Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I noticed it soon as I got to there . |
| 2 | As I alluded to earlier on , voltage gated channels have been cloned and sequenced and they show first of all homology between all three classes , sodium , er calcium and potassium . |
| 3 | But having got my way over that , it meant I could n't protest as I wanted to about Frome being put in charge . |
| 4 | The colour you are assigned arises from your position in the draw , but this may change from round to round , so do n't go to the same position as you went to previously . |
| 5 | As soon as you get to really like someone , they go off and leave you . |
| 6 | A wave of hot colour swept over her as she wriggled to somehow attach the bedspread around her without letting it slip and giving this mocking character another full frontal . |
| 7 | I walked in a daze trying to keep warm as strange fantasies plagued my mind : Selkirk chanting in a field of white roses all stained by blood ; my mother crouching on a step as she used to when I would play and run to her — but , when I drew closer , she was an old cripple , eyes open , face frozen blue . |
| 8 | Then she sighed as she turned to where Matt 's vehicle stood waiting . |
| 9 | May these , as we go to still higher energies , in turn be found to be made from still smaller particles ? |
| 10 | As we sit to yet another cup of greasy coffee in a steamed-up café I suggest it 's time we got out of all this . |
| 11 | And I hope they have as much fun as we used to when we were younger . ’ |
| 12 | Lucy stood watching as they walked to where his minibus stood parked . |
| 13 | Moreover , what this episode testifies to is a resurgence of the power of the southern Saxons as they sought to further their own ascendancy in the south-east , the foundation of which had been laid by Wulfhere , and it seems likely that Eadric was established as king in Kent as a southern Saxon satellite . |
| 14 | They had both slowly turned their heads , which were now very close as they stared to where a grassy bank rose to a narrow stretch of woodland that bordered the house gardens . |
| 15 | Knowledge , teaching and learning are only justified in so far as they contribute to that much more ambitious end . |
| 16 | Any approach to these problems , particularly as they apply to very young children , must start from an understanding of the child 's cognitive and social predispositions as a computer user . |
| 17 | North London 's status is now under threat after failing to travel to Leicester , as they have to reapply for League membership after finishing in the bottom four places of the division . |
| 18 | We passed the Gordonstoun yachts , Pinta and Soldian , regular visitors to Stornoway , and gave them a cheery wave as they beat to windward towards Lismore Island . |
| 19 | The study aims to explore the nature and patterning of the variation in foreign language achievement in secondary schools as it relates to earlier first language development . |
| 20 | The book starts with the personal , and then shifts as it progresses to more interpersonal and organizational perspectives . |
| 21 | Higher than its current rate of 1.8m ( 6.2% ) , but probably not as high as it had to in the mid-1980s . |
| 22 | Former Jazz Warriors and Courtney Pine band member , Robinson is also active in jazz-funk circles but this album nevertheless owes as much to jazz history as it does to today 's pop scene . |
| 23 | Thatcher 's legacy has forced the poverty lobby onto the defensive as it fights to simply to maintain child benefit , to restore benefits to 16- and 17-year olds , or to ensure that 18- to 24-year-olds receive the same rate of income support as over 25-year-olds . |
| 24 | For the smaller aquarium the Lubbock 's Fairy Wrasse Cirrhilabrus lubbocki is eminently suitable , as it grows to only about 7cm . |
| 25 | The first stanza of the poem concentrates on a small incident and is specific about the power of the sun to wake up the dead soldier as it used to when he slept in a field . |
| 26 | Investment in some technology can be justified as it leads to more efficient billing . |
| 27 | He said , just as he had to both his other passengers : " Home for Christmas , eh ducks ? |
| 28 | Do n't touch me ! ’ she added as he began to carefully straighten her leg and probe the flesh at the top of her boot . |
| 29 | For some time the only sound in the room was that of her choking sobs and his comforting murmur as he continued to tenderly stroke her hair . |
| 30 | Laura glanced through her eyelashes at the thick dark hair curling over the edge of his collar , the relaxed set of his broad-shouldered figure as he continued to idly watch the passing scenery , while he talked so calmly and dismissively about a marriage which , it was quite clear , had never been of any major importance in his life . |