Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For another thing , the region is one of the edge of things if I may so put it and that 's why I 'm down here I mean as , as I know when we 're up there we 're at the centre of things , but lots of people do n't |
| 2 | Dury , however , is a theatrical voice to be taken rather more seriously , as I discovered when I met him in his current lodgings , adjacent to the Swan Theatre . |
| 3 | But today the prostate operation is routine , as I discovered when I visited the operating theatre a few days after I had had mine . |
| 4 | Many of you may have noticed that Good Housekeeping is now on sale at the checkout in Sainsbury 's , which has gone down brilliantly with shoppers , as I discovered when I visited my local London branch . |
| 5 | In short , whereas there is not the possibility of using an argument from analogy to answer factual questions about time on the Sun , there is the possibility when it comes to people 's feelings , and so , being predisposed by the second reason to think that there is some sort of connection between moaning and the pain-language , we naturally fall into the trap of confusing valid fact-establishing arguments from analogy with invalid meaning-establishing ones , and produce the well-known argument that I am , in general , justified in applying ‘ mental ’ language to other people by the fact that they behave as I do when I 'm in a certain state of mind . |
| 6 | I open the window a crack and breathe in the coldness , as I do when I am running in the evenings . |
| 7 | That gave me the same charge as I remembered when I was a little kid and could memorise every record I had , who the publishing company was , how long the song was and what label it was on . |
| 8 | Now as you know when we used to do the sums we used to have a little bit of paper and , and work it out on this separate bit of paper , but he said to me out of the blue he said , where did it , how did you get that figure ? |
| 9 | Er , we looked at it as you know when we were considering reorganisation of committees and I think this is perhaps one of the few things to come out of all that . |
| 10 | You must let me know as soon as you know when you 're moving , wo n't you ? |
| 11 | As you know when you go across on stitch , so one second would increase er by a hundredfold . |
| 12 | Christie , as you saw when he walked slowly round the track in a Union Jack , loves a wallow in praise . |
| 13 | Well they , they , they 'd do visiting like and as you say when they were sick and things like that . |
| 14 | She sniffed , then switched the subject as she does when she knows she 's wrong . |
| 15 | If we placed as much effort into making a fuss of children when they are good as we do when they are naughty we might make even greater gains . |
| 16 | To force increased employment costs on such firms , as we do when we add all that baggage to employees , is likely to drive them nearer to the margin , nearer to closing down . |
| 17 | In everyday speech , we do not pronounce words as clearly as we do when we are asked to say them in isolation . |
| 18 | The consummate silliness of Beerbohm 's sneer , quite apart from showing just how brittle and thin was that famous ‘ wit ’ of his , has alas a representative significance also , as we see when we put beside it Maurice Bowra , another famous ‘ wit ’ , saying of Pound that he was , not just a bore , but an American bore' . |
| 19 | As we see when we examine the Spycatcher cases , in the area of civil liberties the courts seem to have come to regard themselves as the partners of the executive , tackling difficult problems together , rather than as a separate , autonomous , and sometimes necessarily antagonistic branch of government . |
| 20 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 21 | With charming naivety , they do not imagine that they themselves are the source of it : they behave as they do when they see a frightened horse , becoming agitated and desirous of flight . |
| 22 | When learners watch video programmes in the target language , they are exercising their listening skills as they do when they listen to an audiotape . |
| 23 | STAR STYLES : Girls fell for fashionable Phillip ( above ) yesterday , just as they do when he 's stripped to play Joseph ( left ) . |
| 24 | He maintains that group members will soon accept the non-criminal character of this new member of their group , and they will behave as they do when he is not among them ( Polsky 1967 ) . |
| 25 | He occasionally uses his verbal felicity as a means of protecting his negative face , just as he does when he makes his ethical arguments for turning down Hollar 's request deliberately complex . |
| 26 | As he explained when I met him , he became so angry when he read what they had to say about the Princess that he wanted to ring the editors and complain , but realized that , rather than spending every day on the telephone , a simpler solution was to stop reading them . |
| 27 | He takes a kindly interest in David , whose father he had buried , as he recalls when he takes the boy to his shop to be measured for mourning for his mother 's funeral . |