Example sentences of "and as [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry VII , asking for such a loan in 1496 , told his people that ‘ this is a thing of so great weight and importance as may not be failed , and therefore fail ye not thereof for your said part … as ye intend the good and honour of us and of this our realm ; and as ye tender also the weal and surety of yourself ’ . |
| 2 | He may not know a word of Burmese but he will share a fag with the interested Burman who is watching all that is going on , and as they puff away together contentedly , something intangible will pass from the one to the other . |
| 3 | What is actually happening of course we know in that case what is actually happening , because nerves erm er neurones in , in the base of the brain are actually sampling the blood flow as it goes through with sugar level and when the sugar level drops to a critical point , some of those neurones start to fire and as they fire gradually the message is passed on up to the higher brain centres and eventually you get the feeling you 're hungry . |
| 4 | With a few words of explanation Sophie made the introduction and as they walked together into the house her godmother said , ‘ I 'm afraid I 've got some news which wo n't please you , but first of all I want to hear yours . ’ |
| 5 | The Fitzgerald family went together to early Mass and as they walked home everything seemed normal . |
| 6 | For there are other plates surrounding the Pacific Plate and they jostle and crash against each other , like ice floes at break-up time ; and as they jostle so they tide up against each other , pushing each other deeper , cracking and bending as they do so — only on a global scale , and with extraordinary consequences . |
| 7 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |
| 8 | Finally , several servants climbed on the roof , and as they came nearer , the monkey put me down and ran away . |
| 9 | The 11+ did n't test for those , and as they become more important — spatial skills and problem-solving ability , for instance — so girls ' performance in mathematics tends to deteriorate . |
| 10 | Setting out from Alfoxden at half-past four , Coleridge and the Wordsworths followed the Great Track over the Quantock Hills , and as they marched westward through a ‘ dark and cloudy ’ evening , agreed that a poem should be written for publication to cover the expenses of their journey . |
| 11 | To her surprise , he turned the wheel towards the channel leading to the island , and as they motored slowly past one of the enormous posts she saw a name-plate on it . |
| 12 | Others continued to argue , as they had done before , and as they do today , that the indigent could never be adequately housed because they did not know how to live with cleanliness and decency . |
| 13 | The long back legs of such hunters look highly suitable for running , and as they did so the long tail may have been held erect as a kind of counter-balance ( see p. 116 ) . |
| 14 | The World Championships crept gradually nearer , and as they did so the relay running order began to get to me . |
| 15 | They walked down the dark , creaking stairs to the empty street , and as they turned left and walked towards Cotton Lane Carrie slipped her arm through her brother 's , glad of his comforting presence despite her protests . |
| 16 | And as they moved together Folly felt her lips part to welcome the hungry passion of his mouth . |
| 17 | And as they sat together in the darkening room , as flares were lit in the garden and there was a blast of distant pop music through a crackling loudspeaker system , Molly confessed , ‘ I must say I 'm curious about Mr Kettering . ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes Julia accompanied her , and as they travelled home one day Carrie said thoughtfully , ‘ You know I never wished Ma dead , Julie , but I 've got to admit her death came at the right time for me . |
| 19 | So they stood , quite still ; and Ruth saw that Jake was not , like her , a mere mortal amongst half-mortals , but Ilbrec 's equal ; and as they drew apart , looking deeply into each other 's faces , she saw too that he was Ilbrec 's dearest friend . |
| 20 | Trade by water was easier ; the sugar colonies had a very saleable product close to the sea and as they concentrated more and more on sugar they imported their food , first from England , then from Ireland , and by the eighteenth century from New England and from the Carolinas . |
| 21 | And as we went forward , fear was driven out by horror . |
| 22 | James Riley , 14 , said : ‘ Then one of us said ‘ No , it 's a baby ’ and as we got nearer we could see it was a little boy . |
| 23 | Although I 'm not actually on the Committee of the Bridgenorth Community Centre , I 'm obviously very closely connected with it , and as we 've previously spoken about Age Concern , it is our hope that another day centre for the elderly will be set up once that community centre is up and running , because there are a great deal of elderly in that particular area . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's difficult to believe that I 'm still a Musketeer , but I am , and as we 've always told each other everything , I must tell you that although Mummy and Dad do such a lot for me , I 'm Perfectly miserable . |
| 25 | And as we drove away , we had n't travelled down the road very far when my wife looked at me in a certain way … and I knew that she wanted Low Birk Hatt as much as me . |
| 26 | As this was an art movement which America embraced with unprecedented enthusiasm and unrivalled breadth of vision , and as we specialise so much in American art objects ( we showed at the Modernism Fair in New York last year ) , the theme has provided a vehicle to address the famously discriminating audience of Grosvenor House with objects normally found only in a handful of the most forward looking museums . |
| 27 | It was really extremely hazardous , and as we stood there peering vainly into the blanket of fog it did cross my mind that we were all quite crazy . |
| 28 | After spending some time there ( as if we were actually present ) we will gradually come back to the present day , and as we do so we will become more reflective and try and push the present away from us — making it strange — by maintaining a certain distance from our immediate history . |
| 29 | But the writers of the books of the Bible did n't want us to be put off and as we look closer , it 's easy to see the human touches that the Bible includes all along the way . |
| 30 | The definition of a problem , its source and the ‘ needs , that arise from it are frequently established by professionals at an early stage and as we see here the parents , because they lack information and power , may find it very difficult to challenge such assumptions . |