Example sentences of "something as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only she said something as she was leaving — ’ |
| 2 | It seems that potency level is as much to do with satisfying the need of the practitioner to feel that they are doing something as being a systematic deductive process ! |
| 3 | However highly we may value the findings of this committee , it is worth asserting again the need to distinguish the concept of language , as something as necessary to us as our limbs or our most essential man-made tools like spades and kettles , from that of literature . |
| 4 | A negative response would run something as follows . |
| 5 | Something else , something as he passed the door of the Volvo to climb into the boot . |
| 6 | When someone suggests something as opposed to insisting on it , we enjoy the fact that our powers of discrimination and judgement are being recognised . |
| 7 | She muttered something as I wiped her face . |
| 8 | He punched the air and yelled something as he weaved from side to side across the road , zig-zagging into the distance . |
| 9 | When we say , ‘ I feel a pain in my foot ’ we do not mean that we have observed or witnessed something , and hence we do not mean that we have observed or witnessed something as being in a certain place . |
| 10 | Given their straitened horizons , and their own abnormality , how could they really think in terms of something as being significantly abnormal ? |
| 11 | He said something as he went , but the wind whipped away his words . |
| 12 | ‘ He was saying something as I came in — something about a buyer … ’ |
| 13 | But if we can not recognise something as it stands we try to analyse it into parts that we can recognise . |
| 14 | With provocation we do not describe something as it is or as it could be . |
| 15 | If a contract under which a person is bound to do something as well as pay money is a sale , then either the price includes the obligation as well as the money , or the consideration is the price plus the obligation . |
| 16 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 17 | He was yelling something as he ran . |
| 18 | He yelled something as he ran/hobbled towards a parked sports car , but I just sat there hypnotized . |
| 19 | I think you have to have something as well . |
| 20 | Ca n't have her going down with something as soon as she 's home , can we ? ’ |
| 21 | Was it really so important that it had to take priority over something as necessary as post , which often contains faxes and other mail urgently required . |
| 22 | I 'll tell you something as well . |
| 23 | Anyone who 's vigilant knows what 's going on and they 're aware of what 's happening , so again it , it shows that we must do something as they said on that motorway , the thing to do when you feel yourself going into drow drowsiness is , is stop the car perhaps , get out and have a walk round , do something , I know I , er in the past when I 've felt myself going off to sleep in those situations , I 've been pinching myself and , and really making yourself do something rather than just sitting there doing nothing , cos that 's the way we just go off and get lowered into sleep and our lives are involved in this , we 've read and heard about people that have gone to sleep on motorways have n't they ? |
| 24 | There 's something as well , er , er in baptism is n't there really ? |
| 25 | Yeah , but you get Jean something as well . |
| 26 | And so that the village benefits from the wood in some way , erm like there 's a teak plantation they 've got going at the moment , and in ten years time , the teak will be used to carry electricity , so that the village can have some electricity as well , I mean it 's to do with giving the village something as well as trying to help the environment . |