Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The banners we have are getting tatty as no-one worries very much how they are stored . |
| 2 | name ; is a very respectable cook , so we make occasional trips to the supermarket and to the open market , and then eat at home in the evening , although we can also go out to a restaurant for a meal if we want , as someone has now kindly lent us a car . |
| 3 | We have now moved off the railway and appear to be moving across country , stopping and starting as someone scouts out ahead . |
| 4 | Sister Paul would pretend not to see me as I hung about outside around the staffroom to see her pass by for the third time that day . |
| 5 | I went back to the dining-room window , and as I looked in again , Stapleton left the room and came out of the house . |
| 6 | I remember thinking something unprintable as I flew through the air and remember wishing I 'd worn a body protector as I landed very hard . |
| 7 | As I go back downstairs I begin to feel that this woman is making fools of us all — of Summerchild , Tite and Harold Wilson , of Ken Hurren and myself . |
| 8 | If there is one thing more disagreeable than removing the bovine afterbirth it is watching somebody else doing it , and I always try to maintain a conversation as I grope around inside . |
| 9 | ’ I stopped speaking as I noticed how strangely he was staring at me . |
| 10 | I 'm pretty sure that I was the only mother & baby entrant as I struggled on sometimes running , sometimes walking around the 10 mile course encouraged by the smiles and cheers of the many people who lined the route . |
| 11 | I got up quickly , as I had n't really started to drop off when it went , and ran down to get there before my father . |
| 12 | As I had never actually made a cold application for a job before , I did n't really know what to make of this . |
| 13 | We visited Blackwell 's , such a bookshop as I had never before seen , and Vivien left with armfuls of books , and I , happy with one modest Penguin . |
| 14 | As I had only very limited experience in writing in output terms , the process was exacting and extremely slow progress was made initially . |
| 15 | At the Hospedaje Lisboa where Dana stayed — ‘ Camas , Comidas ’ — I looked up at his window as I had so often done on those lonely days and nights he spent away from me . |
| 16 | I kept thinking about that reception as I drove blissfully home . |
| 17 | Bitter thoughts assailed me as I lurched forward once more . |
| 18 | As long as I kept just over 80mph I reckoned that , even in a red Porsche , the traffic police would turn a blind eye . |
| 19 | You can , as I said just now , pick up the gauntlet and say squeeze him out and force him through the cones and whatever thing might result of that , you just do n't know , or you can say , Well alright , ease off , go on , you have the space , I do n't really need it , I 'm not in a hurry . |
| 20 | As I said just now , it 's not going to work . |
| 21 | Well as i said earlier today |
| 22 | Now we 've actually found seventy thousand pounds worth of savings we have n't made anybody redundant and we 've actually quite clearly taken in that seventy thousand pounds within our overall budget past decisions has had to be taken and they 've been taken as I said earlier hopefully when the financial climate gets better we perhaps we 'll be able to other things all or were revert back to things that we we do wish to do because the the financial restraints on us . |
| 23 | Cheerful crashes and bangs floated up from Doris 's kitchen as I went back upstairs , and I could hear outbursts of raucous male laughter and pinch-induced shrieks . |
| 24 | ‘ But it 's a long-term investment and , as I 've only just explained , I have n't got that kind of capital . |
| 25 | And th th they have n't got a twang as far as I know anyway so |
| 26 | He was making for the door when he stopped and half turned back towards her and said , ‘ By the way , Aggie , very little escapes you , as I know only too well , but have you noticed any difference in Jessie of late ? ’ |
| 27 | That may go down well with some Euro-sceptics among Conservative Members , but it infuriates our partners and reduces our influence in the Community , as I know only too well . |
| 28 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 29 | I relived the murder as I walked back home through the streets . |
| 30 | He treated every patient with the same love and care , and so , as I discovered very quickly , he was worshipped by the islanders . |