Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh it is now yes , you 've got , I mean you 've got the service now have n't you and erm , but I like at St Margaret 's hospital I 'd been , I had been , I went in there to have my last boy , but they 're very , very good there they were , I 've not been in , I 've been in , I 've had treatment here for my hip and that up at Harlow but they would n't do the operation because of my blood clotting you see , so therefore I 've got to grin and bear it , I 've had eight years of it , I could n't walk for six months , but now I struggle and get around as I say with a couple of sticks I get round |
| 2 | One became a pitbull Poodle as I approached with a coat , and Bizzie ( pictured here ) just froze . |
| 3 | You know , that 's in the days when I was seventeen year old , I could go'n stick a fork into a truss weighing into eleven stone and pitch thet up high as you like with a fork , as high as I could reach . |
| 4 | Surely you know that , living as you do with a child-woman ? |
| 5 | Orientate this drawing as you do with a map when flying . |
| 6 | ‘ Coming home after six hours or so , as you do with a domino birth , is actually more restful than staying in for 24 or 48 hours , ’ she says . |
| 7 | Then you 're better off as you say with an end one . |
| 8 | As you start with a side of no-hopers , you need to spend wisely on players . |
| 9 | If both the frame and substitution items have gliding tones that is of course an added difficulty , but as long as you work with a frame that stays the same , you at least have something constant with which to compare the substitution items . |
| 10 | Folly sat up ; then clutched the sheet to her as she realised with a shock that she was naked . |
| 11 | But then the near triumphant feeling of satisfaction quickly changed to one of horror , as she realised with a cry that the co-ordination of her limbs was n't what it should be , and she found herself falling heavily and clumsily into the basin of chill water below . |
| 12 | She knew her hands were trembling as she fiddled with a pen on the desk . |
| 13 | As she toyed with a pottery unicorn made by Leonora during her stay in Bart 's , Lady Romsey added : ‘ When we knew she was n't going to survive we said , ‘ We will get through this and we will still thank Bart 's . |
| 14 | ‘ She liked to think , as she lay in her corner , that she was shut in a cage with some powerful wild animal , a tiger or a lion or a bear , who had devoured his keeper and would spring upon anyone else who opened his door , but with whom she was ‘ quite safe and conceited ’ , as she said with a chuckle . ’ |
| 15 | The 18-month-old boy was picked up by his mother as she fled with a man and a teenage youth from the wrecked car . |
| 16 | ‘ I have these dreams , ’ Lee said , as she worked with a red plastic scourer . |
| 17 | Lucy refused to take offence , yet her chin rose slightly as she spoke with a smile . |
| 18 | As she sat with a whisky and waited for Constance 's call , she listened to the autumn wind tugging at the corners of the austere house . |
| 19 | Alternatively , will it be used primarily by an individual , teaching himself/herself the language as he/she works with a language assistant ? |
| 20 | THE African National Congress and its leader , Nelson Mandela , are on public trial over their integrity and professed democratic principles as they struggle with a mass of allegations connecting Mrs Winnie Mandela to murders and other scandals . |
| 21 | So she watched , and listened , and fell a little further , and when his bleep went she went back with him to the department and they worked side by side , communicating with a gesture or a word almost in silence , each anticipating the other 's needs as they dealt with a little girl who had fallen out of a tree and broken both arms and one leg . |
| 22 | INDIA 'S Sanjay Manjrekar hit a timely unbeaten century as they drew with a South African Invitation XI in Bloemfontein yesterday . |
| 23 | They are used to working long hard hours and often in their new independent state — with great delight — employ men for menial tasks only , or for other services , as they hint with a smile . |
| 24 | if you hit something twice as big to what you 're hitting it 'll go twice as fast as it does with a snooker ball . |
| 25 | The event would conclude as it began with a handshake . |
| 26 | HTV made a pre-tax loss of £2.1m last year and shareholders are receiving no dividend as it copes with a £20.5m bill this year for its franchise licence to broadcast . |
| 27 | ‘ Heightened expectation on the part of supporters is understandable and tolerable so long as it comes with a sense of realism . |
| 28 | He had , however , chosen to publicise his act of departure , and this public disavowal , coinciding as it did with a ferocious government anti-communist crackdown , was inevitably interpreted as a treacherous stab in the back that could not pass unavenged . |
| 29 | Moreover , as he made clear , he found the measured pace and rhythm of the work especially congenial , coinciding as it did with a period of remarkable creative gestation . |
| 30 | It is a special occasion as it coincides with a lovely Flower Celebration and we have Canon Harney to thank very much for allowing this to happen in our lovely Cathedral . |