Example sentences of "as [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local nurseryman was finishing off as most started their day . |
| 2 | ‘ Who did you say ? ’ says Bill into the phone in a teasing voice , without taking the pipe out of his mouth , and looking blankly at Howard as he talks , as somewhere to rest his eyes . |
| 3 | In other words , the Church recognised Constantine as successfully achieving what Jesus had signally failed to do . |
| 4 | I am sure you would be amused if you could see me struggling to do such a basic ‘ computer thing ’ as merely use it as a word processor ! |
| 5 | which effectively determined this case in the courts below and it is the law as so stated which the appellant prosecutor now challenges as an unwarranted judicial gloss upon the statutory language , as opposed to a legitimate construction of it . |
| 6 | The ocean provided a bountiful supply of fresh food and , together with the forests inland , provided all the raw materials necessary to reap the harvest , as well as jealously guard it . |
| 7 | THE LAST 10 days or so have not so much shaken the world as utterly changed it . |
| 8 | These have been colour coded as above to help you identify when they are available . |
| 9 | But it bothered her , because Naylor You'll-do-as-I-say Massingham had as good as just told her that either she shut up and went along with everything he said , even to the extent of pretending to be engaged to him , or he would dismiss her ! |
| 10 | If we 're adding a positive number , so if I say add plus three to a number , it 's the same as just adding them , okay ? |
| 11 | If this is deposited in an open bin or refuse sack , the dog may steal the wrapping , taking it through the house , and causing a mess , as well as finally eating it . |
| 12 | No one knows who first made this ingenious invention , although as already indicated it was probably towards the end of the thirteenth century . |
| 13 | Finally the critical element in outcome is effectiveness but as already mentioned there are still big gaps in our knowledge of the effects of many procedures both at the individual and population level . |
| 14 | As already mentioned what is significant for a task description leading to an interface design may be different from what is significant for personnel allocation and training but the available procedures are the same . |
| 15 | If gestures draw one 's attention to something , can we see ourselves as somehow drawing our own attention to how things look to us ? |
| 16 | To see this argument as somehow cancelling what went before is probably to interpret the pamphlet according to modern and anachronistic notions of authorial intention , character utterance , and textual unity ( all three notions privileging what is said finally as being more truthful than what went before ) . |
| 17 | Richard was quite correct , as technically speaking they were all in harbour , in addressing them by the names of their craft . |
| 18 | ‘ Fine , fine , ’ Fabia as quickly assured her , all she needed to know about Cara and Barney there in her mother 's question . |
| 19 | And Cadfael , who had opened his mouth to continue the story where this miserable avenger had left it , as quickly closed his lips again upon silence . |
| 20 | Claims that Retin-A worked by provoking a mild irritation and swelling in the skin , as well as permanently sensitising it , could not be easily dismissed . |
| 21 | Time as ever to turn our attentions to weather with the very lovely Lloyd Quinan . |
| 22 | As Oxfam enters its 50th year , it 's as determined as ever to improve their quality of life . |
| 23 | As Oxfam enters its 50th year , it 's as determined as ever to improve their quality of life . |
| 24 | Futurologists however continue as confidently as ever to predict what we shall soon be doing , and it has been very easy for them to extrapolate from contemporary trends , possibilities and experimentation into an even more thoroughly machine-using future . |
| 25 | His sisters were still at home , unwilling as ever to comprehend him , only making him feel oafish , prematurely old , unclean . |
| 26 | He can picture the woman to whom he is relating , as uncomplicatedly wanting him , her desire being to satisfy his . |
| 27 | Without the fourth gospel there were very few sayings which could be taken as directly expressing what Jesus ' own self-understanding might have been ; for most of these statements are in it , not in the synoptics . |
| 28 | The camera then as always gave him a major problem . |
| 29 | Though it is a sensitive plant , it is quite a good one to grow , as once established it will develop into a sturdy cluster which will last for many years . |
| 30 | If you understand the reason why the question is being asked you will feel less inclined to regard the interviewer as unduly poking his or her nose into your private business . |