Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The friar turned as someone tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 2 | He gave me a self-conscious grin and then yelped as someone thumped him in the back . |
| 3 | And so on , as I get her to the bedroom and changed again and into bed . |
| 4 | I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin . |
| 5 | It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s . |
| 6 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 7 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
| 8 | I knew as soon as I saw it in the garden sale catalogue , it was unmistakeable . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Too quickly , for my mother looked at me as I put them on the table . |
| 11 | It 's alright in that light as soon as I put it on the line it looks peculiar ! |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | As I questioned her during the session , Maxine described to me a life as Martha , a fisherman 's wife in a small seaport in the late eighteenth century . |
| 14 | As I followed him through the doorway the porter whispered , " Get your braces undone , sir , do n't keep him waiting . " |
| 15 | As I followed him across the road , he roared off-straight through green traffic lights and into the distance . |
| 16 | As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself . |
| 17 | She seemed more beautiful than ever , and her manner to me was very pleasant , as I took her to the house in London where Miss Havisham had arranged for her to stay . |
| 18 | For example , I might decide the angle of light on my desk is not as I require it on the basis of assessing the illumination and the lamp which is the source of it . |
| 19 | As soon as I told her about the things that had happened , she knew . |
| 20 | As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’ |
| 21 | As I follow her into the front room someone whispers to Rufus : ‘ She got him under her thumb , I think . ’ |
| 22 | Erm the point that you put to me I think two or three questions ago wa was related as I understood it to the the alignment and the network of the lanes . |
| 23 | The clock on the mantelpiece chimed the half-hour , seven thirty , as I walked her to the door . |
| 24 | We wotchered each other as I led him across the road . |
| 25 | Aye , the , the , as I tell you about the . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Sir , this is the last day as I understand it of the greenbelt enquiry . |
| 28 | So it 's just simply to er comment about the the future work that 's gon na be done by Glanmole er , the work of investigation as I understand it at the end of that first section . |
| 29 | Turning now very briefly to the H One D the Greater York issue , clearly the comments I 've made about the calculations for York have a knock on effect for our position on Greater York , the Greater York figures as I understand it from the County Council are based on a one hundred percent migration assumption , if the technical difference between us er we are right then we believe clearly the Greater York figure should be increased by an appropriate amount , and the we 've suggested the increased cut should be seven hundred er relating to the city itself I ca n't calculate with any great accuracy what the figure for the surrounding parts of Greater York might be , but it would be we suspect only another one to two hundred more on top of that , therefore that underst explains the reason why the City Council suggests that the Greater York should be increased to the ten four figure from the nine seven . |
| 30 | It is erm alleged , it is to be alleged as I understand it by the er defendant relying on Mr opinion that the business would have failed in any event er because of the plaintiff 's general lack of experience in this trade and what is described as a lack of financial expertise or caution er to which the availability of extra money as envisaged in the original proposal , would have made absolutely no difference . |