Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investors are reminded that as a consequence of the general nature of the investments held and of possible exchange and interest rate fluctuations , the value of their shares and the yield from them may go down as well as up and that past performance is no guide to the future . |
| 2 | I must finish now as I have to prepare teaching for tomorrow . |
| 3 | Well I must stop now as the V.C.s are due to arrive any minute . |
| 4 | I just thought I should do exactly as they said . |
| 5 | think I might stop now as there 's too , recording 's gon na be getting a bit difficult . |
| 6 | ‘ Thought I might go along as well , ’ said Moreau casually . |
| 7 | Shame to go back , I 'll stay today as well . |
| 8 | This this is I I I 'll start off as I say I 've I 've written a covering letter |
| 9 | I 'll go down as well okay . |
| 10 | I 'll tell Joe-soon as I see 'im , ’ he replied . |
| 11 | If it happens , you 're dead and I 'll get out as best I can . |
| 12 | I 'll get out as soon as I can , of course … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll get back as soon as I can , ’ he promised . |
| 14 | Mr , hello I 've had a quick word with Mike and he seems to think there 's some correspondence on the file , I 'll have to go and find the file and get back to you , so , er you , I have n't got your , your phone number there I do n't think , er I only had your fax number right , I 'll get back as soon as I can , thank you bye bye . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I remember one day , there was an awful row and a crowd gathered and Mary Jane Worty said : ‘ I 'll come down as long as that young PC there takes me into Argyle Street Bridewell . ’ |
| 16 | I 'll keep on as long as I can . |
| 17 | ‘ No — perhaps I 'll call in as I leave , ’ she added pointedly for Feargal 's benefit . |
| 18 | I 'll try again as soon as you leave . ’ |
| 19 | erm Now , possibly I could go on as to whether in fact we could do anything about preserving the tropical forest in this country . |
| 20 | But on the question of grant maintained , of course , let's not forget what happened some time ago in places like Manchester Grammar School erm long before we had this new opting out legislation they were forced by the Labour Government to go direct grant , which they did , and they are a highly successful and I could rehearse just as many success stories , in fact many times more than Jack has rehearsed with his Hull Grammar School . |
| 21 | I could come back as Kylie Minogue 's bra , but that would leave me seriously unfulfilled . |
| 22 | This is the great hall and I could spend easily as long as I 've already spent on on this hall but I wo n't . |
| 23 | All the while you were building this future I knew there 'd come a morning like this , when I 'd smile sadly as I left you , when I 'd give a last half wave at the corner , when I 'd set my face to the reality of the serious work ahead . |
| 24 | I promised I 'd ring home as soon as I arrived yesterday , but somehow … with all the mix-up … |
| 25 | I had , however , already decided that I would do hypothetically as I would in practice for an Uaru tank — collect my own gravel and rocks fro the wild state . |
| 26 | I would think so as I would have think so . |
| 27 | All I was really clear about was that this time I would go on as long as my lungs and muscles would function . |
| 28 | There is another duty also to be considered : and that is the duty which Lord Atkin put in this wise : ‘ You must not injure your neighbour : ’ which I would expand so as to say that there is a duty on every man not to injure his neighbour by his want of reasonable care . |
| 29 | I decided long ago that I would cut out as soon as shooting began . |
| 30 | I have sufficient intellectual control so that my bats only last about three days — his would last sometimes as long as three weeks . |