Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb base] [prep] [adj] " 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 | But they did that to me when I was their age and now as soon as I get to fourteen when when you can , when you can , when you could do that And now today it 's not fair . |
| 4 | The hall and the gallery and the enormous stained glass windows which faced the door as you came in , and the three reception rooms were ours , and as I suffer from terrible claustrophobia , I thought it was a wonderful place to live although David , who I am sure does n't suffer from claustrophobia as badly as I do , being British and like most British people , would be content to live in smaller environments . |
| 5 | I do n't feel alarmed as I know of many secret passages , but they have all become too small to use . |
| 6 | As I know from personal experience one Bulgarian or Yugoslavian school is very much like its neighbour . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , as I know from personal experience it 's almost impossible to get to the rear of this house from the front when the door at the end of the passageway between the garage and the house wall is locked . |
| 8 | But I think it 's fair to say that the changes in the n nine , early nineteen eighties particularly those which gave the unions a predominant position in choosing the leader , were not of the unions ' making , certainly not of the G M B's making , as I know from personal experience at the time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | I am writing as I disagree with various comments made in an article entitled A Pair of Glasses … by Linda Lewis , as I feel that it gave Indian Glassfish a very negative press . |
| 13 | Early recognition as I say of mental illness in an employee and early treatment is better for both the company and the employee . |
| 14 | as I say of different people |
| 15 | One as I say for seventy crackers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | Er so , that task , much of it under legislation , is carried out by fire officers and much of it as I say by good will and erm er advice to householders and bodies and erm big concerns and so on . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | I wonder if I will get away with things as easily as I have on other serious falls and I wonder what it will feel like at the bottom . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've never eaten as well as I have on this trip . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I do not feel competitive with Pamela as I do with other women , because Pam , in her unwitting splendour , is not pretty as other women are . |
| 24 | I 'll probably give them to my dad , as I do with most my clothes when I 've finished with them . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And maybe you need to be thirtysomething yourself to feel as I do about these people . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Drawing pictures , as I do in this text , can also be helpful . |
| 29 | Am I distressing you as I talk like this ? ’ . |
| 30 | Er as I think about all of us today , it seems to me that the , that that which endures is human relationships . |