Example sentences of "as [pers pn] have [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would hardly have been able to get as far as she had already without a very strong image of the outlines of the world , of her own personal dream . |
| 2 | Culturally , too , there were signs that Europe was beginning to be receptive again , as she had not since the sixteenth century . |
| 3 | ‘ Christ ! ’ she said , and the next moment , forgetful of her own safety , she had Maggie in her arms , shushing and soothing as she had never in her life done before . |
| 4 | While the ambulance waited , it had to be carefully put away in the cupboard , as she had never in all her life left things draining by the sink . |
| 5 | But there was still you know a substantial It was more or less the same case as we had before in terms of the traffic relief that each afforded and the economic rates of return . |
| 6 | I mean , we 've had the facilities as we have now in the town centre I mean , it has improved this town immensely ! |
| 7 | And in such a state of war as we have now in Wales , mischances can happen all too easily . |
| 8 | I was going to Grant Development have come here er because they are interested in our views , er I think as far as the access goes I take your point that visibility is required , but I would imagine that that the highways department will have stipulated what is required , as they have indeed for the development next door , er where the hedge , the present hedge is going to be er set back , erm I I ca n't tell you whether , what stipulation has been made , perhaps these two gentlemen |
| 9 | But he has also discovered that the Gorbachev magic has not worked in Romania as it has elsewhere in Eastern Europe . |
| 10 | This would not have had the same meaning as it has today for the term park originally meant land enclosed to keep beasts for hunting or ornamental purposes . |
| 11 | The obvious reply to this argument is that we need a reason to accept a decision reached behind this veil of ignorance , and the claim that no decision would be reached behind a differently constructed veil of ignorance is not such a reason unless it has already been shown , as it has not in fact , that we are bound by the results of some veil of ignorance , whatever it may be . |
| 12 | The project , which is to create an unprecedented space for the products of Scottish artists up to the present day , needs all the friends it can get , as it has still to be sold to government and any private benefactors . |
| 13 | A suggestion that Dunne threw out caught many a reader 's fancy : anybody , he argued , could obtain the same results as he had simply by having a pad and a pencil beside the bed and writing down remembered dreams , immediately on waking up . |
| 14 | His marriage in 1832 to Hannah Abbott ( a daughter of John Abbott , a flour merchant of Plymouth ) was only the ostensible reason for the vacation of his fellowship in the same year , as he had already in effect seceded . |
| 15 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 16 | He heaved himself up , out of his day-dreaming as he had out of the bath , and took out his stamps . |