Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end I decided it did n't matter much where I went as long as it was up . |
| 2 | I see myself as one of these animals , and I await with resignation but with confidence the moment when either I live out my life as providence decrees or I die as prescribed , convinced that I shall thus be useful in two ways , first to France and then to humanity . |
| 3 | I shall enjoy seeing you suffer as I have suffered . ’ |
| 4 | You can sit where you like as long as it is n't in this chair , this armchair , my armchair , the one with the dancing balls splattered loudly across its back and arms , across its stained and silver gut . |
| 5 | But in fact it is not necessarily the case that if each person votes , or decides , according to what he or she perceives as his or her personal interest or wishes , the outcome is the good of all or even of the majority . |
| 6 | Speaking from their Isle of Man home where they live as tax exiles , Sangster 's wife , Susan , firmly denied that the sale of Manton was a result of her husband 's reduced stature in the bloodstock world . |
| 7 | Where they survived as currency down to modern times , as they did in west Africa and locally in south-east Asia , it was only as small change . |
| 8 | The problems could be caused by microscopic organisms called blue-green algae , found in open stretches of fresh water , where they float as ‘ blooms ’ or gather in brightly-coloured scums on the surface . |
| 9 | After one speech in the House of Commons , where he sat as knight of the shire for Warwickshire , Throckmorton was summoned before the king himself . |
| 10 | Ariel , crawled into a shelter of leaves by the sea to the west , clasped Roukoubé to her breast where he snuffled as he nursed . |
| 11 | It 's true that when cuts are put in , however good the editor , they just do n't have the same timbre and tempo ; you do n't get that live atmosphere where it feels as though you 're there . ’ |
| 12 | No high for finishing the marathon if you do n't run through the nerves at the start , the blisters , the soft grey stage of the race where the roadscape does n't change , where it feels as though you have done it all and yet there are still a few miles to go . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose not , ’ Alyssia commented neutrally , then she said with a little more of her customary fire , ‘ although I feel as though I 've gone through my entire life with people doing what they felt was best for me . ’ |
| 14 | Recently , just before I woke up , I had an insight that I perceived as being connected with the Celtic tradition ; I ‘ saw ’ that animal sacrifice in Celtic mythology was a way of buying interaction with the world of spirits , the souls of the animals being the currency used . |
| 15 | ‘ None that I regard as very useful . |
| 16 | The silver threepenny piece that I received as reward was hard earned but the episode taught me a lesson early in life — that good results are only achieved by extra effort . |
| 17 | Now apart from by taking land from the landlords which is pretty in unspecific , all of the others are , are s are straight , very moderate , very limited acquisitions and then if you go on where you 've got ta protect the middle peasant etcetera , then they are really very low key methods , you , you , you would not see that I think as being the return to land reform . |
| 18 | Apart from that I do as I like . |
| 19 | Not that I care as I love my dandelion friend , Tony , more than I love Otley . |
| 20 | Apart from the facts about the different regiments gleaned from the poster on the wall at Lille , I knew no more now than I had as I stood watching England disappear from the back of the ferry . |
| 21 | ‘ So I noticed as I came through . ’ |
| 22 | She was conscious of one undoubted fact : ‘ He was directing all his conversations to Joan Sims at this time , so I felt as though I were being talked at , rather than talked to . ’ |
| 23 | I pulled my skirt up a little but he said he 'd have to see higher than that to make sure my legs were n't bowed at the knees so I did as I was told . |
| 24 | She almost flinched , but somehow her pride rescued her from that , although she felt as though he 'd stuck a knife in her heart and started to revolve it . |
| 25 | Anna supposed that she should then have had another baby , to keep Flora company , but had found that she felt as unlike having another baby as she had once felt like it . |
| 26 | Bernice told herself that it was n't surprising that she felt as though she was being watched . |
| 27 | Her head did not precisely ache , but it felt hollow and somehow precarious ; and she found it hard to make her muscles work so that she felt as though she might trip over her own feet or walk into the furniture . |
| 28 | Grim and forbidding were the two well-used words that came to mind as she looked up at the building for the first time ; but there were no words that could easily describe the helpless terror that she felt as the side-gate opened before them and the ambulance had driven through . |
| 29 | His eyes were fixed on her with such intensity that she felt as if that dark brown gaze were burning her skin . |
| 30 | Not so tall and powerfully built that she felt as though she might break if he so much as touched her . |