Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] as [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agree with you wholeheartedly as I really always do yes . |
| 2 | You want the lord of the manor to come and carry you off as his long lost daughter , is that it ? ’ |
| 3 | You talked about everything else as you usually do . |
| 4 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
| 5 | Do n't shut them out as you normally do . |
| 6 | Maybe that was the basic problem , she told herself wearily as she now stared blindly up at the ceiling . |
| 7 | That she saw herself not as I so much wanted , as my angel of forgiveness , but as my angel of salvation . |
| 8 | Intrigued , and a little afraid of the gyrating shadows that loomed like feathery figures on the walls beside them , the boy kept close to the bent figure , curiosity alive in him , and a strange excitement driving him on as it always did when he was with the old man . |
| 9 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 10 | to see it entirely as it never is , |
| 11 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |
| 12 | We think that a coherent radical pluralism can be constructed on the basis of a humanism which accepts , as Marx put it , that human beings ‘ make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 300 ) . |
| 13 | Better watch TV HELL which probably charts the history of bad TV decently but doubtless the BBC will bollocks it up as they always do . |
| 14 | Thomas had grown up in the neighborhood of the machine and one day he had bought it , bringing it to England by boat and vaguely intending to explore the possibility of supplying a spring though he also liked it well as it still was . |