Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 9.30am the campsite was buzzing with anticipation as everyone made sure that their equipment was working . |
| 2 | As everyone knows these first alarms were phoney . |
| 3 | P P G three , the revised P P G three when it came out clearly , in my opinion changes the emphasis from the draft P P G three from the draft P P G three , paragraphs thirty two and thirty three which I would emphasize should to be read together , clearly indicates that new settlements are as someone said this morning , sorry , earlier in the discussion today , an issue of last resort . |
| 4 | The effect of Dr McNab 's arguments was by no means as overwhelming as might be supposed ; with the best will in the world and in ideal circumstances it is next to impossible to escape cerebral indigestion as someone quotes comparative figures as fluently as Dr McNab had just been doing . |
| 5 | When I think of what the ‘ ideal ’ look is for a girl , I always imagine it as someone looking happy , and that is the one thing I know I do n't look . |
| 6 | Just as someone has short sight , penicillin allergy or diabetes never recovers from these conditions but can nonetheless do or not do various things that diminish their effects or progress , similarly , sufferers from addictive disease even though they may no longer use the substance or behaviour of addiction . |
| 7 | and then he 's , he 's going out and they 're coming like that direction and he 's looked round and he 's seen the soldier , doing it , he 's gone and this is how I did it and then he put his , like this and he stuck his hands up and as his done that he 's got shot through the body from the side , what 's |
| 8 | As much as I hate comparative reviews — I can never really justify deifying one package at the expense of several other perfectly good packages — WSWIN has facilities that I find to be very attractive and useful . |
| 9 | If they carry on confounding chronology in this mendacious manner , they are likely to hit 30 as I reach 60 . |
| 10 | As I take this bread and drink this wine , I am affirming to men , and to angels and to demons , that I believe Jesus Christ died for me , and I identify myself with him in his sacrifice for me . |
| 11 | She sat facing me : calm , sympathetic , but at a distance I had no way of negotiating , as I listened dismayed to what she revealed of those islands , that lost continent . |
| 12 | My guilt feels less as I remember that . |
| 13 | Yes , I mean , I think as far as I remember last spring was a good one was n't it ? |
| 14 | Each individual aspect of dogdom has now become a complete science and discipline ; indeed , as I pen this foreword , a working party comprising the leading authorities on all aspects of dogs are compiling a nationally recognizable qualification allied to the ‘ City and Guilds ’ degree . |
| 15 | I sighed heavily as I looked first at one and then at the other while we made our slow way down the main street , past Woolworth and the traffic lights . |
| 16 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 17 | As long as I get good erm GCSE 's . |
| 18 | yes , that 's right , yes or six , six , two , I do n't really care , as long as I get fourteen it does n't really bother me |
| 19 | But I know enough about myself to know that as long as I get eight hours sleep I 'm alright ’ . |
| 20 | I am neither , nor intend to be treated as , a paid cook or a resident and beholden domestic , especially as I get tired very easily and neither of them is working . |
| 21 | Oh so as I get another chance then ? |
| 22 | All I want is some friends , but as soon as I get some real good friends they go off and leave me . |
| 23 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 24 | I will pay you back , I promise , as soon as I get payed , I give you the money back . |
| 25 | I 'll get better at this as I get more practice . |
| 26 | ‘ I used not to , my dear , but I find that I 'm feeling the cold as I get older . |
| 27 | As I get older I am coming to believe that our lives are planned before we are born … things happen so fast sometimes as you look back … you can see the pattern plain as day , where you took some turn , or events happened that you had nothing to do with . |
| 28 | They seem to get worse as I get older . |
| 29 | I hope that , as I get older , what I write becomes more mature and more universal , so I can tackle these things . |
| 30 | As I get older I find myself tormented by anxieties of this nature , the anxieties about things one will never do . |