Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These problems have been tackled in different ways and with different degrees of success , as I shall later try to explain . |
| 2 | ‘ As I shall not be seeing her again it would be pointless . |
| 3 | If research is a varied activity , so are the methods we use to undertake such studies , as I shall now explain . |
| 4 | After eating , the farmer , or my master , as I shall now call him , went back to his work in the fields . |
| 5 | In this respect the UK system , though it also has substantial defects , is superior , as I shall now try to establish . |
| 6 | Both conservatives and feminists however , as I shall then consider , may take refuge in the suggestion that whereas Christ is a male figure , Mary ( or the Holy Spirit ) is an equivalent ‘ female ’ representation . |
| 7 | In his note he asked for medical help — some vitamins , eye-drops , ‘ as I ca n't go out ’ — and for some money . |
| 8 | And then , just as if in answer to her private thought , the pilot went on : ‘ I 'd like to kiss each one of you before I go , but as I ca n't very well do that I 'll give your Brown Owl a big thank-you kiss for you all ! ’ |
| 9 | I have a fitting on Sunday for the ‘ New Faces ’ final — one gown with three jackets to ring the changes over the ninety minutes of live T.V. It 's imperative that I do the show as I ca n't think of anyone who could step into the breach should I become ill . |
| 10 | The child , now turning a smiling face towards Aggie , said , ‘ I 'll stand on the chair and that 'll take me half-way up , but you 'll have to do the rest , as I ca n't reach . |
| 11 | As I ca n't afford a docking station and the notebook wo n't accept an external keyboard , I 'm left with the A4-sized platform as my only writing tool . |
| 12 | And erm anyway it was a wonderful place , wonderful relationship with the men and erm about the only odd thing about it I 've come up against a snag which I did n't think I 've had a ghost writer , I 've got publishers , and as I ca n't get er permission for all the photos that I want . |
| 13 | Quite probably it was the truth , as I ca n't think of any good reason for you to have lied … |
| 14 | And this is why as I ca n't remember if we mentioned it now , maybe did , maybe or someone else did , that the ego carries out repression very often at the demand of the superego , so the superego has its standards , its barriers , its sense of conscience , its threat of guilt , and the ego , to satisfy those demands , to avoid guilt , carries out repression at its , at its command , or at its insistence . |
| 15 | In fact I ca n't remember anything about it at all , just as I ca n't remember anything before the age of three . |
| 16 | Erm I 've circled , Have you qualified sales by telephone as I ca n't believe you have n't |
| 17 | ‘ Well , as I ca n't ask him … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ As I ca n't stop Paul coming , I might as well make use of him , ’ Maureen said cheerfully . |
| 19 | Oh yeah , at night , anyway because at night he 's alone and he 's from it and during the day , I know , I know my brother as I ca n't rely on the , and , and , you know , and look at , Michelle would look at , at him all the time , but , put , put the thing on you know . |
| 20 | I 've had two or three of them buggers but I think I 'd better go this time as I ca n't get no more . |
| 21 | We ( or they , as I would probably have said at the time ) now lived in a detached , fairly large house in a village in Berkshire ; my father taught at a primary school in a nearby village , and my mother had a job at the Harwell Atomic Research Establishment . |
| 22 | Not that it mattered , as I would probably not see either of them again , but the scene last night had been strange , and my curiosity was aroused . |
| 23 | Which would you recommend , as I would not want any harm to come to either fish ? |
| 24 | In the context of the Paganini , I would argue that minor imprecisions do little to interfere ( much as I would dearly do without them ) with the focal point of the work — it 's raison d'être , ie fabulous solo fiddle playing . |
| 25 | I 'd save lots of money as I would n't have to pay for digs . |
| 26 | ( My dad never touched the pig , though I was sure this was conditioning rather than religious scruple , just as I would n't eat horse 's scrotum . |
| 27 | I 'm left a little cold by sampling and sequencers in general — just as I would n't consider a romantic liaison with my fridge — but I did find myself interested by it all . |
| 28 | But the threat of sanctions imposed by the United Nations is at the back of his mind , ‘ We have discussed it and it is of great personal interest to me as I would n't have a job . |
| 29 | ‘ But one does talk , and I know Peter well enough to guess that he would n't keep me against my will , just as I would n't want to keep him . |
| 30 | I was not successful in getting the system going as I would really have liked . |