Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb -s] in [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I pass , I see the girl with glasses as she sits in her bed ; her spectacled eyes flashing bulbs on the screen . |
| 2 | As she describes in her book , she was an adolescent girl coming to grips with growing up and kicking against conventions ‘ but only in this rather middle-class way . |
| 3 | In January 1924 , when the house was nearing completion , she went twice in four days , first with her son ‘ Georgie ’ , the Duke of Kent , when they spent one and a half hours ‘ going over the beautiful miniature things ’ , as she records in her diary , and later with a friend when she ‘ arranged some of the rooms ’ . |
| 4 | It 's not half as much as she charges in her shop . |
| 5 | Equity treats her as if she was the unmarried owner of it ; it lets her dispose of it as she pleases in her lifetime , it lets her leave it by will , it even lets her make contracts which can be enforced against it , and against it only . |
| 6 | For instance , they do n't understand , as she quotes in her book , what somebody is doing when they 're reading a newspaper , or what it means when the postman looks at a envelope . |
| 7 | For instance , they do n't understand , as she quotes in her book , what somebody is doing when they 're reading a newspaper , or what it means when the postman looks at a envelope . |
| 8 | In Ego Dormio he explains to the Sister that as she grows in her love of Christ , she will find nothing matters to her but this love and the sin of man which disfigures it , and that all this is focused by thinking on the Passion of Christ : Although in The Form he makes it clear to Margaret that it is difficult to be too prescriptive about meditation , since God will put the kind of thoughts into her heart that are right for her , he does say in Emendatio Vitae that beginners in spiritual life may find the words of others helpful ( 8.120.31 – 2 ) and on occasions he himself wrote meditations on the Passion which embody his understanding of the catalysis they are designed to help . |
| 9 | As she looks in its direction , she sees in a way she has never seen before : |
| 10 | ( Two hundred years earlier , as she demonstrates in her article , it was not seen as arbitrary , but prescribed quite explicitly on the grounds that the masculine was the ‘ worthier gender ’ and must take precedence in grammar as it did in nature . ) |
| 11 | ‘ Why wo n't the bird stand sideways , nicely in profile , looking to the left — just as it does in my field guide ? ’ we ask . |
| 12 | Thankfully the scum are still in , as much as it sticks in my gut . |
| 13 | W. G. Collingwood 'd description of this technique , as it appears in his book Dutch Agnes Her Valentine , is delightfully vivid … |
| 14 | He had already admired Animal Farm which , as he tells in his diary ( 31 August 1945 ) , he read promptly on its first appearance to spite his cousin Claud Cockburn , who as a loyal Communist Party man had warned him against reading Trotskyite literature . |
| 15 | The literary ‘ thaw ’ which set in after the secret speech was now going too fast for him , as he admits in his memoirs : . |
| 16 | As he notes in his autobiography , he was torn between the conflicting demands of American and F1 racing : ‘ I recall saying to Peter Revson at the time that I really envied the hell out of him . ’ |
| 17 | We can read this assimilation of characters either as an irony beyond the Miller 's ken , confirming the limits of his churl 's intellect , or as a droll piece of self-examination and reflection on the character 's part : the Miller might , as he says in his prologue , be a cuckold as John is . |
| 18 | As he says in his autobiography , ‘ I had to take every race as it came and just try to win it because whatever happened to Niki — and the Ferrari was not relevant to me at that point . |
| 19 | I reckon Dad 'll be getting the bum 's rush to his mum as soon as he steps in our door . |
| 20 | Despite the shortage of paper and the requisitioning of most commercial photographic glass negatives for the war effort , he was never happier , as he recounts in his autobiography , Books and Myself ( 1944 ) , than during those days in World War I when he worked late into the night to the background of a pavement barrel-organ in the Farringdon Road , alert to imminent air attacks on the city . |