Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember it as I saw it one evening , lit by the setting sun against a background of threatening clouds . |
| 2 | That weekend is also memorable for something Dana said to me in the train on the way back to Salamanca : ‘ I knew you were gay as soon as I saw you that morning in the galleria . ’ |
| 3 | As I expected it all happened halfway along . |
| 4 | As I told you that was all a long time ago . |
| 5 | As I told you all |
| 6 | Aye , and er you see I used to go over , I used to go over on a Sunday , when they came , if you , on the er well you see as I told you this chap here . |
| 7 | ‘ Vargas could drop the lot of us , as I told you This would be exactly what British Intelligence wanted . |
| 8 | ‘ As I told you last night , she made all the arrangements herself . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ As I told you last night , this is the only time I 've ever been to Venice . ’ |
| 10 | Your jewels Eachuinn Odhar gave to me , to return to you or not as I judged you innocent or guilty . |
| 11 | But as I studied him any aggressive feelings I may have harboured evaporated quickly . |
| 12 | As I promised you last week , this is going to be a second look at that very British of institutions , the Magistrates ' Court . |
| 13 | I asked my neighbour to turn down her records as I found it impossible to concentrate and she said the only way she could cope with the stress of her reality was to blast her music . |
| 14 | It almost broke her heart when she saw that darting look of imitation cross his face as she brought him bad news . |
| 15 | No fool , Celia remembered thinking , as she drove them both back to the home she was soon to vacate . |
| 16 | She crawled back to the door and got to her feet , taking a deep steadying breath as she reached for the handle , grimacing slightly as she eased it open and stepped through the doorway , sending up a silent prayer that no creaking floorboard would announce her presence prematurely . |
| 17 | ‘ And I 've missed you as well , ’ she laughed , as she hugged them both . |
| 18 | Maggie looked at him with the light of love as she kissed him good night . |
| 19 | Myra sobbed as she told me that , although many men were attracted to her — and she to them — as soon as the relationship reached the stage of even the most innocent physical contact , such as a gentle kiss or even holding hands , something in her forced her to draw back and run away from the situation . |
| 20 | He had n't said a great deal , content to look at her as she told him all about life in the convent and of the strange foibles of some of her companions . |
| 21 | She kept up a running commentary as she chased him 50 yards across Lawrence Road before collapsing in a pool of blood . |
| 22 | But they were unable to spin out their game for long ; impatience got the better of them and they returned the puppy , which stood shivering under its mother 's tongue as she licked it clean of foreign influences . |
| 23 | Quite out of the blue her sense of the ridiculous erupted ; the parallel he 'd drawn appealed to her , and she found herself actually laughing as she handed him one of the bowls . |
| 24 | Snow was banked behind it , dredging against the bottom as she pushed it open . |
| 25 | Indubitably it was full of madmen , and women too , much as she found them fun to be with . |
| 26 | Well a as soon as she gave me this erm protective thing to wear and and then told me that I was grown up and every . |
| 27 | I do n't know what view of these events my uncles took as we woke them early and followed them around as faithfully as any spaniel — maybe that was why they often nipped off to the pub in the evenings . |
| 28 | But … but , as Mama said , as long as we kept it clean and it was only for a short time … |
| 29 | Jennifer , of Dewsbury , Yorks , said : ‘ As soon as we divorced we both realised we 'd made a mistake . ’ |
| 30 | Gilbert had been standing next to them and almost fell down the stairs in his efforts to get away from those doors as something shouldered them open . |