Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she will be obliged to wait politely as you go about your task , which you can time to complete at the same moment you recover the skill of breathing in and out . |
| 2 | One reason for this is that our metabolic rate slows down as we age . |
| 3 | Do you want two piece construction to go in as they 've done it , or just one trip in the end ? |
| 4 | A screw that goes in as you turn it clockwise is ( arbitrarily ) called right-handed . |
| 5 | We have to stand somewhere as we decide the next step forward . |
| 6 | On her office desk sits a picture of mother and daughter laughing together as they stroll through the Lake District . |
| 7 | It 's hard for him to accept that everyone is different in every aspect of their biology — men have different sperm counts just as they have different numbers of hairs on their head or different eye colours . |
| 8 | Do not lose interest and let the end of a sentence fade away as you scan your notes for the next remark . |
| 9 | And the worst of it is that you do n't even see those people you knock over as you charge along . ’ |
| 10 | Way To Health editor David Dickinson says : ‘ An interesting video which allows you to work harder as you get fitter and vary your workout is most likely to keep you motivated . |
| 11 | A dozen shags and a cormorant are perched on a stack nearby and , as usual , the cormorant is the first to ‘ chicken out ’ and fly off as we approach . |
| 12 | The exercises of relaxation then are gradually causing more and more muscles to act as dead weight , sagging down , hanging on the skeleton causing the weight and heaviness of the body to be seeming to increase gradually as we become increasingly relaxed . |
| 13 | Her hand trembled slightly as she place it on her father 's arm , but when she heard the traditional strains of music announcing her arrival , and saw Silas looking extremely handsome as he waited at the end of the aisle , her nervousness fled . |
| 14 | The bar chart , built up as you go , shows you how you are keeping up to programme and teaches you about the idiosyncrasies of bar charts ! |
| 15 | And of course with hoods on you ca n't hear the poor soul behind you squeaking indignantly as you work your way up their ankles . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've never seen you behave before as you do with him . |
| 17 | The carrot will attract any wireworm around , which can be lifted out as they munch on it ( Harry says he finds this particularly useful for melon beds ) . |
| 18 | There was a claim for forty two thousand seven hundred and eighty six pounds and eighty six pence for the cost of alterations to the plaintiff 's home already carried out as I have indicated already , that was discharged by payment and by local authority grant of nine thousand eight hundred and forty seven pounds and an interim payment of thirty two thousand nine hundred and thirty nine pounds eighty six pence . |
| 19 | While the tale unfolds theatrically as we have seen , Roy also conceived Arion as a paean to the power of Music . |
| 20 | But coming back , we moved again as I say and it was in the er winter . |
| 21 | The agony that others seem to go through as they try to balance the contrasting facets of their lives leaves Sustad largely unaffected . |
| 22 | The first and most important question to mull over as you gaze at your patch is : What is this garden for ? |
| 23 | Documentation , too , is best built in as you go along . |
| 24 | you often get down the Tornados coming , whizzing down , below you , you know you 're looking down as they come past |
| 25 | Gold ( 1958 ) suggests that the researcher may be : ( a ) a complete participant , concealing his true identity and intentions from the group , and living entirely as they do ; or ( b ) a participant-as-observer , actively involved in the group , but they know the researcher is not really one of them ; or ( c ) an observer-as-participant , a less common mode , usually involving a brief visit with limited participation . |
| 26 | Because when the boredom begins to set in as you lie motionless under the sun , you can do your exercises then ! |
| 27 | We can not do just as we like because we are limited , or constrained , by ( i ) the amount of money , or capital , we have ; ( ii ) the inventions , or technology , available ; ( iii ) the space , or land , available ; ( iv ) the resources , such as fuel or timber , or existing roads and buildings ; ( v ) the desires of other human beings which may conflict with ours . |
| 28 | You know if they think they can do just as they like at that age , well I mean er the , the |
| 29 | ‘ You think that you can do just as you like — well , you 're wrong . ’ |
| 30 | I do n't think they blare away as they come into the hospital . |