Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , but it was a loan to me and I said to my dad he was loaning it me and I said to him erm I pay you back and then when I went to pick the cheque up er he says er well me mum says he giving you that you know he says what we 're gon na do is when , when they write the will out you 'll get that much less than the others , I says well as long as it ai n't gon na cause any problems |
| 2 | She laughs now as he bounds off the bed , aware that his hairy — poilu — parts are comical . |
| 3 | Had it been made in the 1930s , Jimmy Stewart would have played Buck and Margaret Sullavan would have taken the Hoffman role , dying in the arms of the man she loves just as she reaches Miami . |
| 4 | A sense of loss of identity causes the voyager to project what he or she encounters so as to perceive it as an external phenomenon , and also to introject elements of the familiar world in order to recreate a recognizable context . |
| 5 | She cackles loudly as she admits : ‘ I think you always need a bit of a hook to get people into the theatre . ’ |
| 6 | Some of them happened , she said , when ‘ her eyes were ever together-ward as if she would have slept ’ , some she saw ‘ with her ghostly eye ’ ; most of her experiences with the Holy Family she describes just as she does her other , more ordinary experiences . |
| 7 | She complains cheerfully as we enter saying , ‘ Jaz I 've never had so many people kissin' me in all me life , strangers and all , you 'd tink I was in Italy or England or America , God forbid ! ’ |
| 8 | She comes just as she is . |
| 9 | He sleeps there as well . |
| 10 | It looks sadly as though only too much of England — or shall we say the English populace — is what it seems . |
| 11 | Future risks — ‘ there should be a cultural shift in the audit so that it looks forward as well as backward ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ It looks almost as though it might be a fire . ’ |
| 13 | He is polite and very careful about what he says so as not to offend anyone . |
| 14 | In nephrite it occurs exclusively as ferrous and in jadeite as ferric oxide . |
| 15 | It bounces alarmingly as it gathers speed . |
| 16 | It stays exactly as arranged . ’ |
| 17 | He smiles broadly as he describes his nomination for the Best Actor award alongside Nick Nolte for Princes of Tides , as ‘ wonderful , fabulous and an honour . |
| 18 | He grins defiantly as Eva sweeps in through the door . |
| 19 | Similarly the draw will attract as much interest for those it keeps apart as those it brings together . |
| 20 | HSE 's director-general , , said : ‘ Law that is fussy or demands unnecessary detail is ineffective and also gives too many opportunities to consultants and others to exaggerate what it requires so as to get themselves business — quite a problem at present . ’ |
| 21 | It translates literally as ‘ consistent ’ but means more that things must be seen through . |
| 22 | When in market exchange under capitalism something is treated as a commodity , whether it is labour or goods , the fact that it appears simply as ‘ a thing with a price ’ obscures the exploitative social relationships within which it has been produced . |
| 23 | To me it seems now as though all had ended well . |
| 24 | It feels almost as though it might stay this way for ever . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The way she died , ’ he repeats twice as we talk of Julie 's murder . |
| 26 | ‘ It means just as it sounds . |
| 27 | The economic casualties of capitalist society in America he explains away as ‘ the legacy of a pre-liberal past ’ , and appears to make no connection between Western prosperity and the victim economies of the third world , still regrettably ‘ mired in history ’ . |
| 28 | A computer is a machine with the attractive property that it does exactly as it is told , yet the outcome of a series of throws of an unbiased dice will produce a random sequence of numbers in which the n + 1th outcome is independent of the nth . |
| 29 | As a state politician I feel awkward talking about it , but our KGB has its own ‘ Mafia Department ’ for the nasty work , and it does just as it pleases . |
| 30 | Whatever his secret , it works well as the 5 pound trout in the freezer at BMK discovered . |