Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] as [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's probably best not to feed your fish for the first day or so as they settle in ( though some fish will feed within a few minutes of being stocked ) . |
| 2 | That OR play a team like Aston Villa home or away as they try and win whatever … so you always get open games . |
| 3 | The obligation to provide free school milk and to provide school meals was removed , allowing LEAs to provide milk or meals or not as they wished , at whatever cost or standard they chose ( including free milk or meals , if they wished , for families on low incomes ) , apart from a responsibility to provide free meals for children of families receiving Supplementary Benefit or Family Income Supplement , and to provide facilities free of charge for pupils to eat food brought from home . |
| 4 | Although Angel was free to marry or not as he wished , he did not want to hurt his parents , and he accepted their advice . |
| 5 | Claudia made for the street , leaving him to follow or not as he pleased . |
| 6 | Your jewels Eachuinn Odhar gave to me , to return to you or not as I judged you innocent or guilty . |
| 7 | And what is more , I 'll give it or not as I please ; and I 'll be buggered if I 'll ask permission of some pushy little perisher before I do so . ’ |
| 8 | Come here to see me if you will ; mother asks you , and I want you , but it is for you to come or not as you feel best , or as you like . |
| 9 | Do they do it all at once , or in chronological order , or just as it seems to emerge ? |
| 10 | And to an old person , ‘ setting the record straight ’ , or straight as they saw it , could be very important . |
| 11 | I had learnt during my journey in 1930 that the Danakil , or Afar as they called themselves , were divided into the Asaimara or Red Men , who comprised the tribes of noble descent , and the Adoimara or White Men . |
| 12 | But does it live self-consciously , or blithely as it did when I was a child ? |
| 13 | These movements are similar to the normal rotations of the pelvis when you stand up , so the patient is practising them in order not to jerk upwards awkwardly or sideways as he stands , as this would inevitably knock him off balance . |
| 14 | But she put it up here , I think probably to make it easier , I mean if anyone 's had , I do n't know if anyone had children in the seventies when it was the fashion to wear very long skirts , or even as I find going up and down stairs in my nightie , you 're more than likely to fall and break a leg and the baby 's neck at the same time , if you wear a long skirt . |
| 15 | We must approach observations of linguistic behaviour with the same careful attitude as we approach other kinds of behaviour or indeed as we approach our electrophysiological observations . |
| 16 | Once or twice as they waited for the ceremonial to begin he saw the eyes of the Annamese sovereign shift anxiously in their direction and he dabbed occasionally at his pale perspiring face with a silken handkerchief that he held concealed in one of his voluminous sleeves . |
| 17 | Gaining the tar-sweated hill with my mother 's lean legs pumping swiftly , the willowy sight of streaky high dunes on the horizon awaited us , waving to and fro as they did , sheltering an occasional beige box of a house , a modern cube . |
| 18 | She gently rocked the chair to and fro as she started to work on the head of a unicorn in white embroidery cotton . |
| 19 | The Fourth Fairy is a songbird bringing the gift of Language and flutters to and fro as she sings . |
| 20 | A spinner with a great ( or walking ) wheel could perhaps work here , space being required for the spinner to walk to and fro as she worked , though the height of the canopy would be a determining factor . |
| 21 | He glanced to and fro as he walked back across the road , but no-one was there . |
| 22 | I remember too the suppressed terror I felt one Saturday morning when there was a daylight raid over London and a swarm of black flies appeared in the blue sky and seemed to come on and on as we looked out of our house high on Hampstead Heath . |
| 23 | Before anyone could say a word he had turned on his heel and strode off looking to left and right as he went . |
| 24 | The British attitude to Europe remained as functional and piecemeal as it had been in the time of Ernest Bevin after 1945 . |
| 25 | His arm waggled , as if he were groping for something , and then his hand appeared as softly and suddenly as it had vanished : holding the fifth ball . |
| 26 | It was an absolute disgrace , it really was a disgrace , and so as we 'd been informed by somebody at , now do n't ask me who cos I do n't know , but from one of the public meetings we held , er they said you can phone up any time and you y the rubbish would be collected . |
| 27 | You 'll be doing him a favour , she 'd thought , and so as he wandered past the kitchen on a mid-afternoon stroll she crept up behind him and grabbed him by the neck . |
| 28 | And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time . |
| 29 | And so as I understand it that 's the situation |
| 30 | Any morning you could see them tearing through the tree-tops , chasing each other up and down as they searched for the red berries that they loved . |