Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm we I mean we , we , we 've looked at the , the peasant tenant relationship erm and my , my opinion is that basically you know it was n't quite as bad as everyone 's made out erm but al okay we 're saying that warlords were , were very imperialistic and they were a huge fact to be considered but in Hunan and within the south erm eastern region say |
| 2 | Works like the transcriptions of Berlioz 's Fantastic Symphony , and the opera excerpts , Hexameron , the Ballades , Legends , Polonaises , and then there are those colossal religious pieces , some well known , others complete rarities ; all extend our appreciation and knowledge as no-one has done previously for Liszt 's piano music . |
| 3 | ‘ The regiment saw an exhibition of my work and they commissioned it — which was very brave of them , in a way , as I 'd done very little before that . ’ |
| 4 | It 's too bad , just as I 'd plucked up … . ’ |
| 5 | As soon as I 'd woken up , I started to get strange pains in my stomach . |
| 6 | He adds sadly : ‘ It 's impossible for me to go on a quiet date as I get recognised everywhere and asked for autographs . ’ |
| 7 | As I continued to eat ecstatically , feeling the strength ebbing back , he glanced uneasily into the pen . |
| 8 | Looking the picture of misery and helplessness , he snatched a few words with me as I waited to go in . |
| 9 | ‘ Please send me by return the length of the holes at St Andrews as I intend to lay out a course on the common next weekend , ’ wrote another . |
| 10 | as I come flying humbly on behind ? |
| 11 | White thistle heads floated up my nose as I struggled to keep up with Duncan , his suspension forks making light work of the ruts and bumps on the ground . |
| 12 | This made me lose track of his subsequent drift as I struggled to imagine how chess-playing came to have such a pejorative connotation for him . |
| 13 | ‘ Have been reading ’ , I realized even as I struggled to find somewhere to stand the strawboard in the darkness , makes a somewhat smaller claim than ‘ have read ’ , and I scarcely expect that my ‘ books ’ , to anyone outside the very restricted world of philosophical studies , are going to include the two on Spinoza ; all of which suggests a second-hand and partial acquaintance with my only other work , Natural Man . |
| 14 | Nor did lie think this a bad thing since , as I had emphasised before , he hail little love for Coalitions . |
| 15 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 16 | Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river . |
| 17 | This was a real blow to me , as I had done well in form 5a at school and had to watch my luckier contemporaries going into the sixth form for another year with the sure prospect of getting to teacher training college , or the luckiest of them all , to university . |
| 18 | Just as I had done before , I stumped around Clonmacnoise , surveying each ruined building or ancient cross as I came to it . |
| 19 | So I went by coach to the old town , as I had done so many times before , and walked to the forge . |
| 20 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 21 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 22 | As I had to go back to my office after a big luncheon party , I arrived half way through the collection . |
| 23 | It had been advised by my doctor that a year 's holiday in another land would build me up , as I had grown too quickly and had , as the phrase goes , " overgrown my strength " . |
| 24 | You 'll have to fit yourself into other surroundings , as I had to do so often . ’ |
| 25 | This was a joy for me as I had puzzled often on the jumble of tops visible from the A82 and in the mass of high peaks this area contains . |
| 26 | I started searching around the shower area as I had planned earlier and immediately heard a signal indicating a quarter-sized coin , 3in down . |
| 27 | I visited them all , working through the morning , planting the dead wasp in its paper coffin not between two of the more important Poles , as I had intended originally , but under the path , just on the island side of the bridge . |
| 28 | My father had often urged me to try some of his marijuana , but I had never accepted , just as I had refused even to look at the cocaine that he kept in his dressing room . |
| 29 | We were a one-parent family , and as I had to work full-time , I felt that a dog would only add to my problems . |
| 30 | This year I could only stay a very short time , as I had to get out to Cliveden for a charity ball the same evening . |