Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where you know so as not to have to risk going having to go to an expensive B and B because all the cheap places have gone . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On his fifth birthday , he climbed a tall tree until he reached twig level , where he sat contentedly as the wind rocked him to and fro . |
| 4 | As someone seduced by the clever remake that was ‘ Iron Lion Zion ’ , I ca n't say that I feel quite as lubricated by this one . |
| 5 | So for that reason I do not believe that I feeling strongly as I do should im impose my views on others . |
| 6 | The interpretation of wrestling that I treat here as ‘ accepted ’ is presented in Barthes 's own utterance as an absent speech with which he is dissenting — without its existence there would be no need for his interpretation because the meaning of ‘ wrestling ’ would not be an issue . |
| 7 | To succeed , you needed to take great care that you peaked just as the winning-post hove into view . |
| 8 | What happens is that we begin well as Christians as we remember our past clearly . |
| 9 | A final glance at the cavity bed reassured her that it looked just as it should . |
| 10 | He maintains that it went straight as i die , whereas I think that it curled and dipped ( not to any great extent ) into the top right corner . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Audetto , who was present in the later stages , once denied to me that it transpired entirely as Niki says . |
| 13 | Future risks — ‘ there should be a cultural shift in the audit so that it looks forward as well as backward ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Because I just sort of went to work the following day and I worked away as normal . |
| 17 | And I think just as erm students of education draw , are taught by people from physics and mathematics and erm chemistry , just to take three examples right across the University , so several of us , in fact , do quite a lot of teaching in other areas of the University . |
| 18 | It will be a great happiness to meet George MacDonald in eternity , if I get there as well . |
| 19 | Yet there seemed such knowledge in those grey eyes , so much awareness , and she shivered again as she recalled the whipcord strength in that seemingly indolent frame . |
| 20 | Then , as she watched , a light came on in one of the upper rooms , and she shifted uneasily as she recognised Luke as he came to the window and looked out . |
| 21 | Then , like a dagger , Dawn 's words stabbed into her brain and she struggled furiously as he bent to kiss her . |
| 22 | All at once the pose for Faye seemed like a prison as she felt the heat and colour creep up her neck and face , and she jumped self-consciously as Faye said , ‘ Damn ! |
| 23 | She understood why Johnny had felt saddened when he had learned of their passing , and she smiled briefly as she recalled that she had never found the courage to tell him of the passing of that Empire , too — fearing that such knowledge could have precipitated an apoplectic fit ! |
| 24 | I have a grand-niece , my brother 's granddaughter , and two Saturdays ago I went to see her dance in Denver — and she danced just as I 've always wanted to dance . ’ |
| 25 | It confused her , that contact , and she broke away as soon as she felt the solid deck beneath her feet . |
| 26 | Her white-faced preoccupation suddenly drew everyone 's interest , and she winced inwardly as Lucy suddenly frowned . |
| 27 | The baby moved his head , and she winced slightly as she looked at him . |
| 28 | This announcement gained her a very wry glance and she fumed more as she read his looks . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Erm , on software we said we said we had to add that into our procedures anyhow , last , on our last year view meeting , did n't we , which is what we 've done and we 've also as of today set up a system of logging new software coming in and signing it . |