Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , , it 's just a but he was , you know , I was fairly slow , and then I went on , I followed erm , I ended up slightly , as well , erm , then I went to college up to the age of eighteen , erm , and as soon as I finished college he made me a department manager . |
| 2 | Survival instincts took precedence , and I was all thumbs as I disentangled camera , binocular , rucksack and rifle straps from round my neck . |
| 3 | Then , as I gathered kit and loaded up , I watched the sky , no longer black but grey , as it was heated gently from below . |
| 4 | I had heard about the Dog Man before on my week-long journey from Kirk Yetholm towards Edale — travellers going north had told me as I journeyed south at first that the Dog Man was only three days ahead of me , then two days ahead of me , and then the final group of walkers had told me that it would n't be long before I caught him up . |
| 5 | Well I think you see on that , as I 'd sort of said to you before |
| 6 | This was at first very difficult because he knew as little English as I knew German . |
| 7 | Not as I knew sadness . |
| 8 | I have no knowledge of its contents , but was instructed to send it to you as soon as I heard news of Mr Steen 's death . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
| 10 | The valley of the White Kielder Burn steepened again as I trudged north , its curves tightening . |
| 11 | ‘ As soon as I saw newspaper reports that a body had been found , I had a gut feeling that it was Nealle . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 13 | As soon as I left school I found work in the local Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura . |
| 14 | I used it every day in my writing and after reading the Simontons ' book Getting Well Again , had started toying with it as an anti-cancer technique almost as soon as I left hospital . |
| 15 | It became very wet as I carried water to the beasts because there were some very rough days and then it flared out and froze . |
| 16 | Set off early , which was fortunate as I had trouble finding the right path . |
| 17 | It is an excellent book , as I took care to point out , except for my few niggles . |
| 18 | I remember when I thought lipstick had gone forever , a dream of painted excess , as I thought paper taffeta had gone forever , in Cambridge , when we all took to glazed cotton . |
| 19 | As I drove north , the sky turning greyer and darker and more flags at half-mast , I remembered one final moment in Fayetteville . |
| 20 | I bantered little with myself as I drove home later that night . |
| 21 | I wore my new glasses as I drove south to pick up Werewolf . |
| 22 | And both these events are in keeping with the image we 're seeking and as I said self financing . |
| 23 | Er threats , again as I said privatization , lack of funds , road haulage , safety erm again bad . |
| 24 | As I said boycott . |
| 25 | In the end , I decided the most prudent moment in the day would be as I served afternoon tea in the drawing room . |
| 26 | As I went face first into about two kilos of potatoes , a large hand seized hold of my T-shirt from behind . |
| 27 | Now they untangled themselves to watch as I layered face cream on to my face and hands in the endless battle to save my skin from drying up altogether . |
| 28 | We doubled resources in 1989 , and as soon as I became Home Secretary , I realised that that was one of the most important issues that I would have to deal with . |
| 29 | As soon as I started work part of my salary went towards buying a radio . |
| 30 | And as I changed tack , the harbour came into view round the headland , with the hill rising behind it , where pines grow in a sheltered spot , and then I could make out the white walls of my house through the binoculars . |