Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 2 | I remember when I thought lipstick had gone forever , a dream of painted excess , as I thought paper taffeta had gone forever , in Cambridge , when we all took to glazed cotton . |
| 3 | And both these events are in keeping with the image we 're seeking and as I said self financing . |
| 4 | In the end , I decided the most prudent moment in the day would be as I served afternoon tea in the drawing room . |
| 5 | Now they untangled themselves to watch as I layered face cream on to my face and hands in the endless battle to save my skin from drying up altogether . |
| 6 | We doubled resources in 1989 , and as soon as I became Home Secretary , I realised that that was one of the most important issues that I would have to deal with . |
| 7 | As soon as I started work part of my salary went towards buying a radio . |
| 8 | Well as I say dock area , they might live about half a mile away that was all . |
| 9 | Fact recognition method it 's a piece of hardware and one of the things that 's clear actually is that er the Alexander worlds and all sorts of other people that were working on this do n't look at them in this way and they look at these as I say ram blocks . |
| 10 | ‘ I only hung around as long as I did thinking Maggie might come and see me , which she did , ’ Charlie replied . |
| 11 | I propose , as I believe Judge Diamond intended , to consider the preliminary issue on the premise that the effect of the relevant allegations in the statement of claim is as follows : ( 1 ) The health authority 's treatment of the delivery of the plaintiff and the confinement of his mother lacked proper skill and care in respects which were foreseeably likely to result in the plaintiff being born with disabilities . |
| 12 | ‘ As soon as I mentioned walking boots I knew you would n't want to come . |
| 13 | The problem is , as you access customer transactions and might want to raise an invoice , it 's intuitive to click on the INVOICE button in that section , thinking , not un-naturally , that it 's the right thing to do . |
| 14 | Yes , you you 've got to extend the route , well of course you 've got to put up , trolley poles every for about forty yards and then of course there was two lengths of trolley wire that had to go because as you know trolley buses used to have two arms , positive and negative supply and er , of course the bus had to come back er alongside the premiu the outward route , it come on , so you had four wires up there and the cost of copper wire was terrific so the motor buses were developed and we expenim experimented with the buses on , on extensions mainly but when the extensions were finished we then begradged because trolley wires were then beginning to wear out , rather than replace them they would convert a trolley route into a bus route , and erm because the erm , there was a lot of people hated to see the demise of the trolley buses because they were so clean and silent and the buses came , you got the deal sloke and lumbering of the old engines , that a lot of people hated to see the trolley buses go but cos that was the , the reason that they went . |
| 15 | The Company operates the Give As You Earn payroll deduction scheme for donations to charities under the auspices of the Charities Aid Foundation . |
| 16 | Simple as that , cos this plan , is like a sort of pay as you go type plan , I mean , you 're not building up huge cash reserves that you gon na lose out on , by cancelling early , |
| 17 | as you gather desert grasses |
| 18 | The route follows minor roads , woodland paths , paths across fields and cliff-tops as you cross Whitecliff Bay to reach Sandown . |
| 19 | Bolton , who hoped to marry Nicolette as soon as she divorces co-star Harry Hamlin , says : ‘ My fans love my hair — it 's part of my image . |
| 20 | COMEDIENNE Victoria Wood looks the typical young mother as she takes daughter Grace on a last-minute Christmas shopping trip yesterday . |
| 21 | The lifeboat was scarcely controllable as she took heave head seas overall but once clear of the dangerous rocks James Douglas headed for St Abbs where one group of divers had been caught in the storm . |
| 22 | Moma Parsheen cried out as she sensed environment flooding back , the way that sensation needles through a frozen limb . |
| 23 | As she approached County Hall on New Street , she was grabbed from behind by a man who dragged her down an alley . |
| 24 | As she shares Christmas dinner with her brother Charles , Diana will experience for the first time the trauma she has dreaded since the cracks first showed in her marriage . |
| 25 | A natural tendency in times of recession is to batten down the hatches and look after our own needs , but as we sold raffle tickets in aid of our livestock projects in Uganda , people at the Royal certainly supported our scheme with cheerful generosity . |
| 26 | However , half-a-thumb's-length beyond it ( roughly two minutes at 75kts ) is another very distinctive marker point , a 300ft mast reaching to over 700ft amsl ( L ) which we can use to back-confirm our time over the half-way point as we pass south abeam it . |
| 27 | Our on-going employees have also had to participate in the task of keeping costs under control as we freeze salary levels and restructure staff benefits . |
| 28 | As we approached Pen y Gwryd the usual game unfurled . |
| 29 | As we approached Prospect Point before the Narrows and Lions Gate Bridge , we were hailed by another craft closer to the shore . |
| 30 | Just as we find animal perception hard to imagine because we have a different mind structure to other creatures , so too do we have difficulty understanding their language . |