Example sentences of "as [pron] [modal v] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I find that er I can talk to people now , we chat away as I would in a pub , or in someone 's house but then this is the bit that worries me . |
| 2 | I ran away as fast as I could along the pavement . |
| 3 | ‘ If someone came and pinched my bum on the escalator I 'd k-i-c-k him as far as I could down the escalator , ’ Topaz responded with gusto . |
| 4 | I said nothing , but turned away and walked as quickly as I could towards the stairs and down to the student canteen in the basement . |
| 5 | I then severed the last piece of shaft as close as I could to the head , and again found nothing untoward . |
| 6 | The only way I could do this was to make myself as familiar as I could to the members of the schools . |
| 7 | And I walked as normally as I could into the playground , my private pain overcome for fear of discovery . |
| 8 | I watched the distant cloud from the explosion drift away over the firth , dispersing , then I turned and ran as fast as I could for the house . |
| 9 | So just at the last moment as the ladder began to sweep that way I just pushed as er hard as I could in the air , and the wardrobe flew up into the air in that direction , the ladder flew off in that direction , I flew off in this direction |
| 10 | I will run as quickly as I can through the minutes of the last meeting just raising those things which still have to be actioned . |
| 11 | ‘ I want to get as high as I am able to , and to contribute as much as I can to the team . |
| 12 | I run fast as I can at the window , but it still wo n't break . |
| 13 | So you make er you know we 've my I would have explained as much as I can on the phone exactly how we operate . |
| 14 | MH : I get over as soon as I can in the morning and work here all day . |
| 15 | ‘ I still enjoy scoring and I 'll try to do it as much as I can from the middle . |
| 16 | ( 3 ) Swing your right hand and arm down as you would during a downswing in golf . |
| 17 | You should look on your notes as you would on a stamp collection — small , frequent additions on the right pages and plenty of empty space for more in the same category . |
| 18 | Type in text as you would on a typewriter , but at the ends of lines do not tap Enter . |
| 19 | Any other PC equipped with Ultrafax can also send and receive files , as you would with a modem , which is a bonus . |
| 20 | That 's where you actually sign over er the management of your whole portfolio to another individual , as you would with a share portfolio with a bank . |
| 21 | Be as cautious with a dog as you would with a child . |
| 22 | In fact , sweet traitor , you clung to my hand as you would to a lover . ’ |
| 23 | It 's rather like a Ford Granada ; you can buy the basic version or you can pay almost as much as you would for a Jaguar and get the Ghia version . |
| 24 | Cut out each letter of the phrase and hide them in or around the house and in other places , as you would for a scavenger hunt . |
| 25 | With the stake firmed in the hole , hold the tree up with a simple string loop , and plant it just as you would for a bush — except that , without the bud to go by , you will have to look carefully for the soil ‘ tide mark ’ where it was growing in the nursery and finish off to that height , with the standard stem about 1½–2 inches ( 4–5cm ) from the stake . |
| 26 | Clearly you would n't write in the same way for the Sun as you would for the Times or the Financial Times or the Guardian , or the Cambridge local paper . |
| 27 | ( 2 ) Swing the club back as you would in a golf swing and then start to return to an imaginary ball . |
| 28 | and that it was er er obviously going to be a cost-effective exercise to do it there and then , and er you both er canvassed as many councillors as you could at the time , all the committee Chairmen were , were involved , I do n't see that you could have done any more in the circumstances . |
| 29 | ‘ Designing Ancient Rome was in fact more difficult than the science fiction adventures , because one was recreating somewhere that actually existed , and you had to be as accurate as you could within the limits of the budget . |
| 30 | Keep the sail driving for as long as you can through the tacks . |