Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember it as I saw it one evening , lit by the setting sun against a background of threatening clouds . |
| 2 | That weekend is also memorable for something Dana said to me in the train on the way back to Salamanca : ‘ I knew you were gay as soon as I saw you that morning in the galleria . ’ |
| 3 | As I expected it all happened halfway along . |
| 4 | As I told you that was all a long time ago . |
| 5 | As I told you all |
| 6 | Aye , and er you see I used to go over , I used to go over on a Sunday , when they came , if you , on the er well you see as I told you this chap here . |
| 7 | ‘ Vargas could drop the lot of us , as I told you This would be exactly what British Intelligence wanted . |
| 8 | ‘ As I told you last night , she made all the arrangements herself . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ As I told you last night , this is the only time I 've ever been to Venice . ’ |
| 10 | Your jewels Eachuinn Odhar gave to me , to return to you or not as I judged you innocent or guilty . |
| 11 | But as I studied him any aggressive feelings I may have harboured evaporated quickly . |
| 12 | As I promised you last week , this is going to be a second look at that very British of institutions , the Magistrates ' Court . |
| 13 | I asked my neighbour to turn down her records as I found it impossible to concentrate and she said the only way she could cope with the stress of her reality was to blast her music . |
| 14 | It almost broke her heart when she saw that darting look of imitation cross his face as she brought him bad news . |
| 15 | No fool , Celia remembered thinking , as she drove them both back to the home she was soon to vacate . |
| 16 | She crawled back to the door and got to her feet , taking a deep steadying breath as she reached for the handle , grimacing slightly as she eased it open and stepped through the doorway , sending up a silent prayer that no creaking floorboard would announce her presence prematurely . |
| 17 | ‘ And I 've missed you as well , ’ she laughed , as she hugged them both . |
| 18 | Maggie looked at him with the light of love as she kissed him good night . |
| 19 | Myra sobbed as she told me that , although many men were attracted to her — and she to them — as soon as the relationship reached the stage of even the most innocent physical contact , such as a gentle kiss or even holding hands , something in her forced her to draw back and run away from the situation . |
| 20 | He had n't said a great deal , content to look at her as she told him all about life in the convent and of the strange foibles of some of her companions . |
| 21 | She kept up a running commentary as she chased him 50 yards across Lawrence Road before collapsing in a pool of blood . |
| 22 | But they were unable to spin out their game for long ; impatience got the better of them and they returned the puppy , which stood shivering under its mother 's tongue as she licked it clean of foreign influences . |
| 23 | Quite out of the blue her sense of the ridiculous erupted ; the parallel he 'd drawn appealed to her , and she found herself actually laughing as she handed him one of the bowls . |
| 24 | Snow was banked behind it , dredging against the bottom as she pushed it open . |
| 25 | Indubitably it was full of madmen , and women too , much as she found them fun to be with . |
| 26 | Well a as soon as she gave me this erm protective thing to wear and and then told me that I was grown up and every . |
| 27 | I do n't know what view of these events my uncles took as we woke them early and followed them around as faithfully as any spaniel — maybe that was why they often nipped off to the pub in the evenings . |
| 28 | But … but , as Mama said , as long as we kept it clean and it was only for a short time … |
| 29 | Jennifer , of Dewsbury , Yorks , said : ‘ As soon as we divorced we both realised we 'd made a mistake . ’ |
| 30 | On the other hand the material which Eliot had put into Pound 's hands turned out to be so inchoate that many readers were led to wonder how far the poem as they had it all these years was in any authentic sense Eliot 's at all . |