Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.

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1 He gave me a self-conscious grin and then yelped as someone thumped him in the back .
2 It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s .
3 I knew as soon as I saw it in the garden sale catalogue , it was unmistakeable . ’
4 So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force .
5 As I put it in the course of the argument , and as I sincerely believe , ‘ good parenting involves giving minors as much rope as they can handle without an unacceptable risk that they will hang themselves . ’
6 As I placed them in the water , the bone-china cups and saucers became first glass then nothing ; the water was cold as a glacier .
7 I said as soon as I see it in the paper oh that looks nice .
8 I was very frightened as I remembered something in the Book of Remembering : ‘ In those days there were trees … ‘
9 ‘ The vacillating vamp , as you christened her in The Dobblers the other night . ’
10 The popular myth paints a homely picture of the Queen Mother ducking around Diana as she schooled her in the subtle arts of royal protocol while the Queen 's senior lady-in-waiting , Lady Susan Hussey took the young woman aside for tuition in regal history .
11 As she joined him in the petit salon he came towards her with a prettily wrapped package in his hands .
12 I kept seeing Sergia 's face as she held me in the air looked me over .
13 Besides having confidence in his artistic and physical abilities , he had a great passion for Nature as she showed herself in the Lake District which not only initiated his venture but maintained it all his life .
14 She glanced down at her hand , wondering yet again why the memory of that day should be so insistent tonight , then her lovely face became expressionless as she wrapped herself in the familiar cloak of indifference .
15 Paula looked at him wickedly as she settled herself in the front passenger seat .
16 There was a nice cool breeze wafting up from the river as she settled herself in the shelter of the huge willow tree , at the water 's edge .
17 When we reached Dunkil we could have done two things , we could have said to the Bible class , We had a marvellous journey up and told them all about the glory of God as we saw him in the mountains , or we could have said , We almost had an accident on our way up here .
18 However , as we know them in the modern world , there are virtually no middle classes in 1700 .
19 Although there were thousands of lesser and hundreds of brown noddies on Cousin in October , it can not be easy to assess the population size , because with no positive ‘ summer season ’ as we know it in the temperate zones , many birds can be found breeding almost throughout the year .
20 It is true that there is a distinction between art as it is used develop mentally in schools and art as we know it in the world , but for most people is n't art what we knew it as in school ?
21 This is going to be great , I said to Taff as we settled ourselves in the trench and set up the Bren gun .
22 This is called dynamic storage allocation because the variables of type PERSON are created as we need them in the program .
23 Or as they put it in the locker-room , once you 're in , you 're in .
24 Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd .
25 Gill and Jackson go on to identify eight ‘ black and mixed race couples ’ , seven ‘ mixed race ’ children and three black children , and use this sample to demonstrate that racial identity confusion , as they found it in the transracially placed children , could also be found in black children in black families and ‘ mixed race ’ children in ‘ mixed race ’ families : ‘ They provide an interesting comparison … because … same race placements are increasingly regarded as the ideal by social workers … and it is in the black and mixed race couples that ( it is said ) the child will come to develop a strong racial identity ’ ( p. 129 ) .
26 Characteristics of groups , like the characteristics of species , are thus considered by most theorists today to be the result of the selection of genes as they manifest themselves in the individuals comprising populations ( G. C. Williams 1966 ; Lewontin 1970 ; E. O. Wilson 1975 ) .
27 Walsh , who plays Sicknote , says : ‘ The shots of fire exploding flashovers as they call them in the trade were absolutely mind-blowing .
28 In a pilot experiment subjects attempted to describe films as they watched them in the way described by Hughes and Cole .
29 His eyes narrowed speculatively as they watched her in the mirror .
30 There entered her mind a memory of the feast day of the Madonna della Bruna ; it fell in July in the time of the fierce lion sun , as they called it in the hills , and yet the shrine attracted crowds from all Ninfania and all around .
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