Example sentences of "as [pron] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I used the royal ‘ we ’ as I had not asked yet ! ) |
| 2 | We were taken off for a shower — which was welcome as I had n't washed properly since the night before I left London- and then shown our beds in the barrack rooms on the second and third floors . |
| 3 | Jenny , as I had already worked out , was a woman of some means and she clearly was n't bothered by the fact she was having to subsidize me . |
| 4 | Then , for five minutes at least , he was still again , and then , when he knew he was talking with God , his arm went around my shoulder and there came up from the depth of his heart such petitions for men as I had never heard be-fore . |
| 5 | As silently as I could , I began to move away , and as soon as I was clear of the trees , began to run as I had never run before . |
| 6 | I should n't think this boring as I had sometimes done before . |
| 7 | As I 've already pointed out , I had no real television training as such . |
| 8 | Public relations well as I 've already outlined there the actual fiasco surrounding the proposed er share repurchase there was a public relations nightmare form beginning to end . |
| 9 | But by by the same token , as as I 've already set out in in my submission , we we believe there is an urgent need and a justifiable demand in Selby District and that 's partly related to the need to have a distribution of available employment opportunities throughout the district . |
| 10 | Er that is very welcome , and also that there will be help at the weekends because as I 've often reported before , that 's often when things escalate at weekends for some unknown reason . |
| 11 | In fact , I perceived once again , as I have repeatedly done since , that young people — and this applies to girls just as much as to boys — need , almost to the point of desperation , writers , inevitably older , who speak to their generation and in their language , or at least in language which , once they hear it , they perceive to be theirs . |
| 12 | It would be madness for me to refuse you through hurt pride when all I want to do is be with you , as I have just found out . ’ |
| 13 | As I have already pointed out , even so-called ‘ tactical ’ nuclear weapons are in reality indiscriminate in their effect . |
| 14 | Handscomb has served the equivalent of a 15-year notional determinate sentence now , a sentence which , as I have already pointed out , is well in excess of the maximum fixed-term sentence passed for this offence in recent years . |
| 15 | I shall not give way , as I have already done so several times . |
| 16 | Apart from anything else , coffee is not drunk by the Chinese , which makes me very glad I bought my packets of Nescafe , and rather annoyed that I did n't bring more , as I have already used up more than a third of my coffee . |
| 17 | They did not look as though they were suckering in the baleful way that the ordinary stag's-horn sumach does , but as I have not grown either myself yet , I can not vouch for their good behaviour . |
| 18 | Can you please tell me what the rules are as regards holding cash , as I have recently taken out a personal equity plan ? |
| 19 | My idea was partly to make sure of a good time , as I have always had there , and partly to set the tone for my future articles . |
| 20 | No , I took it home , I I was sort of leaving that to you you know , as you say , as you 've just mentioned now that , but no , I thought when you first of you said have n't got the time to put these all the layers of on , you know and |
| 21 | I 'd just like to point out that erm on the street collections as you 've always done before , AvaRag and NovaSports do n't generally get passed , because they do n't actually help anybody in Oxford . |
| 22 | His attention had been fiercely concentrated on the back of the girl as she had slowly walked away , his blue eyes narrowed in appreciation . |
| 23 | She began to regard herself as she had not done before , and what she saw she no longer understood at all . |
| 24 | This young girl enjoyed mixing with others her own age , as she had not done so before now . |
| 25 | AT1 said that she did not notice any difference in this regard but was nevertheless glad of the opportunity which the review had afforded to meet the Head personally , as she had not done so since her interview on appointment some years previously . |
| 26 | Warned that she could only stay for a few moments , Laura had sat down quietly in a chair beside the bed , taking her cousin 's inert , pale hand and praying , as she had never prayed before , that Liz would be able to survive her ordeal . |
| 27 | She ran as she had never run before . |
| 28 | She ran as she had never run before — still clutching the shoe-parcel and the flags . |
| 29 | Doreen Wranklin could n't understand it as she had always paid up on time . |
| 30 | She had promised to take me sailing , and Paula had let her borrow the boat for a few hours , as she had often done before . |