Example sentences of "on [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was impressed on me very strongly as one of R. C. Moore 's regiment of workers producing Volume H of his vast Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology . |
| 2 | The land folded in on itself as far as you could see — green and brown hillsides sinking down in repetition , marked by the dark masses of trees and hedges . |
| 3 | She had spent Christmas with her sister 's family and her own two children in Toowoomba , but was back on deck today as if the festive season did n't exist , and this waiting for Faye 's baby was taking its toll on her as well as on everyone else . |
| 4 | That same mood was on him even now as he stood there looking up at the house . |
| 5 | It was clear that the events of 17 May 1968 had left their mark on him as indelibly as they had on Willy Morpurgo . |
| 6 | Yet he deposited her on it as carefully as if she were china , and that brought a weak tear to her eye . |
| 7 | Browne had tentatively suggested the summer of that year as the " deadline " for it , but Eliot was uncertain how quickly he could recover his dramatic skills and , since he often needed to work slowly , he believed the spring of 1949 to be a more appropriate date.Throughout the spring and summer of 1948 he worked on it as consistently as he could , although there were egregious interruptions : in April , for example , he had to make the British Council trip to Aix-en-Provence which had been postponed the previous winter . |
| 8 | That put the tin lid on it as far as Patrick Kelly was concerned . |
| 9 | I wanted desperately to be with him , to comfort him , but somehow I made myself keep walking , and when a coach passed , I arranged to travel on it as far as my money would pay for . |
| 10 | Soviet leaders strove to convince the non-aligned states that Moscow had no objection to the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact or the imposition of restraints on it so long as these measures applied equally to NATO . |
| 11 | It does n't dispense with the observation of nature and it works on us as familiarly as nature itself . ’ |