Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they carry on confounding chronology in this mendacious manner , they are likely to hit 30 as I reach 60 . |
| 2 | yes , that 's right , yes or six , six , two , I do n't really care , as long as I get fourteen it does n't really bother me |
| 3 | But I know enough about myself to know that as long as I get eight hours sleep I 'm alright ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ And as I put one leg out of the door , he looked slightly taken aback , because he could see that my leg was bare . |
| 5 | I have learned to please , to gauge and sniff the air before I move off , to swing my head from side to side as I put one foot carefully in front of the other , ears and hair raised to twang on the slightest change in the atmosphere . |
| 6 | Donna 's leader on the DTS is the same as I had 5 years ago ! |
| 7 | People left smiling and as I passed one lady on her way down the hill she grinned at me and said ‘ Perfick ’ ! |
| 8 | So you did , right at the top one as I said two thousand four three four and then the closure of Coulson House in it . |
| 9 | Erm the training course er as I said two days er I 'll count it as a full training course . |
| 10 | Well , there was a porter there , called Len and he , he was eighteen and er of course you know well I I was as I said sixteen , so he was a bit older than me but he , whilst he was at Needham he said well when I 'm eighteen I 'll get my calling up papers . |
| 11 | As I went one way she must have gone the other . |
| 12 | As I went one way , and he another , I heard him say cheerfully to the gentlemen , ‘ Mason 's already left . |
| 13 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 14 | Both places had latches and as long as I got ten yards ' start on him , I could slam the door shut and slip my half clothes-peg under the latch — I always carried a half clothes-peg for the purpose — and no matter how much he blasphemed and kicked at the door he could n't get in . |
| 15 | As I read five . |
| 16 | He 's holding his hand out to me , yelling at me , but I 'm stuck there , terrified , screaming , and I do n't know what to do , ca n't think what to do , even while he 's yelling at me to help him , come out to him , get a branch , but I 'm petrified at the thought of setting foot on that white , treacherous surface and I ca n't imagine finding a branch , ca n't think what to do as I look one way towards the tall trees above the hidden gorge and the other along the shore of the loch towards the boat-house but there are no branches , there 's only snow everywhere , and then Andy stops struggling and slips under the whiteness . |
| 17 | As I poured two generous Smirnoffs on the rocks from the mini-bar , he started on his problems . |
| 18 | As I say one day it might be quiet , and the next day , something might happen . |
| 19 | Erm I have as I say one other if you like self-employed business opportunity that I have been pursuing erm which erm I shall know after Tuesday of next week . |
| 20 | Mm , that 's right , no I 'm afraid it 's er a bit of a pain , but as I say seven o'clock in the morning mind going |
| 21 | As soon as I finish five pages , the apartment starts to buzz and chatter . |
| 22 | If my final sentence reassured him in any way he gave no sign , watching dead-faced as I injected 10 cc of Prontosil . |
| 23 | This was not just a ‘ one-off ’ mistake as I have two examples , both half fare , and in case the type is too small to see , they are the two bottom examples of the single tickets illustrated . |
| 24 | As I have two young children , I fit my working time around school and sleep times so I am lucky to have a small room at home that I use as a studio . |
| 25 | But it 's getting easier for me to blend it all now ; I certainly do n't get as stuck as I did four or five months ago . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He wants me to have really short hair , just as I did 10 years ago . ’ |
| 27 | Went to look up her reading , they said had to pay I 've used three times as much gas as I did three times as much gas as I needed last time |
| 28 | No I 've nothing , any palpitations , nothing , I feel as fit as I did twenty years ago . |
| 29 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
| 30 | as I recall nineteen eighty nine |