Example sentences of "as [pron] have [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 2 | This steered them away , as I had meant it to , and they talked for a while longer , then fell silent , enjoying the warmth and the view . |
| 3 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 4 | And then she 's written nearly as much in red ink on the back as I 've written it on black ink on |
| 5 | If I go , If I could just to , to bring go , right back to a point you made much earlier coming off is exactly as you 've described it for most people |
| 6 | So you do n't finish up with a battery that as soon as you 've used it for about a minute , that 's it ca n't get any more |
| 7 | Christine paused most meaningfully … ‘ she said as you had given it to her , sir . |
| 8 | Are you saying that greenfield development on the edge of York would be in the greenbelt as you have defined it in the deposited local plan . |
| 9 | And I think in the context of what P P G twelve says , it is right for this examination , to consider the proposal as you have presented it to us . |
| 10 | She was seized with a desire to feel his hand on her breast again , as she had felt it for a fleeting second months ago . |
| 11 | The ‘ magic ’ as she had called it in those exciting days when it had all begun , had become a curse . |
| 12 | ‘ Point Counter Point — Contrepoint as we had to call it in our rigid language — for the third time I might add . ’ |
| 13 | This song appealed especially , as we had filched it from the Germans . |
| 14 | This new order accords with the logic of Marx 's thinking , as we have seen it in all the works we have discussed so far . |
| 15 | A second limitation of the Keynesian model as we have outlined it in this chapter is that it fails to take adequately into account the problem of inflation . |
| 16 | As we have portrayed it in Figure 1.1 , the whole process of the crisis on this account seems very mechanistic ( or positivistic : see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 17 | In ballet , the Mariinsky ( or the Kirov , as we have known it since 1935 ) has an almost unassailable reputation , with the choreography of Marius Petipa as one of its foundations — as we saw in the pas de deux from Le Corsaire , danced brilliantly and poetically by Elvira Tarasova and Igor Zelensky , and in Diana and Actaeon , which highlighted the virile athleticism of Farukh Ruzimatov . |
| 18 | To take one example , how will workers respond to the realization that the rate of inflation is not zero , as they had expected it to be , but is in fact positive ? |
| 19 | And she had a way of conjuring up places , in terms of their dimensions , that led those same children to explore their houses and fields blindfold ; the dark world that they discovered with their fingertips was new to them — but not frightening as they had supposed it to be . |
| 20 | The first great movement of the Holy Spirit was felt at a meeting held in Mr John Montgomery 's field in Edenderry where a young man was describing the work of God as he had seen it in Ballymena . |
| 21 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 22 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 23 | Would such a person , watching Peter now , reading the prayers of Rite B in his level , pleasant voice , notice that resentment lay , like his blood , just under his skin , because the life he had chosen had not turned out as he had expected it to ? |
| 24 | It was unoccupied , as he had expected it to be . |
| 25 | The wedding-dress was in the faded green trunk , just as he 'd imagined it in the night . |
| 26 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 27 | Hilton sums up the whole process as he has defined it in Book One through the two images of sin and Christ with a quotation from Galatians 4:19 : Scale 1 , then , maps the whole area of the contemplative life and shows it may be accessed through inner participation in the truth revealed at the Incarnation : Most of the book , however , is occupied with the effort to clarify the process by which the reformation to the likeness of Jesus in his manhood may be begun , the experience of this likeness in the reformed " " of the soul and how it leads to contemplation of the Godhead is not explored in any fullness although it is present as a stated goal . |