Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as I argue in the final section , the extent of sexual dimorphism will depend not on the extent to which reproductive success varies in the two sexes but on the comparative effects of particular phenotypic traits on the breeding success of males and females . |
| 2 | I can not do as I like in the house . |
| 3 | As I waited in the porch with the bridesmaids , I saw Shanti get out of the car , take her father 's arm , and walk towards us . |
| 4 | As I indicated in the preceding chapter , innovative approaches to language teaching that have been recommended in the past have not , generally speaking , been subjected to this kind of pragmatic treatment . |
| 5 | In relation to the former , as I indicated in the first paper , our capacity to invent commodity vocabulary is not paralleled by levels of commodity understanding . |
| 6 | As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone . |
| 7 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
| 8 | As I argued in the previous chapter , boxing was the first sport in which institutional arrangements permitted a black presence : almost every weight division produced black boxers of such brilliance that they were virtually without equals ( see Henderson , 1949 , 1970 ; Maher , 1968 ) . |
| 9 | I smiled to myself as I let in the clutch and moved off I would stop at the shop and tell the little man that he could collect his pans without the slightest fear of being torn limb from limb , but my overriding emotion was one of relief that I had not cut the sparkle out of the big dog 's life . |
| 10 | I found it interesting to take one person , say the rector , Charles Henstock , and make him the chief character in one book and follow his fortunes , as I had in the first book about the great Mrs Curdle . |
| 11 | As I lay in the ditch I was suddenly conscious of a very strong indescribably sickly smell . |
| 12 | I had hoped to slip in unnoticed but , almost as soon as I booked in the hotel , I was isolated by a dusk to dawn curfew . |
| 13 | In the sociology of the 1960s and 1970s , as I noted in the Introduction , much attention was given , especially by those thinkers who can be regarded broadly as Marxist structuralists , to an analysis of the hidden ‘ logic of structures ’ , or ‘ structural causality ’ . |
| 14 | The consequences of such a reduction in the level of armaments ( and more generally of ‘ military preparedness ’ ) are considerable , for as I noted in the first edition of this book , if there is any generalization about the causes of war which is supported by some empirical evidence , it seems to be that which establishes a connection between an arms race and an increased probability of war ( Richardson , 1960 ) . |
| 15 | But even as I engaged in the ritual unarmed combat with Springsteen ( well , I was unarmed ) over possession of the duvet , I had a nasty feeling that I was n't taking this whole thing seriously enough . |
| 16 | As I took in the traffic thundering by beneath me and relived in my mind my alarming experience , my trepidation returned . |
| 17 | This time lag , however , dies not always occur , as I show in the same study , and we are not in a situation to make the kind of general assumption made by Morgan and Engels . |
| 18 | As I said in the punchcard article , a lace carriage for the chunky machine is not feasible , at least in the immediate future . |
| 19 | Julian Cope 's new single , as I said in the NME , is a taster from the ‘ Jehovakill ’ album and once again finds the old maestro … ’ |
| 20 | As I said in the case of No 617 Squadron , their enormous success on the Dams raid and on some of the less spectacular sorties that they had flown , rubbed off on all 617 's sorties thereafter . |
| 21 | As I said in the nineteenth century government did very little . |
| 22 | Notts in this first half are going to be as they like to be , attacking the Kop end , a Kop end which is utterly deserted because Pisa have n't brought any fans with them but they 've brought a very large following of journalists , and as I said in the initial two-way with Martin , there has been a language barrier between them and me , but when they pointed to the weather and all shivered together , I knew precisely what they meant . |
| 23 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 24 | ‘ One night after a gig in Whelans , I went down to The Nightrain and as I came in the door I heard this note-perfect rock music , ’ he says . |
| 25 | ‘ Hello , ’ he said , as I paused in the doorway . |
| 26 | As I walked in the door I was greeted by a new son and a strange emotional mixture of delight and disappointment at not having been there . |
| 27 | He said I ca n't I 'm here on my own , he said get a cab and I 'll give you the money back , so anyway I rung Pauline 's husband up Steve and he said I 'll take you , I said to Steve I 've got ta get there for one o'clock cos I said I really do feel that if I do n't see him before he goes I ai n't gon na bloody see him , he was ever so good , he were here at twenty to one , got straight in the car put his foot down , went to the General and just as I got in the door Steve do n't worry about me parking , go , I 'll find you , just get in there , I ran through the bloody doors , ran up the stairs cos I knew |
| 28 | As I sit in the sandbag shelter at 10 o'clock on this cold night on gate watch I have time to contemplate the months that I have spent in the Auxiliary Fire Service . |
| 29 | I 'll tell you this as I sit in the centre of my maze and listen to the clear song of the thrush : the murderous soul I met at Maubisson was one of the most chilling I have ever encountered . |
| 30 | I would often see her watching me as I played in the fields . |