Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I wrote on this page recently , opera is barely a living art form any longer . |
| 2 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 3 | ‘ I threw them all away a couple of weeks ago as soon as I came across that letter from Parkin , ’ Lancaster murmured . |
| 4 | I never wanted my Mum so much in my life as I did at that moment . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Their reward could be to find ( as I found in another country ) that chemistry is the most popular subject in the curriculum . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As she advanced into this room full of teenagers , pretending not to smell the rich aroma of Acapulco Gold , gracefully rippling the caftan of pink flowered silk which she considered appropriately hip casual wear , the kids all stopped what they were doing and collected admiringly around her . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 11 | Noreen O'Neil looked good as she pranced across that stage to the catchy Irish tune . |
| 12 | Lance Percival was there to hear Ken look at Miss Sims as she arrived on that boundary between the action and the production . |
| 13 | As she moved in that direction , she glanced into the kitchen and caught sight of the clock . |
| 14 | As we glanced at each other , we shuddered with apprehension . |
| 15 | The first hour proved fairly turbulent , as we skimmed under some cumulus build-ups . |
| 16 | But as we looked at each other I had a strange sensation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But fair trade as we saw from that sketch , involves a lot more than just fair wages . |
| 19 | That is to say , it assumes the hierarchical erm conception of God 's world and the ethic of obedience , which , as we saw from that prose passage , underlies the conception of the fall as the central sin . |
| 20 | We gave them to an Embassy official as we passed through that city , en route to military installations near Fallujiah . |
| 21 | There was something like an appeal in his eyes as we gazed at each other . |
| 22 | We had tried to get a couple of er , here in Portsmouth but he had to attend , so we thought as we prepared for this conference this morning er , on the miners , that it would be appropriate to get a miner 's lamp to put and have them simply inscribed with the erm , the memory of the occasion , which turned out to be |
| 23 | Much as we longed for another child , and overjoyed as we were that we were to have another daughter , we both said that it was the hardest thing we had ever done , to see a lovely young mother say goodbye to her daughter . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Who was that man , Virginia ? ’ he persisted quietly , as they waited at more traffic lights . |
| 26 | There was silence as they glanced at each other , and Sophie said irritably , ‘ It 's exactly as I said . |
| 27 | A wave passed , so high that its spray burst against a side porthole as they stared at each other . |
| 28 | As they stared at each other everything seemed fine , the differences did not matter , all that mattered was the love they shared . |
| 29 | There was silence as they looked at each other across the table . |
| 30 | Jessica swung , clinging hard to Rory , as they made for another barn . |