Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It will suit as much as them to have the fight later because it will give John that little bit more time to prepare after having his jaw broken in his last fight . ’ |
| 2 | Well none of the others looked as young as them did they ? |
| 3 | Just as everyone took it for granted that the young Scot was on the point of fulfilling the potential she had shown in the amateur game , so she stopped in her tracks . |
| 4 | Ari held Nathan 's hand as everyone greeted the dawn of the Solstice Day . |
| 5 | The pragmatist might suggest that precision is fine only so long as everyone understands the term : in fact , Pulex irritans is less obviously a flea , than ‘ flea ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ There are two thirds of the season left and it 's not as cut and dried as everyone thinks , ’ he claimed . |
| 7 | He mentions Home Office research suggesting that crime is not as bad as everyone thinks , but he does not mention any of the other analyses and carefully toes the party line . |
| 8 | Are conditions there as primitive as everyone says ? ’ |
| 9 | and then there 's the as everyone says the commercialism coming up to Christmas it 's |
| 10 | New England in the Fall is quite as beautiful as everyone says but the weather is fickle — we arrived in a sunny 82°F and left in a foggy 36°F . |
| 11 | If you believe in public transport , as everyone says they do , this development is inescapable and very desirable . |
| 12 | ‘ Lord , our Mass is over , ’ the choir sang in sweet , lilting voices as everyone walked down the hill into town once more . |
| 13 | Kendall stormed : ‘ The players are letting themselves down as well as everyone connected with this club . |
| 14 | As far as everyone knew , he had been the last person to see Zambia at the Club . |
| 15 | Teachers were government employees , as everyone knew , but nobody called them servants . |
| 16 | The main complaint was that the whole thing was a fraud , which could be proved because , as everyone knew … leprechauns canna write ! |
| 17 | The afternoon had been declared a local holiday , as everyone knew , and it would be a fitting finale to the year 's thoroughbred racing programme at Assiniboia Downs . |
| 18 | Had he not , as everyone knew , single-handedly raised and led an Arab army against the Turks ? |
| 19 | The BBC planned to give the film a third airing on what would have been the admiral 's eightieth birthday , and when this became known we were approached by Lord Brabourne , Mountbatten 's son-in-law , to say that his cousin Prince Charles who , as everyone knew , adored his uncle , wanted to pay him a personal tribute . |
| 20 | He recalls how God visited him with sickness , as he does others , and how he suffered a ‘ wyld infirmytie ’ , as everyone knew , that ‘ me owt of my selfe cast and threw ’ . |
| 21 | The natives were treacherous people , as everyone knew , ungodly and faithless , and their early shows of friendship were nothing but a ruse to lull the pioneers into a false feeling of security , so that they could ensnare them in their false enchantments , pounce on them unawares and kill them while they slept . |
| 22 | If any BW officer had reservations about the project they could have phoned me on 10th or 11th June , particularly as everyone knew the work was scheduled to start on the 12th . |
| 23 | By 9.30am the campsite was buzzing with anticipation as everyone made sure that their equipment was working . |
| 24 | Yes , sea-trout had indeed returned to the murky river Cart but not via the Clyde as everyone thought . |
| 25 | And then really ‘ overdetermined ’ with Barry 's mother , Sheila , confiding her lifelong secret to Terry and Billy Corkhill that Barry 's father was not , as everyone thought , her first husband ! |
| 26 | ‘ My dear , I must tell you , so amUsing ’ , one whispers to the other , ‘ Monsieur *** de *** , FAR from being happily married as everyone thought , apparently spends the ENTIRE time when he 's in London clad in very ODD lederhosen in some pizzeria opposite the Knightsbridge barracks picking up little leather boys . ’ |
| 27 | Instead the Army welcomes the differences among the British , as long as everyone acknowledges a fundamental allegiance to Queen and country . |
| 28 | Moreover , the species involved , as everyone acknowledges , are rather special . |
| 29 | Within seconds , it seemed , the casualty-room was full of people , all working with a kind of controlled intensity as everyone swung quietly into action . |
| 30 | ‘ Is this one of the wines you import , Mr Hepwood ? ’ she asked — and suddenly , as everyone looked a trace amused , any tension she had imagined to be there magically disappeared . |