Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] in [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it is best to suck it off with one of those tiny battery-powered vacuum cleaners you can get for about a tenner these days , as I did in this case . |
| 2 | Their reward could be to find ( as I found in another country ) that chemistry is the most popular subject in the curriculum . |
| 3 | Well as you heard in that report , there 's has been strong criticism of the inquest system , which has led to deaths being investigated thouands of miles from where they happened . |
| 4 | Later as she lay in that bed , after she had eaten a meal in a small cheap cafe in New Oxford Street , she squirmed between sheets of a kind she had never seen before , purple knitted nylon . |
| 5 | As she moved in that direction , she glanced into the kitchen and caught sight of the clock . |
| 6 | As we saw in this chapter , more recently it has been found that this account of processing can not be correct for at least three reasons : ( a ) there is evidence that syntactic and semantic processing is not delayed until the end of the clause ; ( b ) there is evidence that information about the specific wording is retained after the end of a clause if that clause contains nonspecific words which subsequent clauses will disambiguate ; ( c ) specific wording will also be retained if it has pragmatic significance . |
| 7 | As we reported in this space in January , World Cup broadcast managers TSL did the United States ' game a disservice by making a deal with a network which showed the World Cup final almost four months after it was played . |
| 8 | Keith Richardson says it was an excellent Gloucester performance and with Wales beating England it just goes to show that the formbook can be beaten and Gloucester could well beat Bath on Saturday if they run and tackle as hard as they did in this game . |
| 9 | As he said in that advert , she 's pancake ! |
| 10 | Then would come the journey to Paris , after which ( as he noted in another connection in the same letter ) " it will be all right in this academic career " . |
| 11 | Ludens was glad he had been to see Franca and felt sure , as he sat in another taxi bound for Victoria , that she had understood why , and in what frame of mind , he had come . |
| 12 | Just as the events themselves can be known but not the experiences which they provoked , so we can not hope to understand Eliot as he knelt in that chapel or in the presence of his God . |