Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | You make a cup of tea for a friend who has called around to express their condolences only to find as you pour it out , that there is no tea in the pot . |
| 2 | Ripe Oregon strawberries are especially selected as we feel it best compliments the rich cream flavour of Häagen-Dazs . |
| 3 | Several times she caught him looking at her unguardedly , and heat flared in his eyes , to be instantly banked as he brought it under control with his iron will . |
| 4 | Councillor I I had to admit that I 'm slightly lost in that one A now ends as I understand it with the roman numeral three that was proposed in the labour amendment . |
| 5 | Escort Revisited Can it really be as duff as we said it was ? 64 |
| 6 | honourable member what he 's really saying as I understand it Madam Speaker is there 's too much bureaucracy and the bureaucracy is going to prevent anybody acting because they 're all overlapping , they 're all paid out of presumably the public purse as well , there 's a there 's a enormous number of public off officials that is preventing er a a clear direct , exes executive arm . |
| 7 | Talvi had grinned , his wolfish , loose , laughterless grin , and brought his chair up straight again , clamped his knees together , thrown back his shoulders with an emphasis that was , Caterina now felt as she pieced it together , insolent . |
| 8 | So the council were faced were having to take a legal action because there was a whole claims that because the land was so old , nobody knew who technically owned it and it was n't registered as we owning it until nineteen sixty six , there was legal disputes about that . |
| 9 | Erm so I think it was probably quite well attended though there were a vast number of these green files left at the end so may be it was n't as well attended as I thought it had been . |
| 10 | But now Taylor , who worked with Ward at Watford and Aston Villa , has written to City chairman Douglas Craig asking if Ward can help England this summer and Craig and the City board have immediately agreed as they believe it is a great honour for the club . |
| 11 | Listen to him/her say a text or story slowly , then listen as he/she speeds it up in successive repetitions . |
| 12 | Numbly , she followed him to the ladder at the back of the yacht , then watched as he ignored it and dived powerfully into the indigo water , his body slicing cleanly with hardly a splash before he struck out with a strong , fast crawl towards the far distant shore . |
| 13 | She pulled her jumper off and handed it to him , then watched as he spread it out and laid the dead animal on it . |
| 14 | She did n't know how long she lay there , but when the door opened she started , then relaxed as she saw it was her grandmother . |
| 15 | Gloria never sunbathed as she thought it was ageing ; she applied the same effect out of a bottle . |