Example sentences of "soon as [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the clothes on the line were frozen solid , as the water in them had iced as soon as we had put them out . |
| 2 | He was the only one of the game players not to have fooled around quick-drawing our paint guns as soon as we had got them . |
| 3 | But as soon as we had found our voice again , we were once more interrupted by visits from Berlin . |
| 4 | We 're going to retire here as soon as we 've sold our house . ’ |
| 5 | Anyway , yeah , and so , right I go to Bunnie and I , can you take me home yes , cos I 'm supposed to be going to a pizza to have pizza round my friend 's house , he goes , mm , they 're going , oh we 're starving , you have to go round to somebody 's house , I said he goes well I 'll take you stra , I 'll take you as soon as we 've had something to eat . |
| 6 | As soon as we have found him another set of legs he 'll be out and about again , do you think he 'll mind walking on his hands for now ? |
| 7 | As soon as they had made their way back , Bigwig came across to them from the bushes at the edge of the path . |
| 8 | As soon as they had emptied their tiny cups of black coffee , Nathan had settled the bill and they had walked quickly back down the hill to the waterfront . |
| 9 | But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas . |
| 10 | Those boys ( they were few , for academic impulses withered and died in the Burleigh air ) who aimed at Advanced Level , or even university , had always trickled off into the state system as soon as they had taken their Ordinary Levels , if not before . |
| 11 | you see , I mean what they do is soon as they 've kicked them out in the mental homes they 're having to put them in to erm , I mean erm , there are people who are not able to be on their own , I mean the ones they 've kicked out are people that have been depressed and say well you 've got to find , get your family to help , I mean , when you 've got somebody depressed in your family you try and help them |
| 12 | Desert Island Discs has permeated the national psyche to such an extent , people start compiling their own list almost as soon as they 've bought their first LP … |
| 13 | no , but as soon as they 've got their thingy in the they should be off . |
| 14 | I also got to hear how she intended to jack in her job at the insurance brokers just as soon as they 'd taught her how to use the word-processor and go and work somewhere interesting like in an ad agency or for a travel agent . |
| 15 | Miss Evans did n't eat with them but stood by the table like a waitress in a restaurant , taking the plates to the sink as soon as they 'd cleared them and sweeping up crumbs round their chairs before they had finished drinking their milk . |
| 16 | Set up special links only as necessary and cancel them as soon as they have served their purpose . |
| 17 | So many that , er yeah , so many of them that soon as one 's sold somebody else sells another one . |
| 18 | As soon as she had said it she knew that it was true and that made her sadder and crosser . |
| 19 | She kicked herself as soon as she had said it . |
| 20 | It was too confrontational , she realised as soon as she had said it , seeing something spark in his eyes , the instinctive , age-old masculine response to the sort of rejection men would always interpret as a challenge . |
| 21 | As soon as she had achieved her purpose , she would see that the boat was returned . |
| 22 | She , of course , had plunged , dived , tumbled , plummeted heart-first straight into desperate love for Miles as soon as she had seen him . |
| 23 | Was this what she had felt as soon as she had seen him — a man who would interfere with her life ? |
| 24 | Carlie believed everyone was out to do her in , and she had disliked Mrs Mason , the foster mother , as soon as she had seen her standing in the doorway . |
| 25 | Claudia looked at Dana 's angry face and knew that if Roman had proposed she would have told her , triumphantly , as soon as she had seen her , accident or no accident . |
| 26 | He would grab a completed section of the overall plan from Mark 's private secretary just as soon as she had typed it , and dash off to his own office down the corridor to study it carefully many times over , before taking it along to Muldoon to keep him in the picture . |
| 27 | ‘ Our mother says she does n't know where he puts it all , he 's so thin , ’ Carrie said , and as soon as she had spoken it struck her that she had never talked to them about her mother before . |
| 28 | As soon as she had introduced them , the doctor began to ask Moore a great many questions . |
| 29 | Valerie Cass had left rather petulantly as soon as she had finished her gin , and Malcolm Harris , breathing imprecations against Michael Banks , had gone soon after ( without of course , buying a round ) . |
| 30 | As soon as she had finished her coffee she stood up . |