Example sentences of "[pers pn] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've only read Wuthering Heights of theirs as it happens , and I was n't too keen on parts of that . |
| 2 | Fig 78 It is dangerous to be positioned behind the board and rig , because the wave will throw them towards you as it passes . |
| 3 | It is not fair to expect your local delicatessen to do it for you as it takes a long time to slice the whole ham and Parma must be cut thinly . |
| 4 | This aside , the Tropical Swimming Paradise is an excellent place , forcing you as it does , to revert to the age of ten and act accordingly . |
| 5 | You could feel the floor trembling beneath you as it turned on the power and climbed . ’ |
| 6 | I hope it works as well for you as it has me . |
| 7 | When knitting your samples did you notice that although the back bed was making the pattern , the design actually shows on the work facing you as it comes down between the beds ? |
| 8 | So heavy it would crush you as it pushed from side to side . |
| 9 | Pet Plan has a policy called RIDER PLAN ( FREEFONE 0800 282250 ) which would be ideal for you as it aims at regular riders who do not own their own horse or pony . |
| 10 | Your profile is coming up very clearly indeed on the oscillograph , and the profile provokes its own continuation , did you know that , the profile moulds you as it oscillates ? |
| 11 | Hoping this finds you as it leaves me we are none of us getting any younger Yours Sincerely Fred Bottomley . |
| 12 | But I thought you were so experienced that it would n't have affected you as it did me . ’ |
| 13 | Erm er on that basis erm we would and and even allowing for even allowing for a dense movement from Bradford to North Yorkshire , erm we as it said in our statements , are happy that that movement will not hinder urban regeneration in the urban area of the Bradford Metropolitan district . |
| 14 | Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her . |
| 15 | But , as she all at once realised that he thought , actually thought , that she had been pumping his secretary about him , so a tide of pink warmed her cheeks , and , ‘ Nothing ! ’ she exclaimed hotly , more startlement hitting her as it dawned on her that this then was the reason for his fury when he 'd seen them together . |
| 16 | Educated at home , she in turn taught her younger brothers and sisters , which irked her as it prevented her from pursuing her own studies . |
| 17 | She thought she heard an owl cry , and the falling shape , black now and only just visible , seemed to sweep suddenly to the left , soaring , then falling , turning a round and white face to glance at her as it vanished into the gloom . |
| 18 | It was only sometimes , in the warm dusks , that she felt this life was not perfect , not as full to her as it seemed . |
| 19 | That the cottage meant as much to her as it did to him was obvious , but it did n't occur to him that she might have been the intruder who had broken in . |
| 20 | His hand scalded her as it moved down her body , gliding silkily over the depression of her waist , across the flat planes of her quivering stomach , and back again to the graceful sweep of her hip . |
| 21 | I am working on a replacement for him as it does not look as though he will be available until June . ’ |
| 22 | Even Moran had to admit it though he dismissed it as well by saying that it would have done well enough for the likes of him as it had been . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , ’ Frau Nordern sat bolt upright and gave Marx her commanding glare which , however , did not have quite the same effect on him as it had done on the Duty Officer . |
| 24 | Despite Arnold Palmer 's memorable 1962 — when once again the golden hat-trick eluded him as it had in 1960 , with Open Championship and US Masters success , and only losing the US Open in a playoff with Jack Nicklaus — he had a quiet Open in 1963 . |
| 25 | Steel-Maitland was running Central Office like a business enterprise , not in order to make a political point , but because it was as natural to him as it had been foreign to Percival Hughes . |
| 26 | This comforted him as it had comforted him half a dozen times this afternoon , but his mind remained basically uneasy . |
| 27 | The poem describes how ‘ even when he was in France ’ — in the context of the poem it is reasonable to presume the front line trenches — ‘ the sun still woke him as it had at home ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Ross — I do wish that … ’ she began , hoping even at this last moment for some word , some sign that the scorching , torrid passion that had exploded between them in the Hamptons had meant as much to him as it had to her . |
| 29 | Other forms of seduction were also at work on him as it happens , and on I October of the year of his arrival in the village he married Edith Mason , youngest daughter of Henry Rice Mason of Godmanchester , Hunts. , a cabinet-maker . |
| 30 | Until this exchange the violent turn in Chant 's eye had never unsettled Estabrook , but it did now , preventing him as it did from meeting the other man 's gaze directly . |