Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I wrote on this page recently , opera is barely a living art form any longer . |
| 2 | So I 'm not creeping back for my job but anything erm it 's not that and erm But the lads in the lodge sometimes you 've got to and er I 've got a bit of er well a speery voice you know rough so sometimes I get a little bit of control on them and erm also as I said about these chaps that are working , erm we 're not blind , we know what 's happening and we 've got sympathy even with them . |
| 3 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 4 | However , I think it it to re-stress again it remains the county council 's view in the context of the advice in P P G seven that most most development erm which is going to serve to promote diversification in rural areas should in fact be directed to and located within and adjacent to existing settlements rural settlements which is where , as I said before most people actually do live and it maintains a close relationship between the jobs provided and the residence of people , and that that level of allocation appropriate level of allocation is in fact something for the local er planning authorities to decide through their development plans and to make adequate provision for it . |
| 5 | ‘ I threw them all away a couple of weeks ago as soon as I came across that letter from Parkin , ’ Lancaster murmured . |
| 6 | For once in my life there was no need to believe as I did or act as I chose for any reasons other than that I was personally convinced it was right . |
| 7 | I was spitting with fear and frustration as I yanked on some clothes and flung myself into the control area . |
| 8 | I never wanted my Mum so much in my life as I did at that moment . |
| 9 | I think it is best to suck it off with one of those tiny battery-powered vacuum cleaners you can get for about a tenner these days , as I did in this case . |
| 10 | Their reward could be to find ( as I found in another country ) that chemistry is the most popular subject in the curriculum . |
| 11 | Well as you heard in that report , there 's has been strong criticism of the inquest system , which has led to deaths being investigated thouands of miles from where they happened . |
| 12 | erm it may be that erm because of my generation , but you do n't get the same sort of personalities nowadays as you did in those days , erm Mr for instance he was , he was a most benign sort of erm fellow of what one would describe as a real gentleman mm , mind you he used to have his paddies at times but |
| 13 | As she advanced into this room full of teenagers , pretending not to smell the rich aroma of Acapulco Gold , gracefully rippling the caftan of pink flowered silk which she considered appropriately hip casual wear , the kids all stopped what they were doing and collected admiringly around her . |
| 14 | Later as she lay in that bed , after she had eaten a meal in a small cheap cafe in New Oxford Street , she squirmed between sheets of a kind she had never seen before , purple knitted nylon . |
| 15 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 16 | Noreen O'Neil looked good as she pranced across that stage to the catchy Irish tune . |
| 17 | Such identity and unity as she possessed in these years was essentially the identity and unity of a system of power , though one beginning to decay . |
| 18 | Lance Percival was there to hear Ken look at Miss Sims as she arrived on that boundary between the action and the production . |
| 19 | As she moved in that direction , she glanced into the kitchen and caught sight of the clock . |
| 20 | As we glanced at each other , we shuddered with apprehension . |
| 21 | The first hour proved fairly turbulent , as we skimmed under some cumulus build-ups . |
| 22 | As we listened to several playbacks in the control-room , this approach was certainly paying dividends in the slow movement , with its particular mood of hushed reminiscence . |
| 23 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 24 | As we went down some steps and along a dark passageway , open to the sky , I recalled Maria 's visit to this terrible place , the night they 'd had Raoul here , the night Arsenio had wanted to kill Raoul and Osvaldo had forgiven him . |
| 25 | But as we looked at each other I had a strange sensation . |
| 26 | As we saw in this chapter , more recently it has been found that this account of processing can not be correct for at least three reasons : ( a ) there is evidence that syntactic and semantic processing is not delayed until the end of the clause ; ( b ) there is evidence that information about the specific wording is retained after the end of a clause if that clause contains nonspecific words which subsequent clauses will disambiguate ; ( c ) specific wording will also be retained if it has pragmatic significance . |
| 27 | But fair trade as we saw from that sketch , involves a lot more than just fair wages . |
| 28 | That is to say , it assumes the hierarchical erm conception of God 's world and the ethic of obedience , which , as we saw from that prose passage , underlies the conception of the fall as the central sin . |
| 29 | We gave them to an Embassy official as we passed through that city , en route to military installations near Fallujiah . |
| 30 | There was something like an appeal in his eyes as we gazed at each other . |