Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Along with Lieutenant Bill Lloyd he had perfected the techniques for getting ashore among rocks ; but now Bill Lloyd was badly wounded , hit in the neck almost as soon as they began their grenade-tossing dash , firing tommy-guns from the hip . |
| 32 | Lenin 's confidence that the soviets would provide the country with a revolutionary form of government that could function without bureaucracy was proved ill-founded almost as soon as they began their work . |
| 33 | Anyway , as soon as they saw me they scampered over and said , ‘ We know you , you 're that Derrick May are n't you ? ' |
| 34 | At Bolter 's Lock , a crowd singing , as soon as they saw us , songs from my show … |
| 35 | And erm but the trouble was as soon as they saw us come , they were right behind us going like this with their horns , you know ! |
| 36 | As soon as they knew I was in prison they were trying to get involved and everything . |
| 37 | There had been a few times , with my accent , I 'd been called names , but as soon as they knew I was Jewish I had a hundred mothers and brothers and fathers to take care of me . |
| 38 | MOTORISTS forget everything they have learned about road safety as soon as they pass their driving test . |
| 39 | As soon as they pass their driving test , they can get out of the supervised test car and hop into a two or three litre car and off they go down the road to possibly death and destruction . |
| 40 | ‘ And as soon as they realised it was an emergency , the offending drain was fitted with a plug . ’ |
| 41 | As soon as they realised my charge was arson I was left to sit in the cubicle : everybody else disappeared . |
| 42 | and er I mean and these were three young girls , they only just started to work and yet they 'd got a car and as soon as they finished they they were going on this picnic |
| 43 | And as soon as they finished their feed and they had some drinks from the small tins as well , we used to put them one by one back in these boxes where the eggs were and they used to settle down straight off then after they had their feed and and they used to erm settle down no trouble at all . |
| 44 | It meant that she started off at an advantage , for as soon as they imagined they had caused her misery they found that they were only confirming her grim and ribald idea of the way things would always be . |
| 45 | Further details will reach you just as soon as they reach us … we 're STILL waiting for a finished version of Hook , ‘ coz we refuse to write full reviews from pre-production , half-finished disks ! |
| 46 | And footballers booked a perm as soon as they got their first team place . |
| 47 | A defence agent said Frost and his friends had intended to move on from the lay-by , opposite Invermoriston Post Office , as soon as they got their Giro cheques . |
| 48 | So you were — but as soon as they put you in my arms I could see you were no use to me ! ’ |
| 49 | Maggie put her hands up to push him away but as soon as they touched his skin her palms seemed to take on a life of their own , moving over the strong muscles , her fingers wanting to curl in the crisp black hair that lightly covered his chest . |
| 50 | Others cash in by selling aircraft as soon as they get them to consortiums of banks and investors — and then lease them back . |
| 51 | as soon as they get it |
| 52 | Cos as soon as they go it 's all gone a bit |
| 53 | As soon as they approached her bed , Joanna greeted them with a mixture of tears and rueful self-reproach . |
| 54 | Tipped for the top by A&R folk as soon as they showed their faces in the capital , their label Phffft ! was snapped up in a deal with Phonogram , and their second single , a four track EP led by ‘ Yesterday Today ’ is out this week . |
| 55 | As soon as they see they got the microphone they go |
| 56 | As soon as they see their names on the leaderboard they worry themselves to death until their name 's gone off the board . |
| 57 | They will be ready to follow the ladder party as soon as they see its last man go through the window . |
| 58 | ‘ They pull 'em down as soon as they see you coming . |
| 59 | ‘ Absolutely no one — they 'll react as soon as they guess I 've left the country . |
| 60 | ‘ As soon as they reported it , Ipuky was informed and I was sent for . ’ |