Example sentences of "as [pron] [be] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and again , you 'll see on one of the 's photographs I 've got , it shows , just to the right hand side as you 're looking at the front of the main archway , erm it had the legend , Railway , parcels receiving office . |
| 2 | If you stepped out of line , then look out , but you quickly learned to do as you were told at the greatest possible speed . |
| 3 | A female dealer at Tudorbury Securities felt the hand of chief executive Roderick Alexander Innes Hamilton , affectionately known as RAI , sidling over her bottom as she was queuing at the SEAQ screen . |
| 4 | If the Nuffield becomes a self-governing er trust , this Health Authority will want to continue to buy er the same level of , of service for Oxfordshire 's population er as we 're buying at the moment . |
| 5 | We need twice as much money as we 're getting at the moment . |
| 6 | As we 're looking at the Essex News , there 's the result of the quiz there . |
| 7 | The greatest pity was that the top was clear enough for a view and as we were perched at the broad gable end of the mountain we could see some fabulous sights . |
| 8 | But spending that hundred thousand pounds as we were told at the time , would only part solve the problem . |
| 9 | As time goes by , and more machines are added to the scale , you 'll have a month by month reference for PC performance — and as performance levels creep ever higher ( as they are doing at the moment ) we 'll extend the scale , and pick up new reference points . |
| 10 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 11 | In the United States , the Library of Congress has been classifying and cataloguing audio-visual materials for many years , so long as they were deposited at the Library for copyright purposes . |
| 12 | As they were looking at the seed packets together , the robin hopped on to a branch near them . |
| 13 | The idea that there is some correct and timeless view , against which historical controversies can be judged , can prove an insensitive guide to the issues as they were perceived at the time . |
| 14 | She did mind , though , and , as they were met at the emergency entrance with a wheeled stretcher-bed for Faye and a paged message for Tom summoning him to the renal unit to attend urgently to another patient , her concern for Faye 's condition battled for priority in her thoughts with painful images of Marise Wyspianski glowing in the magic aura of Tom 's kiss , and of Tom himself , at the wheel of the Mercedes just moments ago , staring so grimly into the Christmas Eve traffic . |
| 15 | As they were waiting at the bus stop in the main square of Fiesole , about five minutes ' walk from the house , she said carefully : |
| 16 | Oh yes , as they were filming at the Lyceum last week they were , it were a good programme I can tell you |
| 17 | Erm whilst I 've not been able to produce an audited er set of accounts I do have er a set of figures for you erm and as you said at the the beginning of your opening er speech Mr Chairman that erm we had one or two losses during the year , those er in actual fact did n't erm affect us in thi this particular financial year as they were aimed at the September December period , but therefore they will be reflected in next year 's figures not or in the current year 's figures or the next annual general meeting 's figures . |
| 18 | European Qualifying School which is also out-of-bounds to South Africans as it is played at the La Manga Club . |
| 19 | But much food aid is stolen as it is unloaded at the ports ; and army-escorted convoys manage to lose up to a third of their cargoes on the way . |
| 20 | As Stevie and Susan learn to live with the ups and downs of life in London , ‘ Riff-Raff ’ , directed by Ken Loach ( he of ‘ Hidden Agenda ’ ) builds a portrait — sometimes gritty , often funny — of life as it is lived at the margins . |
| 21 | ‘ I think the sheer professionalism of the job as it 's done at the moment is hard to beat . |
| 22 | We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . |
| 23 | Ruotolo apparently submitted , but then published a pamphlet attacking current exegesis , especially as it was taught at the Biblicum . |
| 24 | As soon as he was seated at the table she poured and handed wine , and he marked the breadth and strength of the shapely hand that offered the cup , and realised suddenly , noting the blue cloth sleeve of her gown , that she had already shed her mourning . |
| 25 | Above the arch of its clock tower is an eroded stone said to be miraculously imprinted with the features of Patrick Hamilton as he was burnt at the stake before it in 1528 . |