Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb base] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall make an announcement as soon as I reach a decision . |
| 2 | I look round as I reach a junction in the corridor and he quickly pops back into his office . |
| 3 | As I take a step forward I say not to worry , I am not police . |
| 4 | Perhaps somebody 's working at Kingston , as long as I get a trial . |
| 5 | I hope so , as long as I get a sleep at night , I do n't care what you 're giving me . |
| 6 | Squeeze them in sure we 'll find somewhere for them to go , vacate , so long as I get a kiss from everybody apart from the boys and |
| 7 | As soon as I get a draft I 'll I 'll let you know what the perfections are . |
| 8 | It is cool outside as I throw a log on the gently breathing embers . |
| 9 | I stroke it gratefully as I raise a counter-objection to Lesser 's counter-proposals . |
| 10 | as far as I know a thrift to be a large mongoose inhabiting the |
| 11 | I think as I as I reveal a bit more you 'll get it . |
| 12 | There is the unity of the moment : different tactile and proprioceptive sensations amount to a coherent body image ; different visual sensations cohere to a visual field ; and sensations from different modalities converge to a general sensory field , an organized moment-by-moment presence of a world , so that the feeling in my hand as I hold a stone , the sight of the sea and the sound of the seagull behind me are all not merely present but co-present . |
| 13 | ‘ As I hold a season ticket I had no occasion to call in at the booking office . |
| 14 | But , remarkable or not , this is what we say ; there is this language game in which what happens later ( 7–8 , 14 , etc. , cf. 100 ) is the criterion ( 22 ) of my meaning someone , or something : asked whether I wanted Jones to come , I answer almost as I answer a question about my present sensations ( 7 ) and yet I say , ‘ I meant you , not Jones . ’ |
| 15 | I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest — clumsily . |
| 16 | As I speak a chance now for Martin Foyle — Foyle has scored for Oxford — he 's done it , Oxford have pulled one back , tremendous through ball for Martin Foyle . |
| 17 | We still do not have a proper address for Nanking , but I 'll try to sent it to you soon , as I understand a comrade from Nanking is coming to see us here to make arrangements for our visit there . |
| 18 | By the looks of it it is that as I say a screw 's keeping that thing on . |
| 19 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 20 | And I and I as I say a lot was done because the poverty . |
| 21 | Yeah , but as I say a lot of that could be Doctor Spock 's erm |
| 22 | ‘ For the same reason as I say a carpenter , I dare say ! ’ shrugged Joan . |
| 23 | I often think of them now as I share a strawberry daiquiri with Morrissey and Loz from Kingmaker in the Hyatt Buenos Aires . |
| 24 | Well as soon as I have a window in my diary which I 'm not |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll arrange a press briefing as soon as I have a base and something to say ; meanwhile , all I can tell you is that early this morning Matthew Glynn , the bookseller , was found dead in his office in circumstances suggesting foul play . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I have , ’ the young man told his father , ‘ taken a firm resolution to conquer or dye , and [ to ] stand my ground as long as I have a man remaining with me . ’ |
| 27 | Officially speaking anyway , just as I have a passport . |
| 28 | ‘ I ca n't complain , ’ he said , ‘ as I have a voice in one of the chambers of parliament . |
| 29 | Nowhere to be seen and one of the reasons I bought the magazine was to read the article as I have a Ti'ko machine ( and incidentally have been very pleased with it ) . |
| 30 | Equality brings emancipation : according to Marx it will be ‘ possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow , to hunt in the morning , fish in the afternoon , rear cattle in the evening , criticise after dinner , just as I have a mind without ever becoming hunter , fisherman , shepherd or critic ’ . |