Example sentences of "[adv] as [pers pn] begin [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only as we begin to respond personally to the text 's content and open ourselves to its message ( irrespective of whether the consequence of this is an acceptance , modification , or rejection of it ) do we go beyond a mere decoding or perception of the words and begin to perceive meanings . |
| 2 | It 's only as you begin to come out of the Ketamine state that you begin to appreciate where you are or where you 've been . |
| 3 | Christina touched the side of his jeep and jumped away as it began to rock . |
| 4 | The big one dropped just as they began to relax . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , just as they began to beat their hasty retreat , the bell for the start of school rang . |
| 6 | Our archers caught the bastards just as they began to climb the scaling ladders , whilst men-at-arms , using the long forked poles lying on the parapet walk , shoved them out of the way . |
| 7 | The RENFE train station must be a long way from the centre , I thought , just as we began to enter the acid neon groves of the darkening city , through a narrow glade of brightly lit shops , the Corrielo , then through a vast archway — a policeman 's shrill whistle — and the bus was rolling and swinging right into the grand Plaza Mayor , which it circled slowly , triumphantly hooting . |
| 8 | Just as it began to break we burst through to the other side and we were safe into smoother water . |
| 9 | Then , just as I began to fall , |
| 10 | So just as I began to read to see , so too I began to write to see . |
| 11 | Just as he began to hoist her upwards , she turned on him and snapped , ‘ Leave me alone ! |
| 12 | Just as he began to fear that he was running for his life through a nightmare landscape that had no end , the ground suddenly opened to reveal the rushing waters of the beck and the section of crumbling stone wall on its other side . |
| 13 | What it does say is neatly summed up by Bereiter ( 1980 ) : " the disappointing message of the Schools ' Council research is that as soon as we begin to look beyond syntax , vocabulary and the like and try to Investigate functional aspects of student writing , we begin to find out more about the school system than we find out about children . " |
| 14 | Nevertheless , as soon as we begin to probe beneath the surface of the contemporary debate , political concerns sometimes seem to outweigh educational ones . |
| 15 | And as soon as we begin to enquire into the meaning of the term , we discover that it has been and still is understood in a variety of different ways , which may have a common core or root but are not identical . |
| 16 | As soon as they began to talk , you realised that this was not a diffuse collection of misfits , suitable cases for treatment or counselling . |
| 17 | As soon as they began to walk along the shops Owen was very glad that she had come . |
| 18 | She 'd noticed the change in him as soon as they began rehearsing in the theatre . |
| 19 | That of Clark draws attention to the phenomenon of speech repair in two-year-olds , where speech errors are spontaneously corrected , indicating that children must have awareness of language at some level virtually as soon as they begin to talk . |
| 20 | Assuming he phoned Donald as soon as she began to vomit and have headaches , would n't Donald ask what they had eaten for dinner ? |
| 21 | When she cries in her sleep , try not to fuss her , and do n't worry about her eating trouble — as soon as she begins to realise that you are a family unit her tum will never let her starve ! |
| 22 | He did have one last setback , however : as long as he was not reciting he was free from tension in the neck but , as soon as he began to use his voice , all his old habits returned . |
| 23 | As soon as he began to march south , German mercenaries and then men from the non-Norman states came to offer their services . |
| 24 | She heard the excitement in Stephen 's voice as soon as he began to speak . |
| 25 | But with Blufton the spell , the sense that he was engaged in some elaborate , magical charade , was broken as soon as he began to speak . |
| 26 | As soon as he begins to think pleasurably of his bed . ’ |
| 27 | So as soon as it began to move back , I gave it the biggest push I could manage . |
| 28 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |
| 29 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |
| 30 | He considered the Shah an autocrat , not a dictator ; a dictator would have crushed the clerical unrest as soon as it began to appear , and the Shah had not . |