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

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1 Therefore once you everything settles and you switch it on at night or in the day , anytime , as soon as somebody opens the door , the bell will go off .
2 We require some evidence of loss , either from a vet or an accountant , and as soon as we receive the reports we look at them speedily and with sympathy .
3 However , as soon as we reached the interview for the home/school post a debate on the school and the community began again as shown from the notes I took where the main participants in the discussion were Phil Barlow ( the Deputy Head for Curriculum ) , Chris Cousins ( the Deputy Head for Community ) , Ann Thomas ( the Community Adviser for the LEA ) and Father Curtis ( the Chairman of the Governors ) .
4 As soon as we heard the engine his grip tightened .
5 ‘ So of course , ’ said Bartlemas , ‘ as soon as we heard the ghastly news about Marius , we just had to rush round here … ’
6 As soon as we received the tree preservation order we rushed down to pi-n i-t on the tree .
7 As soon as we spotted the advertisement for the lighthouse we were intrigued .
8 As soon as we got the report we suspected — well , we knew , I suppose .
9 and I said as soon as we got the opportunity of moving away we would do , and we searched all over the erm , when it come to , went into Lincolnshire , went into Wales
10 This is were double bed tuck comes into its own , because the single needle per tuck rule no longer applies as soon as we bring the front bed into work and carrying stitches .
11 It consists in pointing out the fact that , as soon as we use the stages as a type of classification , we find we have more doubtful borderline cases than typical ones , because of the great variation of social systems in history in different parts of the world .
12 As soon as we have the results of the trials we shall publish them .
13 As soon as we entered the house we heard a low moaning and , on opening the living-room door , saw our landlady rocking herself backwards and forwards in her chair .
14 As soon as we entered the restaurant the proprietor came out to us from the kitchen , rubbing his hands oilier on a tea towel .
15 At weekends we cycled there under the hot sun in the early afternoon , not minding the heat at all because we knew that as soon as we arrived the cool water would welcome us .
16 The number one will automatically light up as soon as we activate the circuit and the current increases gradually as the numbers get progressively higher .
17 A sprinkling of members was busy ordering drinks and as soon as we approached the bar , there was a chorus of ‘ Welcome back , Captain ! ’ or ‘ Good to see you , Bill ’ .
18 As soon as we see the scripts , we start planning , look in our nasty books or ask Peter Salt our nursing advisor , ’ says Jan. skin for stitching scenes is made from a gelatine based substance which is coloured and moulded on to the actor .
19 Subjects are given a particular word — let us say the word lead — and then they listen to a pair of sentences and press a button as soon as they hear the target word .
20 But as soon as they hear The Old Rugged Cross they 're fine again , ’ he said .
21 As soon as they saw the car , which had a police sign on the roof , they quietened down .
22 They took ship as soon as they saw the way things were going in 1934 .
23 Roberts 's ankle appeared broken , but the Chelsea players were not interested in retribution and the club , as soon as they knew the injury was less serious , put a message on the electronic scoreboard : an example of public relations from which others could learn .
24 In London , the Compact has been so successful that children who would previously have left as soon as they reached the school-leaving age of sixteen , are deciding to stay on at school to take further exams .
25 The three boys had always assumed , as soon as they reached the age for such assumptions , that Charles had married Liz in order to provide the three motherless babes with a proper family life .
26 But as soon as they reached the living room , she saw his face clearly in the light of the candles .
27 As soon as they reached the Embankment Father Watson began to speak in measured tones .
28 The servants themselves were increasingly and overwhelmingly women — between 1841 and 1881 the percentage of men in domestic offices and personal services in Britain fell from about 20 to about 12 — so that the ideal bourgeois household consisted of a male lord dominating a number of hierarchically graded females , all the more so as male children tended to leave the home as they grew up , or even — among the British upper classes — as soon as they reached the age of boarding school .
29 As soon as they heard the angelus ring they gathered from all over the big house to the supper table .
30 As soon as they finished the first course Rodney raised his wine glass .
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