observe Edgar 's law and " investigate further at leisure what was necessary for the nation , as best they could " . |
| 12 | Since those early days it has continued to attract people from as away as North Africa , Australia and Canada . |
| 13 | And you know from as soon as he could walk it was explained to him you know , that you must walk and not and |
| 14 | The Fourth Fairy is a songbird bringing the gift of Language and flutters to and fro as she sings . |
| 15 | In the fifth hour of play , Karpov was reduced to shuffling his king to and fro as Short steadily improved his position . |
| 16 | A spinner with a great ( or walking ) wheel could perhaps work here , space being required for the spinner to walk to and fro as she worked , though the height of the canopy would be a determining factor . |
| 17 | She gently rocked the chair to and fro as she started to work on the head of a unicorn in white embroidery cotton . |
| 18 | Their heads were the size of flies and moved to and fro as they presumably spoke to one another . |
| 19 | Dowd 's head thrashed to and fro as this indignity was visited upon him , only once raising his gaze to stare accusingly at Godolphin , who was too busy about this undoing to return the look . |
| 20 | When a white bar is moved to and fro as shown to the left , the neuron responds only when it is nearly vertical , and only for one direction of movement ( from Hubel 1988 : see Further Reading ) . |
| 21 | He glanced to and fro as he walked back across the road , but no-one was there . |
| 22 | Gaining the tar-sweated hill with my mother 's lean legs pumping swiftly , the willowy sight of streaky high dunes on the horizon awaited us , waving to and fro as they did , sheltering an occasional beige box of a house , a modern cube . |
| 23 | This triangle is established by finding the intersection B of circles centred on O and A with radii in the same proportion to and respectively as OA is to . |
| 24 | So these people that had little private shops in them days did well because when the people came to the lodges it all the commodities were bought to as well as them . |
| 25 | Cut them off and then stick them back on as soon as they 're cooked . |
| 26 | And erm he actually , he , he started off and , and was very nervous but the summing up of it was , was brilliant erm and I , I would n't put it across as well as what he did but the principle of it was that he , he suddenly turned round and said right I have now changed my job , right , you are now looking at the new managing director of Friends Provident , he says , and the first thing I am going to do is I 'm cutting all your wages to eighty five pounds a week , what are you going to do about it ? |
| 27 | I 'd had about as soon as he come to bed I cuddled up to him and I got up at ten to eleven . |
| 28 | her carnal pleasures never made her fear the wrath of God , the scorn of Jesus , or the candied disgust of the Holy Virgin … for as soon as she recognized the presence within her of seeds of these fears ( divine wrath , scorn , disgust ) , Divine made of her loves a god above God , Jesus , and the Holy Virgin , to whom they were submissive like everyone else . |
| 29 | He remembereth that we are but dust , the days of man are but grass for he flourishes as a flower of the field , for as soon as the wind goes over it , it is gone and the thereof shall know it no more . |
| 30 | The internationalism of architecture particularly interested him , for as well as being considered as the founder of the Institute of Architects , he served for twenty-four years as its Honorary Secretary for Foreign Correspondence . |