Example sentences of "as [pron] [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moll also otters what in this period is an exceptional awareness of the prostitute as someone sexually exploited because of economic and other kinds of social subjection : |
| 2 | Saying Grace is not always a prelude to conventional manners in Free Kirk households as I once found when asked to offer the Grace in a cottage in Point , Lewis , in which the great aunt of a friend lived . |
| 3 | Then , as I often did when I was alone at sea , I began to recite Shakespeare . |
| 4 | When I listened though , as I often did when my curiosity over-ran my actions , he was different from the rest . |
| 5 | I slightly lengthened my stride , feeling self-conscious as I always do if I find myself marching in step with martial music , when I deliberately break step and try to walk between the beats , as it were , in as unmilitary a way as possible . |
| 6 | As I neurotically double-check if the tape is running , I mutter by way of apology , ‘ I 've had some bad experiences with tape recorders . ’ |
| 7 | We are , as you probably gathered if you 've been with us , talking about the , the Gulf conflict . |
| 8 | I 'd been a bit dithery for a few days , sort of clumsy and absentminded , as you often get when you 're feeling under the weather . |
| 9 | She swallowed hard , dragging her eyes away as she belatedly realised where her wayward thoughts were taking her . |
| 10 | Nutty thought she was on to a good idea and went home happily , taking over from her mother in the shop as she usually did while her mother started to get the tea . |
| 11 | And Megan went , as she always went where Ann led . |
| 12 | When he asked , what did she mean , ‘ taunting ’ , she resorted , as she always did when they argued , to silence . |
| 13 | She stood in the doorway with her hand on her hip as she always did when she was angry . |
| 14 | She stood in the doorway with her hand on her hip as she always did when she was angry . |
| 15 | Then Mum changed her tone , as she always did when she wanted to wheedle something out of somebody . |
| 16 | She began to pray to God herself , seeing God quite clearly , as she always did when she said prayers , a robed , long-haired , bearded figure , partly obscured by clouds . |
| 17 | It is interesting to note that when they do discover some titbit amongst the bottom debris , they very rarely charge off with it as they normally do when picking up our hookbaits . |
| 18 | Door bars may require to be replaced as they often buckle when being lifted . |
| 19 | When string ensembles played in four parts , as they sometimes did if circumstances limited the number of players available , they simply left out the quinte . |
| 20 | His two thumbs rotated about one another as they always did when he was agitated and looking for a way to strike . |
| 21 | She broke off abruptly , as they always did when they felt themselves nearing the forbidden topic . |
| 22 | They were sitting as they always did when her father was home , in the large airy dining room which looked out on the stone patio where in the summer clematis bloomed white and purple . |
| 23 | The night before the wedding the girls hardly slept at all and they did not chatter to one another as they usually did until they found sleep . |
| 24 | Thereafter , clause 54 was not the subject of further debate and passed into law as it now stands as section 63 of the Act . |
| 25 | The real power in Aquitaine , in the sense of the power to appoint men or collect and transfer money , lay , of course , with Henry — as it always did when he was on the Continent and chose to exercise it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It tinkled furiously , as it always did when he became agitated for any reason . |
| 28 | She threw up until the nausea passed , just as it always did if she drank alcohol , but now it was almost as if her body already knew alcohol was bad for the tiny life growing inside her . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the French performed a volte-face worthy of their government 's foreign policy habits , and gave the cardiac arrest generation nouvelle cuisine , or cuisine minceur and then cuisine naturelle , as it quickly became when the first fanatical asceticism mellowed . |
| 30 | In no time at all the rib was ‘ tucking ’ — not on the main bed , as it usually does if it is going to have a fit of tucking , but this time on the ribber bed . |