Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got very depressed — there was no particular reason , just a lowering of spirits as I realized again that , for the foreseeable future , we were going nowhere . |
| 2 | As I looked in and stiffened with surprise and horror at the scene , he appeared to be putting a handful of grey matter back into a broken skull . |
| 3 | th than first thing in the morning erm whereas I , I think probably I am probably better as soon as I get up than last thing at night . |
| 4 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
| 5 | The third area I need to take you through is some erm typographical amendments to the resolutions that you have in front of you , so if you just bear with me I proposed to go through those and perhaps if you want to mark them on the sheets as I go through and if I 'm going too fast erm just wave . |
| 6 | So I have to make decisions as I go along as to which points need to be spelled out , which of them can be stated sparely , or which of them do not need to be mentioned at all but can be left to be inferred . |
| 7 | My smile stays really charming as I stop forward and kick , flat-footed , against the edge of the door . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'll do as I wish sooner or later . ’ |
| 9 | The London-Glasgow train was packed to capacity as I struggled aboard and managed to find a small space opposite the toilet ; the corridor and compartments being jampacked with a seething mass of Service people . |
| 10 | Then he began to change his ground , to slip from real remorse into disguised anger , saying that he should never have trapped me into domesticity , meaning , of course , that I should never have trapped him , and , instead of getting angry underneath — as I had earlier when he was being honest with me — I felt an enormous , trembling sympathy with him and begged him to stop : he was n't , after all , responsible for everything . |
| 11 | As I cycled faster and faster each morning as my legs grew stronger , I would imagine myself to be beating a world record for the number of times anyone could ride round our yard in one morning . |
| 12 | But as I thought then and it has proved since , it made a good story — The pump and towing car did not fare so lightly ; they caught the blast , we missed it . |
| 13 | I d I could only glanced at it as I drove past cos the traffic was moving fairly quickly for the lights there you know . |
| 14 | As I grew further and further into middle age , spinning stories for myself and my typewriter , so Joyce spun webs from which Mafias sprung in magical profusion . |
| 15 | I smiled as I passed by but he did n't see me . |
| 16 | Er , this year hopefully er , with pressure , again as I said earlier but nevertheless we are hoping and having er , put in our new price increases for the season which is more or less beginning now . |
| 17 | As I said more than once during this review , I keep forgetting that what I have in my hands is a £300 Korean-made guitar , not one costing three times as much . |
| 18 | as I said before as a relief clerk |
| 19 | As ever , little was done to conceal anything from me as I went in and out of the various rooms in which these gentlemen sat deep in discussion , and I thus could not avoid gaining a certain impression of the general mood at this stage of the proceedings . |
| 20 | Especially as I went in and he gave me those brochures . |
| 21 | He makes me laugh though , I mean , as soon as I came downstairs and he 'd been in the lounge |
| 22 | ‘ It 's just that he was passing the house as I came in and he looked at me really strangely . |
| 23 | As I walked on and the eerie crunch , crunch sounded behind me , I was seized with terror and took to my heels staggering blindly . ’ |
| 24 | Something inside me stretched as I walked so that at the same time I was walking on the top of those hills . |
| 25 | I kept hugging myself as I imagined over and over telling Marcus what I knew and reassuring him that it would n't make any difference to us . |
| 26 | And barn owls are very inquisitive , as I discovered later when I began to take Dawn out into the fields . |
| 27 | But the thrill I felt at the strange beauty was swept away as I got out and the wind struck me . |
| 28 | Lots of kids had yelled with delight as I ran up and down , whooping like a Red Indian . |
| 29 | I get the ridiculous idea that as long as I walk normally and do n't start running , he will wait there , to see what I do . |
| 30 | I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin . |