Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie 's heart was suddenly thumping as they slowly left the floor . |
| 2 | Also stems are not crushed as they usually are when using scissors or shears . |
| 3 | We think the penal system is best seen as one highly complex system and the penal crisis as a single entity — albeit with multiplex causation and a variety of symptoms . |
| 4 | ‘ Just act as you usually do when you have to visit the privy , ’ he had instructed , with a grin that Isabel could only describe as fiendish . |
| 5 | State legislatures and Congress are no longer gripped as they once were by the dead hand of privilege . |
| 6 | You just talk as you normally talk , you know ? |
| 7 | First , the NHS is no longer as progressively financed as it once was because of the current regressive system of taxation . |
| 8 | She did not resist as I gently opened her mouth . |
| 9 | Tom McClenaghan , the council 's director of administration , reveals in a report that owners will be charged an initial £12 for the security of knowing that their furry friends can no longer go as they please . |
| 10 | The African national parks are shrinking and animals can no longer roam as they once did ; and poachers run riot . |
| 11 | er one that occurs to me , no , no speaking on it myself , the jury might be interested , sometime I just like to get a feel of what a brochure looks like , not divided as it obviously has to be here , could , could we see a couple sometime , not , not now |
| 12 | Mendelssohn 's songs have always elicited a somewhat critical response because , elegant and effectively fashioned as they always are , they seldom rise to emotional or dramatic heights . |
| 13 | ‘ Ego ’ stalks like a predatory metal monster , rivalling ‘ She Said ’ as their heaviest offering , but ‘ Home ’ still ranks as their darkly majestic trump card , sounding like it wrote itself . |
| 14 | Obviously that gleam in his eye , which I have always interpreted as something completely different ( and probably libellous ) , is in fact a passionate yearning after his old job . |
| 15 | Such a possession , once recognised as it now is , no university can afford to neglect . |
| 16 | Village life is therefore not as close knit as it once was , which is common in many villages today , but nevertheless local functions held in nearby Harpham village hall are always well attended proving that there is still a sense of community in the area . |
| 17 | Substantially rewarded as they often were from ecclesiastical revenues they constituted only a minor burden on the Crown . |
| 18 | Thankfully they have now gone as they really were substandard . |
| 19 | Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life , which we should never take for granted , and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please , with none to forbid or criticise . |
| 20 | Fleeting images of Ace masterfully entering her room , of him delightfully forcing his attentions on her slowly died as she finally made herself ready for bed . |
| 21 | So a big issue about whether how well we 're placed with regard to America and Japan and so on is how well placed are we to bring about this educational step , and I think we 're probably about as well placed as anybody else , certainly we have n't made some of the mistakes that other people have made , we have n't had a very big investment in what 's often called computer assisted instruction , which I think is rather limited . |
| 22 | I ca n't watch as I reluctantly move forward |
| 23 | It is not that I have no reason to submit to the moral law and can do as I please ; I am left with no reason even to do as I please . |
| 24 | Please continue as we really need them . |
| 25 | This requires some time to be spent on organising access to playback machines and on introducing teachers to the concept , but that time is well spent as it then frees the tutor to give individual guidance to teachers with problems . |
| 26 | When the owner shouts at the cat , instead of simply stopping as it usually does , the cat will massively over-react with one of its mad-panic rushes . |
| 27 | He was n't talking as he sometimes did , just for the sake of making a conversational noise . |
| 28 | Even dressed as he now was , in a blue cotton jacket and trousers , he could never have been taken for an Italian , and since he was n't able to walk — he could only hop on one leg — or speak the language , he was hardly likely to remain free for long out in the open . |
| 29 | ‘ All the players from the side are living and well , thank God , ’ reports Derry PRO Bernie Mullan , ‘ Hugh Francis Gribben is perhaps the man furthest removed as he now lives in Meath where he is a land steward . ’ |
| 30 | In a daze of ever-increasing passion , she barely noticed as he gently removed her clothes , suddenly glad to be free of them and astonished to find herself revelling in his softly whispered murmurs of delight , the fierce gleam in his grey eyes , before first his fingers and then his lips began tracing patterns of fire on her quivering flesh . |