Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] [pron] see the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | As soon as they saw the car , which had a police sign on the roof , they quietened down . |
| 3 | They took ship as soon as they saw the way things were going in 1934 . |
| 4 | This is important when the fish are in the swim and perhaps ready to bite as soon as they see the bait sinking through the water . |
| 5 | But as soon as she saw the tooth , she lost interest . |
| 6 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 7 | ‘ She told me she had made it up on the spot as soon as she saw the bloke . ’ |
| 8 | She hit her and at the same time as she hit her she virtually came to a er , a stop because of the fact she wa she started to brake as soon as she saw the the children appear er , but ne never the less contact was made but thankfully for her and for the child the the contact was a a at no significant speed , the child was just knocked off her feet and she got up and waved to Mrs and said I 'm alright and she ran off and she was away before Mrs had time , even to undo her safety belt to get out of the car . |
| 9 | She also left the book undisturbed but felt , as soon as she saw the title , a further fellow feeling with S. Kettering . |
| 10 | She just went haywire as soon as she saw the instructor . |
| 11 | She stopped as soon as she saw the effect of her words . |
| 12 | As soon as he saw the tongues , he knew . |
| 13 | As soon as he saw the horizon , Jack centralised the joystick and rudder , getting back to level flight . |
| 14 | He moved as soon as he saw the first bead of sweat break on her pallid face , and then he was almost too late . |
| 15 | But they did not have to search far for the Bishop 's secretary : as soon as he saw the pageant wagon , he bore down on it . |
| 16 | As soon as I saw the file , I knew it was the one I had stolen from Joe , and I knew that this man knew my convict . |
| 17 | Despair overtakes me as soon as I see the dreaded trolleys jammed together ; I always manage to pick one with a crab-like action ; my heart sinks and culinary amnesia sets in somewhere between the tinned fruit and dried pasta . |