Example sentences of "as [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maid had retired , tossing her head at the thought of such low people as them gyppos having the sauce to interrupt the master at his supper . |
| 2 | She makes and she 's as green as them shelves . |
| 3 | I put me 'and down , an' it slithered up on to it and up me arm as far as me shoulder . |
| 4 | A Potteries child who was brought up by her grandmother and ‘ treated her as me mother ’ remembers how ‘ grandad always used to turn and say , ‘ I 'm not your daddy you know . ’ |
| 5 | The typical tone of memory , however , is very different from this : a special sense of love , even devotion , in the grandchild for a wonderful old lady : ‘ I treated her as me mother ’ , as an abandoned farm-child sent over from Ireland put it ; or a motherless Bolton spinner 's son — ‘ she were a love … |
| 6 | ‘ There 's nowt sloppy about 'im , so let's 'ope 'is work is as good as 'is stride . ’ |
| 7 | He said I 'd be a sort of ape not to get a sort of scholarship as I sort of could if I sort of used my noggin ! |
| 8 | ‘ I shall go to my mother 's as soon as my discharge from the army comes through . ’ |
| 9 | Sinful acts are not Bauthumley 's concern as such , but it is not difficult to see why The Light and Dark Sides of God was regarded as a dangerous work when it appeared to undermine Christian certainties : ‘ I have made God mutable as my self . ’ |
| 10 | Suddenly , as my shoes and socks got soaking wet and frozen , there came an excruciating pain and I cried with the intensity of it . |
| 11 | During the night I visited him every three hours as my vet had told me that if his leg had broken completely it would n't be fair to leave him suffering . |
| 12 | So I try an encourage them that their images and what they chose to make pictures of are as important as my ones . |
| 13 | Worse was to come , as my spade hit something solid that would n't respond to leverage . |
| 14 | Really fantastic ; sixteen guest bedrooms , each with a bathroom as large as my sitting-room . ’ |
| 15 | It was of course my mother , and she asked me the same questions as my neighbour . |
| 16 | As soon as I cut out brown bread my stomach cramps went , and all my unpleasant bowel-related symptoms went also , as well as my headaches , sore tongue and dandruff . |
| 17 | Is it as my uncle says ? he wondered . |
| 18 | ‘ No officer living who has seen so little service as my Lord Marlborough is so fit for great commands , ’ commented William prophetically after the 40-year-old general had , in the autumn of 1690 , rapidly captured Cork and Kinsale . |
| 19 | It 's not as bad as my head but it 's sore , |
| 20 | After a while she explained that she was in love with someone else — not hopelessly ineligible , but not nearly as suitable as my father- and her parents had refused to allow her to see the man . |
| 21 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
| 22 | My breath rasped in my throat , and a slight light-headedness I had started to feel owing to hyperoxygenating earlier waned as my muscles took up the slack of the extra power in my blood . |
| 23 | ‘ In musical terms , as my tutor explained more than once , temperament is a system of adjusting tones of an instrument to adapt the scale for all keys ! |
| 24 | That do not know my past as my sleep does . |
| 25 | All I was really clear about was that this time I would go on as long as my lungs and muscles would function . |
| 26 | When I took a rolled-up sample of legal tender , printed by the Royal Mint , applied one end to my right nostril , placed a restraining finger upon my left nostril , rested the other end of the said note upon a mirror or any other shiny reflective surface , upon which was displayed a slender tranche or ‘ line ’ of exotic Colombian snuff , and breathed in as deeply as my lungs would allow , I was merely relaxing in a manner by no means untypical amongst overworked show-business operatives . |
| 27 | So as my red skims the pocket , he tries very hard to say ‘ Bad luck ’ . |
| 28 | I bit back a tart reply as my master tugged at my sleeve and we tactfully took our leave . |
| 29 | I closed my eyes and grasped the legs as my master picked up the corpse by the shoulders . |
| 30 | I chose as my subject the person of the Buddha , tried to relate his teaching to Christians , expressed my deep admiration for him and pleaded for a more tolerant and positive attitude towards the religion which he had founded . |