Example sentences of "but as [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as we contemplate these bitter internecine struggles we should not be too unsympathetic or complacent . |
| 2 | Most of us would like to think of growing old gracefully , enjoying the years of retirement , surrounded by family and friends … but as we get older , it becomes more and more difficult to get about and meet others . |
| 3 | But as we got older it got harder and harder to talk to him ; he seemed to withdraw . |
| 4 | but as we stress this is a subsidiary argument that we point |
| 5 | This can be a struggle and it may take a while , but as we see all the time among those around us , identity can be achieved , and with tremendous satisfaction and eventual rewards . |
| 6 | You should have them in your diaries but as we have such a full complement this evening , can I just draw those attention er to your attention . |
| 7 | Even these courses at Woolley Hall he was doing under great difficulties — he was sometimes terribly handicapped for money , but as they became successful , I think things eased for him . |
| 8 | But as they get older they get bigger and shinier . |
| 9 | but as they got muddier it worsened . |
| 10 | In an experiment , Hangartner placed two trails in parallel ; to begin with they were of equal concentration , but as they proceeded one of the trails became progressively weaker . |
| 11 | But as they grew older it no longer seemed necessary to take them with her , and one Wednesday morning Betty arrived on her own . |
| 12 | Their relationships with each other and with later hominoids is still uncertain , but as they represent different evolutionary trends I am going to distinguish them taxonomically at the level of tribe , where they have been distinguished at generic level before . |
| 13 | I had no intention just then of attempting such a thing , but as I lay awake that night I realised that if it had n't been for Lili I might have felt it necessary to attempt to describe to someone , anyone , what I knew of God and what he had asked of me . |
| 14 | Living in San'a , I was initially engrossed in the visual aspects of the architecture , but as I became involved with the Yemeni families , I started to record as accurately as possible all aspects of the traditional San'a culture that was rapidly being swallowed up by Western influence . |
| 15 | But as I get older patience , a commodity not particularly noticeable in the past , has gradually appeared in my personality , like a sandbank silted into place by too many frothing tides . |
| 16 | Dear old Joe seemed just the same , but as I got better , he began to remember I was a gentleman , and call me sir again , and when I got up one morning , I discovered he had gone . |
| 17 | ‘ I loved dancing but as I got older I loved teaching the little ones more , ’ says Susan , a nursery nurse at Kenton Bar Primary School in Newcastle . |
| 18 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 19 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |
| 20 | A note from Bartram in 1745 seems to imply a slight difference of opinion as his account of some American pines had been questioned : ‘ But as I have great opinion of Miller 's learning and judgement , I am engaged in duty and friendship to inform him the best I can . ’ |
| 21 | but as I say that 's , that 's the only thing , but then on the other hand they ca n't fall out with me will they ? |
| 22 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 23 | But as I say some of it may not er no , be relevant to yourself . |
| 24 | Mm , that 's right , no I 'm afraid it 's er a bit of a pain , but as I say seven o'clock in the morning mind going |
| 25 | She had once thought of herself as unique , had been encouraged ( in theory at least ) by her education and by her reading to believe in the individual self , the individual soul , but as she grew older she increasingly questioned these concepts : seeing people perhaps more as flickering impermanent points of light irradiating stretches , intersections , threads , of a vast web , a vast network , which was humanity itself : a web of which much remained dark , apparently but not necessarily unpeopled : peopled by the dark , the unlit , the dim spirits , as yet unknown , the past and the future , the dead , the unborn : and herself , and Brian , and Liz , and Charles , and Esther , and Teddy Lazenby , and Otto and Caroline Werner , and all the rest of them at that bright party , and in these discreet anonymous dark curtained avenues and crescents were but chance and fitful illuminations , chance meetings , chance and unchosen representatives of the thing itself . |
| 26 | She urged an inquiry , but as she explained some months later , ‘ This was brusquely and rudely refused by Mr. Merlyn Rees , the then Secretary of State , on the grounds that my allegations were untrue . ’ |
| 27 | At first you will only be able to crouch down on the board , but as you get used to pulling down on the booms to pull yourself up again , you will be able to get lower . |
| 28 | But as you get older that 's not so easy is it ? |
| 29 | But as he got older this , that was in the family though , my sister was like that , Olga , the one what used to be with us . |
| 30 | But as he becomes more and m ore content with his new life , he becomes embarrassed of his family and background . |