Example sentences of "as [noun] [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the ‘ rivers ’ are ‘ shallow ’ in this world but , as Ralegh 's nymph retorts , in reality they ‘ rage , and rocks grow cold ’ and nothing in nature is as picturesque and harmless as Marlowe would wish it to be . |
| 2 | And as luck would have it , I just happen to have a list of apparently germane truths which I have been maturing during the last month or so , after being worsted in various conversations . |
| 3 | As luck would have it , a furious wind was blowing on the day of their arrival , by hired minibus . |
| 4 | As luck would have it , my best friend is the most wonderful cook in the world , and her contributions to any cottage holiday more than compensate for those who come with a tin of sardines in tomato sauce and a Pot Noodle . |
| 5 | As luck would have it , the light was n't good enough and the shots did n't come out . |
| 6 | The first flight was scheduled for the last week in January , and as luck would have it there was a wild prairie blizzard blowing across western Canada at just the wrong time . |
| 7 | As luck would have it , I met a retired teacher walking through the grounds . |
| 8 | Since the advent of Felicity , she had gone up to sleep in the attic — an arrangement she preferred , as she had absolute privacy up there , and as luck would have it , there was an electric fire , so that she could use it as a study . |
| 9 | Two men retained their marbles , and as luck would have it they 're both roughie-toughie types as well as military scientists — a cross between Albert Einstein and Action Man ! |
| 10 | Ray uses his outside pond for retailing fish to early-season buyers and , as luck would have it , sold two Koi just as I arrived . |
| 11 | As luck would have it , she had no time to build up her fears again , for her labour pains started that very night . |
| 12 | As luck would have it the phone rang . |
| 13 | As luck would have it , a strapping young woman was coming towards them . |
| 14 | As luck would have it , Sophie had had no arrangement of her own for this evening , and , either forgetting our pact , or not taking my need for it seriously as she knew my activities were , on her terms , so innocent , had dropped in to borrow some coffee . |
| 15 | As luck would have it a fellow pupil in Diana 's dormitory complained that she had appendicitis . |
| 16 | " At that moment , as luck would have it , in came the captain of the guard , with Yona the hedgehog . |
| 17 | As luck would have it the letter had not been sent . |
| 18 | As luck would have it , Jean-Claude found he needed some old scores he had put to one side as they were too heavy to bring along with everything else we had had to load on the motor cycle . |
| 19 | Dublin is no exception and , as luck would have it , the most important event to be happening there this year is an artistic one : the opening of the Irish Museum of Modern Art ( IMMA ) . |
| 20 | As luck would have it , Turin was open and BA had a flight leaving at ten . |
| 21 | As luck would have it , he was standing at the kitchen counter , his back to her , making himself a sandwich . |
| 22 | As luck would have it , Piers was dead on time . |
| 23 | But , as luck would have it , I did n't have an opportunity to follow up my intention at the time . |
| 24 | we had the ch young children then so that erm all in all I am not sorry that things turned out as they did because erm as luck would have it , you know , |
| 25 | As luck would have it we 've chosen a bad day to join him . |
| 26 | The Americans decided that an armed resistance was necessary and they went to the United Nations , shades of Bosnia here , they went to the United Nations to get support and , as luck would have it , the Soviets were sulking , this was quite common in the nineteen forties and fifties , and the a the Soviet ambassador to the U N was having a sulk and was refusing to attend the Security Council and he therefore persuaded the Security Council to pass a resolution er producing a United Nations force to aid plucky little South Korea against its vicious oppressive northern neighbours and so the Korean war started and the United Nations ' forces were commanded by one General Douglas MacArthur , General Douglas MacArthur , in case you do n't know , won the second world war single handedly |
| 27 | As luck would have it , when she was certain that , shiny-faced and wet-headed , she must look about her worst , it was at that moment that the outer door opened and Ven came in . |
| 28 | As luck would have it , Stirling and GH-K meet at Bridgehaugh , and both were not finalising line-ups until after training last night . |
| 29 | She longed to become a Medau teacher and , as luck would have it , met Hinrich Medau in Berlin at the point when he was in need of an English Language tutor prior to a visit to the United States to introduce ball and club gymnastics . |
| 30 | Yes Jane it has , as luck would have it I was late arriving , had to run through the rain , ran into the main stand and by pure accident ran into the Oxford United dressing room and there was Brian Horton , he said ‘ Hallo Mick , hows the poster Mickey ’ as he always does , and in fact he gave me the team news and that is — Ian Walker makes his senior debut tonight with both Alan injured , also two other changes ; Jackson comes in for Gary Smart and one surprising one , Steve McLaren for Mark Steen . |