Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [adv] that " 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 | Something inside me stretched as I walked so that at the same time I was walking on the top of those hills . |
| 3 | I turned back to my plate , registering as I did so that Geoff Tulloch , who was with a group of his data-processing colleagues at a nearby table , had noticed our interest . |
| 4 | I learnt an enormous amount and felt then as I do now that there really is n't enough training . |
| 5 | The haunting words of Dowson 's poem , which had brought us together again in 1943 , returned to me as I stood on that Paris balcony : |
| 6 | You can see so little as you blunder on that you are an easy target for any animal seeking fresh meat . |
| 7 | Use a strip of knitting as long as you want for your finished garland , sewn as you go so that you have a covered cone , about six inches of knitting unsewn , another cone — as long as long as you want your garland to be . |
| 8 | She felt as she lay there that it was she who had done wrong . |
| 9 | It made something sting behind her eyes as she thought now that it was all finished for him . |
| 10 | She saw Elaine as soon as she walked up the planked wooden steps to the bar , and noticed as she drew closer that her friend was already tipsy . |
| 11 | Just inside the entrance , she turned to survey the clientèle , making sure as she did so that all the men got a tantalising glimpse of a very long and elegant leg exposed through a side slit . |
| 12 | Rain set up her coffee machine , thinking as she did so that Oliver had probably not been with Linda Finch although he might encourage her to believe that . |
| 13 | Colour swam under her skin , and she moved further into the room and closed the door , feeling as she did so that she was cutting off her last line of retreat . |
| 14 | But as we said earlier that some of us who have been in the truth for a long time we were like that years ago , but somewhere along the line we 've become drowsy and a little sort of halfhearted and maybe dozing a little bit as we go down that sort of motorway er of spirituality and that , that the longer you go it can become more difficult because other things come along do n't they ? |
| 15 | As long as we know now that it works . |
| 16 | We just got told as soon as we turned up that the course was cut with immediate effect . |
| 17 | We just got told as soon as we turned up that the course was cut with immediate effect . |
| 18 | An extreme example of this occurred when a hospital social worker was asked to see a family who refused to allow a newly bereaved husband to leave hospital to attend his wife 's funeral , as they felt angrily that he had contributed to her unexpected death with his demands . |
| 19 | Other researchers express more cautious optimism as they point out that the carbon dioxide fertilization effect may be offset in some regions by changes in climate . |
| 20 | Sisyrinchium can last up to six weeks when cut , although you must keep removing dead flowers as they die so that the buds at the top will carry on opening . |
| 21 | As the enemy advances the hand gunners use their ability to change ranks as they fire so that they creep closer to the enemy . |
| 22 | It was only as they drew nearer that he began to make out that it was the concrete skeleton of an unfinished three-storey duplex , its half-built walls , pillars and floors rising out of a sea of mud . |
| 23 | A moire fringe unit monitors the horizontal azimuth of the beam as it sweeps so that it does not go out of alignment . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , these arguments do not constitute a definitive refutation of inductivism , especially as it turns out that many rival theories of science face a similar , related difficulty . |
| 25 | Nor is there anything remotely convincing about its performance ; there is a feeling of some urgency from 4000rpm but the power stops as suddenly as it starts so that the 6500rpm red line is a merely a figment of someone 's imagination . |
| 26 | It was just as well that Alan did decide to complete the diet after six weeks , as it turned out that many of his vitamin and mineral levels were sinking fast . |
| 27 | For this reason it is helpful to record details of the elicitation and judgment process as it proceeds so that the bare bones of a grid can later have the flesh replaced . |
| 28 | The compiler recognises the behaviour of the program as it runs so that the data can be collected and used for further program code optimisation . |
| 29 | I am bound to say that his personality and his voice with his Glasgow accent were a little disconcerting at first ( I felt rather as if I were being addressed by my highly educated carpenter ) , but he inspired me with such confidence as he went on that I forgot that , and of course one has to recognise that a new era in political life has dawned for England , the old aristocratic school is practically swept out of it , it is the dawn of the new " regime " . |
| 30 | Perhaps he was n't as completely convinced as he made out that a lost boy , however bright and confident , could not have ended in the Comer . |