Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] it [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you it 'll probably be fine and anyway as someone said it 'll be good to widen the group a bit more and launch some journalistic careers into the bargain ( -> ) . |
| 2 | This followed my 1981 legislation which had introduced the first road-safety measures for fifteen years and was used ( as I knew it would be ) to introduce compulsory seat-belts . |
| 3 | This scared him , as I knew it would . |
| 4 | ‘ Sweet , ’ he murmured , ‘ as sweet as I knew it would be . ’ |
| 5 | But it was n't as bad as I thought it might be . |
| 6 | I tried getting him slimmer once as I thought it might help him to jump even better , but it did n't suit him . |
| 7 | The abolition on stamp duty for house purchases was n't made permanent , as I thought it might be , but inheritance tax was ameliorated and he did bring in transferable tax allowances between spouses . |
| 8 | Your approach to instruments , playing and writing is n't as obvious as I thought it would be … |
| 9 | ‘ Not as bad as I thought it would be , ’ I lied . |
| 10 | It was n't really as hard as I thought it would be . |
| 11 | It is n't as painful as I thought it would be . |
| 12 | It has n't been as difficult as I thought it would be , so far … but I 'm determined not to have another smoke . |
| 13 | It 's not as difficult as I thought it would be . |
| 14 | It 's not as big as I thought it would be . |
| 15 | It was the last thing I needed to know as I prayed it would miss us . |
| 16 | What we want to do in this session as I said it will only take about twenty minutes , there are three key things we want to do . |
| 17 | as I said it could have been worded better |
| 18 | As I said it could be a thirty or a sixty minute job . |
| 19 | Starting to make bachelor apparatus interesting again , as I hoped it might . |
| 20 | This outraged Irina , as I suspected it would . |
| 21 | Just as I predicted it would , it 's falling off . |
| 22 | Yes yes right I 'll see what I can do by September I should be able to do a fair bit by then Yeah well I say I 've done the doll , that 's for August that 's for the er Beckley fete but it 's for , Friends of Beckley Church and it 's guess the doll 's birth date which as you said as you said it should have two |
| 23 | Throughswing By now the ball is flying down the fairway must as you imagined it would . |
| 24 | She had taken a job in Manchester which bored her as much as she knew it would , but where she could settle down and get to know the people she was working with . |
| 25 | Heffers ' sales were up 6 or 7% on last December : ‘ Christmas was n't marvellous , but it did n't turn out as badly as one feared it might , ’ reported Mark Wait . |
| 26 | It is also said that he leaves the defence undermanned , but neither charge was proved on Saturday as Barcelona rode adversity in an absorbing match that emphasised , as one knew it would , how hurried and imprecise so much of the British game has become and how necessary it is that we cherish such exceptions as Liverpool , Norwich and Nottingham Forest if the art is not essentially to be driven out . |
| 27 | Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ . |
| 28 | What we 're actually doing in terms of the product is we 're actually widening the franchise erm I do n't like to use words going up market that suggests that we 're leaving our core customers behind , we will we will add any product that is complimentary to our core kitchens but er we 'll still be the main stance of the product in these two stores for instance , we 're going to introduce a house wear department it is something that we 've been experimenting with before we 're going to erm use the opportunity to widen the franchise on appliances we 're going to erm use the an experiment on erm floorings to match work tops , those kind of developments just to test to see whether the customer reaction is as good as we hoped it would be so that we can then introduce it in the main chain |
| 29 | The presentation of the Statement of Commitment to any group of people is n't the easiest of tasks to perform , but the gentle and personal way you handled it in the sections for which you had a responsibility was very well done , as we knew it would be . |
| 30 | But members turned the application down as they felt it would cause more late-night trouble . |