Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as someone gives you ten to the minus eight , you can say , Well if I want to convert that into real money , |
| 2 | They are still more puzzled as I wish them good evening and they recognise my Scots accent , As I quickly follow behind the French Commandos I hear one Canadian say to the other . |
| 3 | I remember it as I saw it one evening , lit by the setting sun against a background of threatening clouds . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | As I expected it all happened halfway along . |
| 6 | Because as I ask him some question about women , wine or wit Dudley Moore is busy chewing his nails until they might well bleed , it does n't seem too rude to mention the ends of his fingertips . |
| 7 | As I told you that was all a long time ago . |
| 8 | As I told you all |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Vargas could drop the lot of us , as I told you This would be exactly what British Intelligence wanted . |
| 11 | ‘ As I told you last night , she made all the arrangements herself . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ As I told you last night , this is the only time I 've ever been to Venice . ’ |
| 13 | Your jewels Eachuinn Odhar gave to me , to return to you or not as I judged you innocent or guilty . |
| 14 | But as I studied him any aggressive feelings I may have harboured evaporated quickly . |
| 15 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
| 16 | On Tuesday the eighth of February as I understand it that meeting then will report to a Council meeting of the Council , so I would not wish to put forward the suggested resolutions that are on the order paper , er I think I would want to suggest to you ladies and gentlemen for decisions today to whether you wish or not and then I would suggest that the appropriate decision is to await the of the City additional Council and therefore bring this matter forward to our Committee on March the twenty ninth . |
| 17 | And so as I understand it that 's the situation |
| 18 | Er in my opinion at this particular time we must bear in mind the financial constraints that we work under and er would the board agree with me that erm survival comes first yes but it 's obvious that the programme that we 've er had put forward is a good compromise between preferred in the arts , maintaining the theatre as a viable proposition and er entertaining the people of this particular part of the world because as I understand it this theatre was not just the artist also an entertainment centre and it 's in this area that er it 's quite obvious when you look into the figures on this area the popular area that the majority income comes so you 'll have to make a compromise and I will congratulate the board on what I think is pretty reasonable compromise so it 's quite obvious in the programme . |
| 19 | Chairman , erm , as I understand it this afternoon is , is a free vote and I , for that reason end there , I hope that persuade any waverers er one way , erm , at the moment we 've got agreements with tenants and it 's up to them to decide what to do with their land . |
| 20 | As I promised you last week , this is going to be a second look at that very British of institutions , the Magistrates ' Court . |
| 21 | I sincerely hope that it has been picked up by accident and that I will be re-united with it soon , as I find it hard to believe that such an incident could lead to its deliberate theft . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But , as you know me all , a plain blunt man , |
| 24 | you know , as you get them half baskets that fit on a wall |
| 25 | There 's nothing to them , really , as long as you let them alone by night . |
| 26 | Bring everything to the small salon as soon as you have it ready . |
| 27 | It almost broke her heart when she saw that darting look of imitation cross his face as she brought him bad news . |
| 28 | No fool , Celia remembered thinking , as she drove them both back to the home she was soon to vacate . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ And I 've missed you as well , ’ she laughed , as she hugged them both . |