Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , I thought as I waited in thick over-coated ranks for the Germans to come and count us , it 'll all be over by this time tomorrow . |
| 2 | As I left in early afternoon to catch the London train , I reflected that here was as large number of small businessmen who were likely to see some radical changes in the way they operated . |
| 3 | The opening games did not go quite as I expected in that I was surprised to see Wales beat Ireland . |
| 4 | Now , as I said in one of the quotes that we were talking about , a psychological explanation does not need to rest on physiological causes . |
| 5 | As I said in earlier chapters , though , when you live alone two things are very important — firstly that you love and take care of yourself , and secondly , that you give yourself a treat now and then . |
| 6 | he must have felt as I felt in that empty place . |
| 7 | ‘ I played nearly as many games in a week for Leicester as I did in six years for Leeds , ’ he says . |
| 8 | Am I just once again to write , as I did in 1916 , a book of amiable daydreams , which everyone will ignore ? |
| 9 | The logical extension of this approach is to propose ( as I did in 1987 ) that medieval singers regarded an a cappella performance as ideal for their most serious and worthwhile songs the High Style lyrics of the troubadours and trouvères . |
| 10 | ‘ The truth is I knew throughout the summer that my game was not as sharp and I was not enjoying myself on the course as I did in 1991 . |
| 11 | When I fight I go on to the end , as I did in 1926 . ’ |
| 12 | I think it is best to suck it off with one of those tiny battery-powered vacuum cleaners you can get for about a tenner these days , as I did in this case . |
| 13 | I discovered soon after my illness the same energies walking beneath the cliffs of Lyme Regis , in the shadow of Mary Annan and the ichthyosauruses as I do in this hamlet . |
| 14 | Drawing pictures , as I do in this text , can also be helpful . |
| 15 | Their reward could be to find ( as I found in another country ) that chemistry is the most popular subject in the curriculum . |
| 16 | That 's the brain , that 's a stroke , the brain is a very sensitive part of the body , and as you know in this very topic of debate , if the brain do n't get enough blood , er , for three minutes , you 've got permanent brain damage and the only occupation that 's suitable is that of a politician . |
| 17 | The Chancellor yesterday promised measures which he said would amount to the most fundamental reform of income tax administration since the introduction of Pay As You Earn in 1944 . |
| 18 | You want to get out as soon as you get in that 's nice |
| 19 | Well as you heard in that report , there 's has been strong criticism of the inquest system , which has led to deaths being investigated thouands of miles from where they happened . |
| 20 | Mrs Clinton tells Vanity Fair , apparently without weighing the truth of the charges against Mr Bush : ‘ What Bill does n't understand is you 've got ta do the same thing in response as you do in negative advertising . ’ |
| 21 | If you eventually failed to agree at that level , then you would have to register failure to agree as you did in all other cases you know , leading up to that stage . |
| 22 | erm it may be that erm because of my generation , but you do n't get the same sort of personalities nowadays as you did in those days , erm Mr for instance he was , he was a most benign sort of erm fellow of what one would describe as a real gentleman mm , mind you he used to have his paddies at times but |
| 23 | You can buy what you want there , as long as you pay in good gold . |
| 24 | ‘ My Lord , As you mentioned in one of your late letters that Captn . |
| 25 | It is always running in the background as you work in other applications , ready to switch between applications or control a multitasking session . |
| 26 | In her portrait of Medea — or Medee as she becomes in this staging of the original French version — this is what she uses consistently . |
| 27 | In her portrait of Medea — or Medee as she becomes in this staging of the original French version — this is what she uses consistently . |
| 28 | But as she forecast in recent months ( The Art Newspaper No.19 , June 1992 , p.3 ) , Ms Radice believes that sexual content is grounds for a grant 's denial . |
| 29 | Later as she lay in that bed , after she had eaten a meal in a small cheap cafe in New Oxford Street , she squirmed between sheets of a kind she had never seen before , purple knitted nylon . |
| 30 | Frankie watched her now with a mixture of awe and delight as she pranced in little pirouettes around the kitchen . |