Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One feels that two hours spent in one or other of the jammed little rooms — there are four as far as I remember at this instance , two down , one up , and one in the cellar — will be rewarding , refreshing , and never questioned by the owners . |
| 2 | As I looked at this mounting pile of equipment I thought that there was no way this was going to fit into the spare bedroom . |
| 3 | Within days it was obvious that the extent of the dissolution was every bit as great as I had at first suspected . |
| 4 | Or was the fact of their friendship with Gideon just an unwelcome coincidence , as I had at first supposed . |
| 5 | The earth never quite moved for me in the Dante Sonata as I thought at one stage it might . |
| 6 | As I sit at this word processor , the chips of which may have been assembled by a young woman in the Philippines for a pittance a day and for such long hours that her eyes will be damaged in a tax haven created specially for foreign companies , I am acutely aware of the link between the health of the people of the Philippines and my life here in Britain . |
| 7 | Well but I mean that 's an example and as I say at this end where you 've no arousal you 're either asleep or dead , there 's no sort of performance performance of any sort and we talk about having those butterflies in the stomach do n't we ? |
| 8 | ‘ If they 're easy trousers , I can do maybe 30 pairs a day , as long as I start at eight in the morning and finish at eight at night . |
| 9 | I never wanted my Mum so much in my life as I did at that moment . |
| 10 | As I discuss at greater length in Chapter 10 , your first visits should just be a matter of getting to know the site , by wandering around . |
| 11 | As a publish writer yourself I told her I 've been published articles you will understand the need for market targeting and as you mention at twenty thousand words is not full-length , though this could be if was aimed at children . |
| 12 | And as you say at that stage it really was just a matter of erm every man for himself really . |
| 13 | At this Faye sat up , flinging aside covers , in one movement , like a swimmer surfacing , and she glared at Alice as she had at poor Monica . |
| 14 | He swigged his champagne with such abandon that Ruth knew he had swallowed Maria Luisa 's explanation of their affair with the same ease as she had at first . |
| 15 | As far as I can read her argument , it is precisely this which allows recognition of it to model our human position as suspended between , as she says at another point , unconditioned actor … and conditioned agent . " |
| 16 | My mother sighed as she peered at those crowding white sails and topgallants : ‘ If only he were here to see that ! ’ |
| 17 | She heard the shaken sigh that was torn from him as he brought her body up against the length of his , and the urge to go on fighting him faded as she grasped at fresh knowledge , accepting the fact that this was entirely mutual . |
| 18 | I expect he hoped to have as little as possible to do with her , but when she made a dead set at him , as she did at all young married men , that was no longer possible . |
| 19 | As we glanced at each other , we shuddered with apprehension . |
| 20 | But as we looked at each other I had a strange sensation . |
| 21 | As we saw at Old Trafford , there were quite a number who learned less than nothing and Smith was at the forefront of this group . |
| 22 | Well I think we can arrange to pick you up as we go at that time , you 'll of eh , because I know that bus passes do n't cover that . |
| 23 | There was something like an appeal in his eyes as we gazed at each other . |
| 24 | He says having been there , the crash is n't over such a wide area as we thought at first . |
| 25 | Thank you very much for that question , I think it is an important one , because we looked at our international work , as we did at all our work , over the period that we were considering reorganisation . |
| 26 | I 'm at the same hotel as we stayed at last time-but it 's not the same without you and Rosie . |
| 27 | I think maybe we should take as we look at all the procedures where we have suggested be draft . |
| 28 | As we look at these memories , it is clear that the relationship depends both on the opportunity to know each other and also on the degree of compatibility between grandparent and child . |
| 29 | In all that follows , as we look at this third priority for new churches , we need to remember that at root we need to fall in love with Jesus . |
| 30 | If I 'm to drive you home afterwards we 'll have to leave as soon as we arrive at this rate . ’ |