Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bride , however , may speak instead of her husband or as well as him . |
| 2 | If you are worried about anything , particularly your pet or pets , then either before you go under the anaesthetic or as soon as you are conscious , ask the nurse to ring your neighbour and find out if they received your message and whether everything is all right . |
| 3 | ‘ They 'll have it tomorrow morning — or as soon as I 'm free to give it . ’ |
| 4 | The Regulation enters into force on 1 January 1993 or as soon as it is approved by the European Parliament , which should be the end of March . |
| 5 | Singapore 's trouble is that as soon as its economy starts to grow by more than 6–7% , the labour market tends to get tight . |
| 6 | He was pleased to see that as soon as they left the abbey gate , they were joined by the soldiers Sir James Selkirk had stationed near the abbey . |
| 7 | Percy Lubbock , at the end of The Craft of Fiction , acknowledged that as soon as we have finished reading a novel we begin to forget it , and what is left to talk about is a vague cloud of fading impressions : ‘ the book vanishes as we lay hands on it . ’ |
| 8 | What it does say is neatly summed up by Bereiter ( 1980 ) : " the disappointing message of the Schools ' Council research is that as soon as we begin to look beyond syntax , vocabulary and the like and try to Investigate functional aspects of student writing , we begin to find out more about the school system than we find out about children . " |
| 9 | ‘ Is it just coincidence that as soon as we arrive all sorts of weird shit starts happening ? |
| 10 | At weekends we cycled there under the hot sun in the early afternoon , not minding the heat at all because we knew that as soon as we arrived the cool water would welcome us . |
| 11 | We know that as soon as we try and make inroads into that it , it would absolutely mushroom . |
| 12 | He stumbled and droned and scribbled in his book like someone half asleep , but Miss Thorne knew that as soon as he had got rid of the book and started working on the character of Scrooge he would be very different . |
| 13 | I suspected that as soon as he left the boatyard the chart would be similarly destroyed . |
| 14 | Nicholas Ferrar refused all these suggestions , having decided that as soon as he was free to do so he wished to lead a religious life . |
| 15 | Now he strode out not apprehensive that he might have lost contact with that gift of powerful calm which had so effectively stilled the thresh of his emotions , but confident that as soon as he reached the Point and stood as and where he had first stopped — the experience would be renewed and reinforced , the key would fit the lock . |
| 16 | " You mean that as soon as he married I should be disinherited ? " |
| 17 | ‘ A lot of families will say that as soon as he 's got the dowry you 'll get the girl back . |
| 18 | Gary 's father , Frank Hutchinson , of Frederick Street , Meadowfield , told an inquest in Darlington yesterday that as soon as he heard the news on the radio he was certain his son had been hurt and immediately contacted police . |
| 19 | All teachers know that as soon as you say " Words never end in -ley " , some bright child asks , " What about valley ? " |
| 20 | So you do n't finish up with a battery that as soon as you 've used it for about a minute , that 's it ca n't get any more |
| 21 | And you know very well that as soon as you start to launch yourself into the world of contracting by , by its very nature a contract a a automatically has loopholes in it , and the more you write in a contract the more loopholes you 've got . |
| 22 | same lines , but , he know he , you assume that as soon as you got outside him , that bloody draft would come round and push him back and the other bloke would carry on . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , I sensed that as soon as I saw you . |
| 24 | ‘ I felt that as soon as I took over Gary had it in his mind that he was n't looking to play for England beyond the two years which took him up to the European Championships , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Gaitskell became excited at the prospect and instructed me with great firmness that as soon as I had received the ‘ discovered ’ documents I was to show them to no one but to come straight to him , so that he should be the first person to know who the culprit was or what information was available that would lead to the culprit 's identity . |
| 26 | At the ship 's office I was informed that Sir George Clerk , the British Ambassador , had sent a message that as soon as I landed I was to call on him at the Embassy . |
| 27 | You were mine — I knew that as soon as I set eyes on you . |
| 28 | I 'm very sorry that as soon as I have finished this welcome this morning that I have got to leave you , and I am very sorry that I shall not be able to return this evening for your dinner which I would originally look forward very much to but I trust that you will enjoy the company of the Chairman of our Environmental Services Committee , Councillor Robin Draga , who is attending on my behalf . |
| 29 | he said at the time that as soon as his international career was over that he could go back to Blackheath and see them right . |
| 30 | You might have company , " Patrick panted. he knew that they had n't been followed , but he also knew that as soon as his mother discovered that he — that both of them — had gone , the first place she would head for would be Joe Hyde 's flat . |