Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost as soon as we reached our cruising level we heard a German voice , ‘ D- , I am IMC , I must descent . ’ |
| 2 | However , as soon as we reached our new vantage I understood the real reason why he had wanted to move . |
| 3 | Although we did not appear to have a direct hit in any vital part ( and the engines were spared ) as soon as we dropped our bombs , and the photo-flash meant we had a picture of where we had left our load , we turned for home . |
| 4 | Initially our agents had no idea of who he was , but as I 'm sure you know it 's standard procedure to take photographs , and as soon as we compared them and a descrip-tion with our files , we were in no doubt as to who he was . ’ |
| 5 | Ever since you went away we have been unable to get the fire to burn ; even if we borrowed a light from the neighbours it went out as soon as we brought it in . " |
| 6 | As soon as we realized we had such tremendous support and you know er right we 'll give this a go and we 're gon na win . |
| 7 | ‘ We had the mare to break early this year , ’ said rider Barbara Gallimore , ‘ and knew as soon as we saw her that she would win Olympia . |
| 8 | As soon as we met there was a marvellous rapport . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Royston was a cold , sombre place which blighted our spirits as soon as we glimpsed it . |
| 11 | Jennifer , of Dewsbury , Yorks , said : ‘ As soon as we divorced we both realised we 'd made a mistake . ’ |
| 12 | As soon as we arrived we were shown a dead chick . |
| 13 | As soon as we removed ourselves from eyries at Television Centre and Broadcasting House , people began saying to us that the key subject we had to look at was one of portrayal and representation on air . |
| 14 | The boys did n't stop or even call out that they were sorry , but went charging down the lane as soon as they recovered their balance after the collision . |
| 15 | Along with Lieutenant Bill Lloyd he had perfected the techniques for getting ashore among rocks ; but now Bill Lloyd was badly wounded , hit in the neck almost as soon as they began their grenade-tossing dash , firing tommy-guns from the hip . |
| 16 | Lenin 's confidence that the soviets would provide the country with a revolutionary form of government that could function without bureaucracy was proved ill-founded almost as soon as they began their work . |
| 17 | Anyway , as soon as they saw me they scampered over and said , ‘ We know you , you 're that Derrick May are n't you ? ' |
| 18 | At Bolter 's Lock , a crowd singing , as soon as they saw us , songs from my show … |
| 19 | And erm but the trouble was as soon as they saw us come , they were right behind us going like this with their horns , you know ! |
| 20 | As soon as they knew I was in prison they were trying to get involved and everything . |
| 21 | There had been a few times , with my accent , I 'd been called names , but as soon as they knew I was Jewish I had a hundred mothers and brothers and fathers to take care of me . |
| 22 | ‘ And as soon as they realised it was an emergency , the offending drain was fitted with a plug . ’ |
| 23 | As soon as they realised my charge was arson I was left to sit in the cubicle : everybody else disappeared . |
| 24 | and er I mean and these were three young girls , they only just started to work and yet they 'd got a car and as soon as they finished they they were going on this picnic |
| 25 | And as soon as they finished their feed and they had some drinks from the small tins as well , we used to put them one by one back in these boxes where the eggs were and they used to settle down straight off then after they had their feed and and they used to erm settle down no trouble at all . |
| 26 | It meant that she started off at an advantage , for as soon as they imagined they had caused her misery they found that they were only confirming her grim and ribald idea of the way things would always be . |
| 27 | And footballers booked a perm as soon as they got their first team place . |
| 28 | A defence agent said Frost and his friends had intended to move on from the lay-by , opposite Invermoriston Post Office , as soon as they got their Giro cheques . |
| 29 | Maggie put her hands up to push him away but as soon as they touched his skin her palms seemed to take on a life of their own , moving over the strong muscles , her fingers wanting to curl in the crisp black hair that lightly covered his chest . |
| 30 | As soon as they approached her bed , Joanna greeted them with a mixture of tears and rueful self-reproach . |