Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was good to be up mountains again , as I used to enjoy mountaineering before my accident . |
| 2 | Yes , that 's right in That 's er , that 's where it was , my lad and that was the entry as I used to get access from remembering it ai n't quite like it was now , my lad . |
| 3 | As much as I could do south of the equator |
| 4 | As far as I could tell Frank had recovered from the breakdown we witnessed in late 1986 and , despite the months alone and the awful beatings he 'd received in the Pigsty , he still had a great sense of humour and told us hysterical episodes from his life , many of them against himself . |
| 5 | It attracted me like a magnet when I was a youth , and soon as I could leave school I was up at the course for a caddying job . |
| 6 | I was determined to keep control and do as much as I could to help things on . |
| 7 | I was ashamed of him , especially as I could see Estella laughing at me over Miss Havisham 's shoulder . |
| 8 | I 'll only bid as far as I can pay Mr . |
| 9 | ‘ If I promise to practise putting the cap on the toothpaste , will you marry me as soon as I can make arrangements ? ’ |
| 10 | There 's not so many warm spots as I can spare this'n . ’ |
| 11 | As far as I can understand Samson 's Lane is from the school down to Samson 's Farm and probably part of the road down to . |
| 12 | I like to do as much as I can to help Radio Skerne . |
| 13 | As far as I can remember Professor Ricks 's lecture , his argument was that if the factual side of literature becomes unreliable , then ploys such as irony and fantasy become much harder to use . |
| 14 | His mother says that he talked to her about it and she tried to convince him that he was misinterpreting what he had seen and heard , but as far as I can learn John never mentioned it to anyone else until late in life , when telling Dr Schäfer about the thoughts which led him to make his ballet Spuren . |
| 15 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 16 | I shall be writing the notes on my experiments , of course , and I intend to spend as much time as I can refuting Carslake 's idiotic principle . |
| 17 | In the end , where it was necessary to decide compromises , with such issues as who could use women 's and lesbian and gay centres , behaviours often had to be allocated the moral high ground on highly pragmatic criteria : that they were private , or that they did n't involve conspicuous clothing , for instance . |
| 18 | Or you treat them as you would treat gold ingots . |
| 19 | Remember that adults should n't be treated in the same way as you would treat children . |
| 20 | They would make pails and basins like you were being requiring in your sc er scullery or in the milk house as you would keep milk there . |
| 21 | In just the same way , you simply ca n't use coir in exactly the same way as you would use peat . |
| 22 | Use smetana exactly as you would use yogurt . |
| 23 | To do unto others as you would have others do unto you . |
| 24 | strong word , I am but as you would say walrus ha ha ha I 'm a cobbler . |
| 25 | The problem is that try as you might to obliterate jealousy , jealousy keeps cropping up — that 's certainly my experience . |
| 26 | Many physicists ( pronounced ‘ fizzy-sists ’ ) have large pictures of him on the walls of their laboratories — just as you might have pictures of your favourite pop stars on the walls of your bedroom at home . |
| 27 | She was looking at the the question of self-scripture , and she has as a a criteria for differentiation or some , or as you might say boundary marks , it 's a question of boundaries between different groups . |
| 28 | Now it may be a six hour drive from the Central Belt and a short one hour Loganair flight from Edinburgh but as you 'll see Katie 's destination is the last word in luxury . |
| 29 | As you may know Scorton will again enter the Best Kept Village competition in 1992 . |
| 30 | I mean , alright , we know you 're handling large lumps of money , but when you think of it , if you , if you , borrowed it at a different rate , you know , same rate as you could do finance , 'cos which I think the government could do it and make a profit at it . |