Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want you to try and do that for as long as you can , the person 's who 's trying to take them off it you try and take them off that point as long as you can , the other person stick to your guns , okay ? |
| 2 | As a church architect , I have visited , I believe , all the cathedrals in Europe — Chartres , Burgos , Canterbury , Cologne , Saragossa , Milano , Ely , Zagreb , Gozo , Rheims — ’ I continued to name them for some while as we tramped down the nave . |
| 3 | They swear black and blue , they charge you for that meter as well ! |
| 4 | I have come to you tonight as much to thank you for that answer as to explain to those of you who already plan to make your home in Eretz — and to any others who may make such a decision in the future — what lies before you . ’ |
| 5 | Do you mean to tell me that the girls ask you for such stuff as you have been reading ? |
| 6 | I have included your name on my mailing list for EFL software , and will write to you with more information as soon as I am able . |
| 7 | I am bound to say that his personality and his voice with his Glasgow accent were a little disconcerting at first ( I felt rather as if I were being addressed by my highly educated carpenter ) , but he inspired me with such confidence as he went on that I forgot that , and of course one has to recognise that a new era in political life has dawned for England , the old aristocratic school is practically swept out of it , it is the dawn of the new " regime " . |
| 8 | When Eliot had spoken well of me in the reply to John Garrett , to which I have referred , the latter was slightly miffed , I could tell ; for although he showed it me with some pride as being a favourable reply to his request , he countered the praise it contained by saying that Eliot was being far too kind to an absolute novice . |
| 9 | Even Purvis treated me with more respect as I sauntered out . |
| 10 | But as Chomsky himself remarked when he abandoned them with some reluctance as theoretical constructs , these kernel sentences actually have considerable intuitive appeal . |
| 11 | Keep them from all panic as they put their trust in your power to keep . |
| 12 | While the party contains many who actively seek peace and reconciliation , it would be wrong to think of them in any sense as overcoming the basic conflictual components of bloc power in Ireland . |
| 13 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 14 | Where politicians have challenged him , he has outmanoeuvred them until such time as he perceived his work to be done ; and then — Vienna 1964 , Berlin 1989 — he simply and quickly stepped aside to move on to fresh projects . |
| 15 | But , we 've seen them on this side as well ! |
| 16 | Could you please advise me on this matter as there is so little literature available on skin allergies and pigmentation . |
| 17 | It would have meant nothing to that pervert to let her stay … he had wielded the knife , the cruel swine … telling her he regretted there was nothing for her when all the time he was still hiring people … examining her through that monocle as though he was God … |
| 18 | Further , and in acknowledgment of his work as joint secretary of the Tutorial Classes Committee and for his duties in connection with the annual Cambridge Summer School Pateman also received a substantial honorarium which provided him with some security as his salary as District Secretary was not infrequently in arrears . |
| 19 | Section 34 of the EPA requires a broker in waste or any person producing , importing , carrying , keeping , treating or disposing of waste ( other than a householder ) to ‘ take all such measures applicable to him in that capacity as are reasonable in the circumstances ’ to : |
| 20 | He felt it would soon be the moment to make a move , and her behaviour left him in little doubt as to what sort of move it should be . |
| 21 | And we 've got to include him in some crime as soon as we can . |
| 22 | Was there an intention to try to blackmail her in some way as well as Derek ? |
| 23 | The last thing she wanted was for Tom to take her under his wing , to regard her in some sense as his find and his property , but that was what was happening . |
| 24 | The logical conclusion of all this is that there can no longer be a justification for the massive nuclear arsenals held by both sides , that only the absolute minimum of nuclear defence is required and that , because President Yeltsin , too , now has his finger on the nuclear button , we should now be doing business with him on this issue as on so many others . |
| 25 | By a summons dated 10 April 1992 the local authority sought orders against W. and her aunt , who shared with the local authority parental responsibility for her , that leave be given to move her to such establishment as the Official Solicitor might approve and to give her medical treatment without her consent . |
| 26 | When David first brought her to this house as his wife , Beth had hoped she could fit in , make this place a proper home for all of them . |
| 27 | Well it well ah but ah but they never they never killed it in that quantity as they 're doing it now . |
| 28 | We extend it to this year as well as last ? |
| 29 | But Ministers are unlikely to give it to either group as Mr Major does not want the lottery to be seen as gambling . |
| 30 | It is often part of an author 's technique to leave us in some doubt as to what precisely is going on in the fictional world , as Katherine Mansfield does here . |