Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [pers pn] 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 | ‘ The vacillating vamp , as you christened her in The Dobblers the other night . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As she joined him in the petit salon he came towards her with a prettily wrapped package in his hands . |
| 11 | I kept seeing Sergia 's face as she held me in the air looked me over . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , as we know them in the modern world , there are virtually no middle classes in 1700 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | This is called dynamic storage allocation because the variables of type PERSON are created as we need them in the program . |
| 17 | Or as they put it in the locker-room , once you 're in , you 're in . |
| 18 | Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | Walsh , who plays Sicknote , says : ‘ The shots of fire exploding flashovers as they call them in the trade were absolutely mind-blowing . |
| 21 | In a pilot experiment subjects attempted to describe films as they watched them in the way described by Hughes and Cole . |
| 22 | His eyes narrowed speculatively as they watched her in the mirror . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Suppose this chap was Alexandra 's special friend , her Significant Other , as they called it in the States , would n't he get a bit peeved if some strange man appeared at the door asking for her ? |
| 25 | The florist had removed his big green apron but the Brigadier had to force him to take off his trilby as he brought him in the door , muttering under his breath , ‘ This is a State office , you know very well … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Donald is desperately ill ! ’ was the first thing she said , as he met her in the hall . |
| 27 | He turned the car , his hands moving swiftly and expertly as he manoeuvred it in the narrow lane . |
| 28 | Henry replied , in an open letter , ‘ It is I ’ , and over the course of no fewer than 63 pages drew a factual , logical and haunting picture of the plight of his beloved Combsburgh , as he perceived it in the winter of 1830/31 . |
| 29 | ' ’ Where God erecteth his church , the devil in the same churchyard will house his chapel ’ , ’ he quoted , as he joined her in the limo . |
| 30 | As he puts it in The Problem of Method : ‘ For us the reality of the collective object rests on recurrence . |