Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] as [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some will actually feel that they are inside the body of the former self , and that everything is going on around them just as it does in ordinary life . |
| 2 | The koko serves us tea respectfully , although she smiles at me complicitly as she hands me my mug . |
| 3 | I hope that the Secretary of State will look again at the figures , instead of looking at them superficially as he has done , to see that , in the past five years , the incidence of passenger train collisions has increased by 40 per cent . |
| 4 | There are other signs that the club is stirring itself commercially as it responds to the needs of its growing membership . |
| 5 | He stares at you hard as he passes . |
| 6 | He comes to the door just like that ; no servants , no security phone , and that by itself gives you the green light ; you have n't the time for any finessing so you just kick him in the balls and follow him inside as he collapses , foetal on the floor . |
| 7 | ‘ Listen to him now as he tells us how and why he became a convert . |
| 8 | President Mobutu 's face nods on her behind as she pounds plantain in an ebony mortar and then slices the yellow dough with cotton thread . |
| 9 | ( And I remember the man saying , can remember his voice perfectly , hear him again as he says , ‘ I 'm a policeman ! ’ ) |
| 10 | I suppose I was kicking over the traces a bit and parental authority seemed as irksome to me then as it does to teenagers today . |
| 11 | It made as little impression on me then as it does now . ’ |
| 12 | Kevin Phillips ' snarl says it all as he leads the Neath tribe 's celebrations after winning the 1990 Schweppes Cup Final . |
| 13 | Just write it all as it happens . |
| 14 | It can take just as much fortitude to go it alone as it does to keep up a public front . |
| 15 | Right and it goes like these great funnels spread it Now as it goes down it gets caught down . |
| 16 | Strictly speaking , this is not solely a funboard technique but I include it here as it has such close links with the waterstart . |
| 17 | Des stares at me blankly as he puts his shoe on . |