Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | If he/she fails to comply promptly , say , ‘ If you do not do as I asked you immediately you will have to sit on the chair in the hall . ’ |
2 | As I kissed her there ( quickly , in case my parents were looking ) , I was lulled , and calm . |
3 | I could no longer talk or laugh freely , as I knew he only approved of serious moods and studies . |
4 | I still remember him as I saw him then . |
5 | I take them to a certain stage , but I tend to find finishing a painting much more difficult than starting it , so I 'll leave it to one side , maybe for a week or more , where I can see it , and as I pass it suddenly something will click . |
6 | If the world was not as I perceived it then it was possible that I was not damned . |
7 | ‘ Someone who wanted to do what you 've just done , ’ I said as I followed him inside . |
8 | Just as I said they just phoned , Kenny just phoned and said are you coming horseracing ? |
9 | The general manager of LUFC is called Alan Roberts , but as I said I only heard half the story . |
10 | But er it certainly did a lot for the bakers but as I said it certainly took away the happy family union that we had before . |
11 | I 'd accept all that , just as I accepted her usually sharp-edged attitude to me during the nearly two years of our association . |
12 | That gave me the chance to tell what Braden had done , sounding disgusted as I told it so Mendez would have no doubt what I thought about Braden 's trick . |
13 | ‘ As I told you before , I do n't know these people the way you do . |
14 | And as I as I told you before , we was on the main concourse , heard the glass smashed , we come down a stairwell on , come round the back , saw the two , or saw two persons in the back garden , asked them what they were doing buy which time the the curtain went up in smoke , well up in flames . |
15 | Penny , tuppence , three ha'penny returns and every denomination of tickets was recorded so that you so showed the erm number of tickets , erm it was possible for a at the end of the week to record what the takings were , per route and the mileage and so , as I told you before , the mileage played a great importance in that you were able to say how much that route was producing per mile run and the erm , in those days it , the erm the receipts worked out , daily receipts , weekly receipts and the progressive total in that year , were always published by the Ipswich Evening Star , round about Tuesday or Wednesday and if you missed them , there 'd be somebo member of the public ringing up to why , answer why you had n't put it in , it was , you know , looked upon then you were , were public transport and the public team that you belonged to them . |
16 | But as i told you before , when the council started preparing for Hitler , in when I went on the council work in nineteen thirty six I had to fill the ditches in there . |
17 | The ratking is self-regulating , as I told you before . |
18 | ‘ Yes , well , as I told you before , it 's not a nice war . |
19 | Erm as I told you before , the original er conformation of the house was that that the cooked food was brought through that door through the screened door and into here as you see . |
20 | As I told you once , we all make mistakes in our youth . |
21 | But I was comfortable in it , ever a creature of habit as I told you earlier . |
22 | As I told you earlier , he spends most of his time in Hong Kong , where his major interests are . ’ |
23 | ‘ Well , as I told you yesterday , Chief Superintendent , there 's nothing in the safe . |
24 | And of course , as I told you long ago , you are beautiful , and I like the looks I get from other men when I 'm with a beautiful woman . ’ |
25 | I would like to record that they tried to cheer each other up in their double misery , but I 'm afraid the truth is that as far as I know they never spoke to each other again . |
26 | As far as I know he never took her up on any of these , and that may have been the reason why I was her least favourite Waaf on the station . |
27 | But er he never asked me , put it that way , what I thought was suitable machinery and he , as far as I know he never asked other rock men what they thought was suitable for the rock and other slate makers what they thought was suitable for inside the mill , or the diamond saw operators , what sort of saws they thought were the best . |
28 | And as far as I know he always . |
29 | So please , ladies and gentlemen , when you speak to the supporters , as I know you always do , let's keep it on a friendly basis . |
30 | Or I can stay , as I know I probably will . |