Example sentences of "[pron] as [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Morse was consulting the Paddington-Oxford timetable which Lewis had picked up for him from Reception , and was nodding to himself as he noted that the 13.30 arrived at Oxford 14.57 , just as Kemp had claimed . |
| 2 | Blanche smiled to herself as she realised that he was unaware of the irony . |
| 3 | Restored by a large steak , he explained to her as they ate that he liked to work very quickly on a murder case , pushing everyone to get an answer . |
| 4 | There was something vulnerable in her as she slept that contradicted the determination in her face when she was awake . |
| 5 | Her heart beat crazily within her as she recalled that the last time she 'd seen him she had hit him with all her might — and from the look of fury on his face he was not easily going to forgive her ! |
| 6 | An unexpected pang lanced through her as she realised that after today fitzAlan would no longer stand between her and the rest of the world . |
| 7 | My heart ached for her as I realised that she had joined the ranks of so many others I had known , who had watched their men fly off into the dusk , never to be heard of again . |
| 8 | It occurred to him as they drove that a particularly splendid piece of jewellery would n't suit her anyway . |
| 9 | It occurred to him as he walked that he had not seen Taheb since their visit to the palace compound . |
| 10 | Ralph , without the wise word of Piggy , does not realise until near the end that ‘ sharpening his stick at both ends ’ means that Jack 's hunters are out to kill him as he believes that they are not capable of murder . |
| 11 | It came to me as I listened that I did n't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment , that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through , because all I had been through was my being there . |
| 12 | It just occurs to me as I write that Chavasse in this matter is probably the unwilling mouthpiece of the Select Vestry : I daresay even that monstrous regiment of women , incarnated in Lily Ewart , is really at the bottom of it . |
| 13 | This is an unacceptable to most of them as they believe that such service furthers military aims . |