Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I get her into a fresh pair of rubber knickers I feel something cold on my face . |
| 2 | Apparently as long as I get it on a P C disk , five inch |
| 3 | Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them . |
| 4 | That 's the fundamental as far as I see it of a pension fund . |
| 5 | There 's no throttle as you know it on a modern car . |
| 6 | We were faced , as you reminded me with a projected twenty-four million pound shortfall . |
| 7 | They used to These they used to be a round used to be round you know and not very used to hit them as you hit them with a stick you see , they used to wheel wheel round and round . |
| 8 | There 's nothing wrong with a bun as long as you decorate it with a hair accessory . |
| 9 | I remember once thinking my mother was stark raving bonkers as she regaled me with a tale of the time she scrimped for six months to buy a pair of elbow length , white kid evening gloves , which set her back the equivalent of two weeks ' wages . |
| 10 | ‘ They 've got no consideration , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke stormed as she met us with a supply of dusters and aerosols and impregnated cloths . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're in here , ’ Ven remarked , taking up her case and heading for the door on the left of the French windows — and as she followed him into a pleasant bedroom , ‘ With luck , by the time you 've unpacked , the waiter will be here with some tea . ’ |
| 12 | She quickened her pace , almost bringing about the catastrophe she feared , as she hurried him through a doorless opening into the outhouse beyond . |
| 13 | She made Fred see himself only as she described him as a man who was deliberately making his now pregnant wife unhappy . |
| 14 | Then , as she skewered him with a look of pure detestation , he reached out suddenly and caught her by the wrists . |
| 15 | ‘ As soon as we got him to a doctor — which took some time — it was discovered that Major Maxim must have held the ammonia under our man 's nose while pouring some odourless spirit — quite possibly strong vodka — onto the blindfold in order to produce the stinging sensation . ’ |
| 16 | The carpet sucked the soles of our shoes as we followed him through a drunken , grasping audience towards a small dressing room to the left of the stage , upon which Tanya was enjoying bananas for dessert . |
| 17 | When computers , as we understand them in a modern sense , first came into use in the early nineteen-fifties , they were huge , expensive and unreliable . |
| 18 | Lionan , the dandy , was talking behind his hand to the brutal Mullach , who was gulping his beer moodily and staring at the serving maids as they passed him in a bustling procession . |
| 19 | It was a royal monopoly , and an earlier King Arkesilas is depicted on a Spartan vase of the mid-sixth century supervising his officials as they weighed it on a man-size balance ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate vi . |
| 20 | He answered with a minute shake of his head and she obeyed , sitting on to watch the fantastic skill with which they wove and rewove their patterns , each keeping the strings taut and symmetrical even as they transformed them into a completely new shape . |
| 21 | Even more so as it caught me with a mouthful of pancake and hot sauced prawns . |
| 22 | It is significant in this respect that Galileo 's drawing of the moon 's surface as he saw it through a telescope contains some craters that do not in fact exist there . |
| 23 | Jobless Shepherd told a court his labrador Flash was savaged by a pit bull terrier as he took her for a late-night walk after drinking at a local club . |
| 24 | As he took her on a guided tour of the eight-bedroomed mansion , the Prince asked her to organize the interior decoration . |
| 25 | Guido sighed and seemed to relax a little , as he told her with a light smile , ‘ In fact , I 'm very pleased . |
| 26 | ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’ |
| 27 | The rest clambered into their saddles , and followed him unquestioningly as he led them at a canter downslope to where the hills opened out and patches of ground could be seen where the snow was melting . |
| 28 | He did n't speak as he led her through a stone-floored hallway to a sweeping staircase . |
| 29 | His vital interest was exploring the countryside with his school friend Arthur Hardy , as he records it in A Sportsman 's Tale : ‘ We had spent the best ten years of life together and after that saw one another about twice a year … |
| 30 | And , as he describes it in a very striking page , suddenly had what he calls a , a very acute sense of unendurable individual loneliness of man , the acute , an acute sense of the pathos of the situation of the human individual , somehow inherently lonely , shut up within himself , undefended , against the blows of fate . |