Example sentences of "'s as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered little things — childhood images trapped in memory : his father 's hand laid momentarily on his mother 's as they sat at table ; laughter from their bedroom at night ; his mother straightening his father 's tie and drawing her finger in a delicate gesture along his cheek . |
| 2 | ‘ Intuitively I know that 's as misogynist as it gets , ’ says Shocked . |
| 3 | It 's as though you put together Coriolanus , Henry IV , Hamlet and the Tempest . |
| 4 | It 's as though only the worst in human beings is what 's real , the hard core of reality . |
| 5 | Would it , he was thinking , be like the ending of Forster 's as yet unpublished Maurice , a somewhat tame homo novel of which he was to say , commenting on the male lovers setting up house at the end , ‘ I give it three weeks ? ’ |
| 6 | The press had been given nothing but ‘ blurry , distorted photographs culled from television shots of occasions in the past at which North happened to be present ’ ; at best , ABC News had shown ‘ pictures of the back of a man 's head that may or may not have been North 's as the man got into an Embassy car in Cyprus on the occasion of the homeward flight of one of the hostages ’ . |
| 7 | Clarke had also seemed fortunate not to concede a penalty when he wrapped his legs round Wallace 's as the Leeds striker broke clear through the middle on to Strachan 's clever return pass after only 16 minutes . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's as well seein' it 's your last night at the leery work . ’ |
| 9 | It is like having an auntie in a way , but in other ways she is a mum because whenever it 's anything special , she always sends up something ... but it 's as I said before , like an auntie . |
| 10 | It 's as though you 'd found — Jane Austen 's love letters ? |
| 11 | Unfortunately , Doane 's conclusion was no less pessimistic than Mulvey 's as to the radical potential of this gaze , since she argued that the film narrative in these cases effectively forced the female spectator into a masochistic identification with the female protagonist . |
| 12 | They 're like a film you 've seen — no , it 's worse , they 're not even inside your memory , they disappear , it 's as though you never had them . |
| 13 | Delaney countered , smothering the Russian 's arms as he came in close , face inches from the man 's as he yelled in Russian . |
| 14 | If his Mum did the lot , and he thinks that 's as it should be , you 're going to have your work cut out persuading him to do his share . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's as well spoken as any gent . |
| 16 | It 's as though I 'm bleeding inside ’ . |
| 17 | Perhaps that 's as it should be , because who can know for sure ? |
| 18 | Ruth cried thrusting her arm through her sister 's as they walked . |
| 19 | I do n't see them very often but when we meet it 's as though we 'd seen each other yesterday . |
| 20 | He spent the night in anguish , but later in some hope ; Dinah was spirited ; surely she would not endure this decision of her father 's as to her future ? |
| 21 | ‘ I shall go to my mother 's as soon as my discharge from the army comes through . ’ |
| 22 | Olga 's voice was as tremendous as her mother 's as she screamed : ‘ Do n't be ridiculous ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But if it 's as they say it is and everything goes smoothly , David will only miss four or five matches at the most . |
| 24 | ‘ No ’ — Mary turned to her sister — ‘ no , it 's as I said , the lies . ’ |
| 25 | But it 's as Hirst 's sidekick rather than replacement that Bright can see his Wednesday career taking off . |
| 26 | Harvey Thorneycroft on the move for Millfield O.B . 's as the take on Toulouse . |
| 27 | I ask him if he 's as raggamuffin as his appearance suggests . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's as may be . |
| 29 | It 's as though that 's exactly the present the industry was hoping to find under the tree . |
| 30 | Three quick wickets went down early on the fourth morning , the first being Boon 's as he strolled a single , only to be embarrassed by keeper Pandit 's throw to the far end . |