Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah and I I asked the question not too much from the Green Party point of view as from a personal point view as I I would like to know what my Government is saying to do about these things . |
| 2 | Erm he he he does re remember as far as I I can tell . |
| 3 | I mean today , you 've got to be an educated man to know how to even , they 've got er tractors and everything , but in those days you 'd got to set your plough furrow out so as you you could run your plough down your first one , and then as you as you ploughed your first furrow out you 'd got to plough your next one into it . |
| 4 | Several of the passers-by turned to look at her , for although she was — as she herself would have expressed it — ‘ no Helen of Troy ’ when it came to looks , there was some thing very engaging about Breeze . |
| 5 | The civil service , the House of Lords , the Monarch , the judges , the police , the military , the security services , the Bank of England , a host of Quangos , and even the cabinet and the absolute premiership , are all seen as enjoying varying degrees of political power without any balancing responsibility to hold them in check — as we ourselves will suggest in Chapter 5 . |
| 6 | This is not always a fair criticism , as they themselves may have been extremely resistant to being told anything . |
| 7 | When his daughter Nannette inverted that action to make her down-striking action , she included the check , completing her father 's piano action as he himself might have done had he seen Gottfried Silbermann 's pianos , or indeed those of Cristofori , rather than those of Johann Heinrich Silbermann . |