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Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb base] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	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 .
2	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 .
3	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 .
4	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 .
5	And as far as I know he always .
6	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 .
7	Or I can stay , as I know I probably will .
8	Nowadays I am obsessional about checking the gadget , particularly as I use it infrequently .
9	as I speak it right ?
10	See how I turn up the corners of my mouth as I tell you again , twenty-five dollars . ’
11	In principle , though I think it 's very difficult , as I understand it right now , you 've got to go through a rather unfriendly session of training the computer to respond to your voice , and if you say something in a slightly different way later on it may not recognize it as the word that you had previously trained it on .
12	That does of course pose one or two problems , as far as the locational aspects of the new settlement are concerned , as I understand it neither the County Council nor the relevant District Councils have mandated on the question of location , they 've not yet embarked on the detailed exercise which will be necessary to identify a preferred location .
13	Mr and Mrs are as I understand it entirely satisfied with that school .
14	With evaluation , as I conceive it here , they take on a more active monitoring role and , albeit under the ultimate direction of the teacher , become partners in the pedagogic enterprise .
15	Just just to see cos as I say I just ca n't believe it .
16	Yeah but as I say I just want to make it clear to people that it 's er it 's a bit of both and I think a bit of bit of heated argument was
17	I 'm not encouraging it because as I say I really , present time I ca n't see that it 's going to be of any assistance to me to have the opinion of solicitors from er from any part really , from the defendant or or someone else .
18	But er maybe once or twice , as I say I usually go out with my kids , and they do n't usually stop you .
19	No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles .
20	So erm yes I think everybody 's very very disappointed as I think we probably heard with Paul Simpson because United certainly in my books , played some of the best football I 've seen them play since they 've been back in the second division in the erm first half , but really did let things slip away a little bit in the second .
21	Hall then wrote to Palmerston , on 20th March , only one week after asking for the designs , saying that he would not include Donaldson as I think it very doubtful whether the new Department will be proceeded with , as I hope the Downing Street improvement will be carried out' , and two days later The Saturday Review in an article on the competition also suggested that the War Department should be moved to the Downing Street area .
22	They looked at each other , then returning their gaze to the far distance there was a silence between them before Mick went on again , ‘ As I see it now , real education is what you get from life : not what life gives you , but what you give to it .
23	Anyway , as I see it now , if the authorities have got wind of her havin' a youngster , we 'll have some of them officials and the do-gooders comin' round , and it 'll be the workhouse in the end . ’
24	‘ I saw them both as plainly as I see you now . ’
25	Roy Hattersley , as I believe he once mentioned , supports Sheffield Wednesday .
26	I appreciate that the outcome will make no difference to my current computer display as I believe I only have a monitor capable of standard VGA display .
27	I like to use Norwegian salmon rather than Scotch as I find it more juicy and delicate in flavour .
28	No , I er do it as I need it actually .
29	In the first place , I 'm not , as you put it so vividly , ‘ after ’ Robert .
30	As you join us tonight , a torchlight procession is getting underway as doctors and patients protest against plans to cut services at their hospital .