Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb base] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reservations were , however , as nothing compare with those about the proposal for an audit review panel . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I do n't feel alarmed as I know of many secret passages , but they have all become too small to use . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | An and it 's what makes me so cross as I walk past that blinking school every day and you think my kid should be over there ! |
| 6 | What I am feeling as I listen to this is a strange movement in the undergrowth immediately in front of me ; a smile spreading inside my beard … |
| 7 | And erm they 're loyal to the society because it , they know really it 's partly through them supporting the Guilds that we are able erm I do n't know whether I would get the membership there if you 've got , you see we pay a subscription to , see it costs five Pound a year at the moment to be , to be a member of the Womens ' Guild , which we , we send dues as I say to these three sections you see . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | ‘ I 've never eaten as well as I have on this trip . ’ |
| 10 | Yes but when you 've been , when you 've been in the work as I have over many years with doctors , I was a mental welfare officer so I mean I know er , you know , you can be fobbed off . |
| 11 | I 'll probably give them to my dad , as I do with most my clothes when I 've finished with them . |
| 12 | But our complicity in taking those dreadful little uppers , of which I thoroughly disapproved , as I do of all narcotic stimulants , drew us closer together , so I submitted to their influence . |
| 13 | And maybe you need to be thirtysomething yourself to feel as I do about these people . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Drawing pictures , as I do in this text , can also be helpful . |
| 16 | Am I distressing you as I talk like this ? ’ . |
| 17 | Er as I think about all of us today , it seems to me that the , that that which endures is human relationships . |
| 18 | As I think on this my anger at his death is less , though my grief can not be . |
| 19 | Every time an angler casts and curses when he loses his line , I , too , now curse as I think of some wild creature getting enmeshed in the deadly snare he has inadvertently set . |
| 20 | Erm first of all , as I grapple with this problem over the weekend , it did seem to me very difficult to make any sensible assessment of integration on a at a strategic level because so clearly it is a site specific matter . |
| 21 | Shiver as you walk through this animated museum depicting scenes from Stoker 's spine-chiller . |
| 22 | looking at the interviewer as you speak to each other ; |
| 23 | One little ‘ running yourself in ’ problem may occur as you switch to this healthier pattern of eating . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ( 7 ) Whenever you come across a mortgage or a charge put " M " prominently in the margin ; tick this as you come to any subsequent statutory receipt or other discharge . |
| 26 | However , our prayers will be with the Fellowship as you embark on this exciting period of change in the church . |
| 27 | You want to get out as soon as you get in that 's nice |
| 28 | That 's it , we need to follow a set of step lies , instructions becoming more difficult as you go on that what was intended . |
| 29 | As you go through these , try to aim for clarity and smoothness , not just speed ( and if you have a 21-fret guitar , obviously only play up as far as you can go ! ) . |
| 30 | But as you go round that bend , there 's a turning , as you go round the bend and you go down . |