Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a very common response , and it 's nothing to worry about as long as you realize that the manager 's emphasis has to be on getting the unit to run efficiently . |
| 2 | Even if you b I I I would imagine that many of you , based on the notes alone that you 've got from here , without any reading , would probably get through So , you 've got nothing to worry about as long as you do the work . |
| 3 | I got up as usual at seven o'clock to make Dad his cup of tea and his bread and cheese for dinner . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Meanwhile , I stand here as self-confessed criminal trespasser , though one who has done no harm and will continue to show every care for this precious environment . |
| 6 | I spent both as usual with Bill and Irina . |
| 7 | Because I just sort of went to work the following day and I worked away as normal . |
| 8 | ‘ Should I go tomorrow as usual … ? ’ |
| 9 | That afternoon , while the same wind , now freshened , still blew across the island and off into the North Sea , Esmerelda and I went out as usual , and stopped off at the shed to pick up the dismantled kite . |
| 10 | I went in as usual , took off my greatcoat and tunic and tie and made some small pancakes and dipped them in boiling fat — used to take me a quarter of an hour every night . |
| 11 | I carry on as usual . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This is somewhat ironical in that , as we shall see , it is Engels 's anthropological enthusiasm and his trust in Morgan which has been the source of many of the points in his work which appear now as unacceptable to anthropologists and which have been the cause of some of the most damaging objections to his theories . |
| 14 | Compelled to re-enact rituals which appear only as stupid , trapped within the cyclic world of ‘ the love of created beings ’ , Eliot 's characters lead ‘ preord ’ lives of deep horror . |
| 15 | Having examined the reasons for the use of the bare infinitive with the modals , it is now possible to deal with infinitival usage with two verbs which function both as modal auxiliaries and as lexical verbs , need and dare . |
| 16 | perhaps somebody did n't like , perhaps he told somebody to stay there as long as he likes |
| 17 | ANDES staged a second major strike in 1971 which lasted almost as long as the first and received extensive popular backing . |
| 18 | ‘ How much sort of ? ’ she asked weakly as vague memories of vast station properties stirred . |
| 19 | The former mandatory distinction , between brokers , who acted only as agents for their clients , and jobbers who acted only as market-making principals , has disappeared ; as a result of ‘ Big Bang ’ , firms may now act as either , so long as they disclose to the client whether they are acting as agents or principals . |
| 20 | He often struck me as the kind of wide boy one found in England right after the war , people who made deals of the spivvier sort and did n't care who went down as long as they went up . |
| 21 | She looked quite as usual . |
| 22 | You stay just as long as you like and do n't worry about a thing . ’ |
| 23 | As long as you do n't as long as you do n't put erm anything too near it . |
| 24 | Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it . |
| 25 | By the stage we define broadly as intermediate , learners are some way towards developing control of the language they are learning : their store of language has grown to a point where they can adapt , adjust and add to it with some facility ; they can transfer language use from one context to another ; they are building up more complex networks of language and the work we do in the classroom at this level is similarly more complex and less controlled . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , what may encourage them to hold on as long as they can is the apparent split among the ‘ eight elders ’ over the whole question of reform and opposing Leftism . |
| 27 | They met there as fellow travellers , as masters and servants , as patrons and employees . |
| 28 | At first white-maned monsters , they plunged forward as dark shiny hump-backed whales , each wave a living being . |
| 29 | In most insects they appear externally as mere slits but in many Diptera they form intracranial tunnels . |
| 30 | ignore her and er pop next door and I mean I do n't mind him popping out as long as he 's |