Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For you sit here , thousands of miles away from Palestine , a land which most of you will never see , and yet which you will certainly pay for-with your money , yes , and some of you with your blood and sweat — you sit here and you listen to me as I tell you about this impossible , this ridiculous dream , and it does n't occur to you that we are all mad , you and I and all our people ? ’
2 It must have taken Summerchild at least an extra minute in each direction ; as I recall it from those evenings fifteen years ago , he walked at a much more reflective pace , as if slowed by some inner weight .
3 It ran : ‘ Well , frankly , the problem as I see it at this moment in time is whether I should just lie down under all this hassle …
4 It ran : ‘ Well , frankly , the problem as I see it at this moment in time is whether I should just lie down under all this hassle …
5 CHARLES : Well , frankly , the problem as I see it At this moment in time is whether I Should just lie down under all this hassle And let them walk all over me , Or , whether I should just say : ‘ OK , I get the message ’ , and do myself in .
6 The task of the theist , as I see it in this book , is to define what he or she means by the word ‘ God ’ , and to give some evidence for believing that this Deity exists .
7 The town was much as I remembered it in 1919 .
8 My subterfuge was a visit to the Rotary — but the only rotary aspect of that day was the circle my buttocks described as I thrust you to orgiastic multiplicities .
9 You know the sort of thing I mean : ‘ For as much as ye do it unto one of these my children — ’
10 What are the problems as you see them in this neighbourhood ?
11 But as you say you at that point you do have to stop .
12 Her hands rested on it as she surveyed me with calm enquiry .
13 Whichever way her life was goin' she would never have it soft again , not as she saw it at this present moment .
14 Her voice and the rattle of pots faded away into the house , and he heard , close to , Annie 's uncontrolled chortle as she approached him with some wicked intent .
15 Leith yelled , and as fury which she just could not contain spiralled out of control , her right hand arced through the air , and even as she hit him with all her strength , she was still yelling , ‘ Since it seems to be taking so long to sink in , you can bank on it — whoever pays my mortgage , you 're far , far at the back of the queue ! ’
16 Without the oxygen produced from water by green plants , life as we know it on this planet would be impossible .
17 The fact that this is indeed found to be the case powerfully corroborates the theory of development being advanced in these pages and demonstrates that the apparent absence of the latency phenomenon as we know it among primitive people like the Australian aborigines is no proof of the falsity of the idea of latency as such .
18 The recognition that all men are equal in the sight of God is fundamental to liberty as we know it in modern Western societies .
19 All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time .
20 So the council were faced were having to take a legal action because there was a whole claims that because the land was so old , nobody knew who technically owned it and it was n't registered as we owning it until nineteen sixty six , there was legal disputes about that .
21 We have got , each one of us , to take our place as we find it in this world and make the best of it , and pull together with the others around us …
22 Blue here corresponds to 1.6 mm , and shows the cloud tops much as we see them at optical wavelengths .
23 I asked if people like Shitwell , as we called him among other things , would shove me around after the revolution ; whether there 'd be theatre directors at all or whether we 'd all get a turn at telling the others where to stand and what to wear .
24 He turned to face her then , his eyes intent as they met hers for one long minute , and she had the strangest feeling that he was trying to look inside her soul .
25 The salmon can recognise this cocktail first in a generalised way in the brackish water of an estuary and then with increasing precision as they follow it into smaller and smaller tributaries until at last they reach the shallows where it exactly matches the prescription demanded by their nostrils .
26 Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value .
27 For some philosophers of religion , it is this attitude towards morality , inbuilt as they see it into human beings , that makes theism necessary .
28 And erm that 's when you er when you had your a a a new new rig out as they called it in those days , they called it a rig out , new rig out in those days .
29 Whilst other sections of the population are clearly severely affected by these government policies , disabled people experience these particular ‘ reforms ’ as an attack on their human right not to be incarcerated without trial and conviction , in so far as it renders it in some cases impossible to live outside institutions .
30 In the 1960s , the Soviet Union rapidly discovered that its connection with Cuba led to the complication and distortion of its relations with other Latin American nations at the same time as it presented them with new opportunities in the region .
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