Example sentences of "[conj] as [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friendly system is one where as you talk you are being understood , and you can get some sort of response . |
| 2 | ‘ There are thousands , maybe tens of thousands , who are dying out in the rural areas , or as they make their way to the towns to get help . |
| 3 | Or as they put it in the locker-room , once you 're in , you 're in . |
| 4 | Of all the Soviet nationalities , the Baltic nations looked the most likely to establish ( or as they saw it , resume ) their independent statehood in the 1990s ; their opportunity to do so came soon after the attempted coup when ( in September 1991 ) the USSR Council of State formally approved their independent status and they were admitted into the United Nations and other international organisations . |
| 5 | In this his second publication of poetry , or as he calls it ‘ making the bastards suffer ’ , Bitumen has produced a well rounded collection of spite , venom and malicious slander . |
| 6 | The family was able to buy first the supermarket in Lordship Lane — or as he calls it , ‘ Hardship Lane ’ — then a string of other stores including a wholesalers business . |
| 7 | He denies that there is a single professional-managerial class ( or as he calls it the service class ) , but instead he sees it as being split in two . |
| 8 | ‘ I ’ , ‘ me ’ or ‘ mine ’ are words that are frequently heard in the classroom , as a child proudly announces that he has ‘ built a big tower ’ or ‘ got one like that ’ , or as he asserts himself by virtue of possession , ‘ That 's mine ’ . |
| 9 | And does he love you as you are , or as he wants you to be ? |
| 10 | Of course the role of the trustees is , is , is re- affirmed really by Good who er says that there under the under trust or as he sees it , the trustees should remain the legal owners of the fund and I wonder if we can move on to ownership . |
| 11 | To achieve this , Poulantzas says , it must to some extent be independent of all classes , or as he puts it , it must be relatively autonomous . |
| 12 | Storm damage to the spire has prompted the Rector to ask the organist to choose his notes wisely … or as he puts it , Ding Dong Merrily without the Dong . |
| 13 | Low rejected this , but agreed that a Yugoslav officer would be permitted " to visit all camps in which there were CROATS , or as he called them , Yugoslav Quislings " . |
| 14 | And finally , it brought on that rich cast of wooden-topped rustics , the Starkadders , with Aunt Ada Doom in the star part , not to speak of the simpleton whose main pleasure in life was doing the washing up , or as he called it , clettering the dishes with his liddle mop . |
| 15 | Or as he put it elsewhere : " the Deposing Doctrine , and placing the Power in the People , is but the Spittle of the Papists and Jesuits , which our Whigs and Dissenters have Lick't up " . |
| 16 | Or as you shut your front door and panic for a minute , thinking you have left your keys inside , you hear yourself say ‘ It 's all right . |
| 17 | Or as I see it , more sentimental . |
| 18 | Sometimes , when she was startled or frightened on my fist or as I approached her , it was painful to think that I might be responsible for her fear . |
| 19 | I agree that as we unfold our positive policies over the next few weeks , and as the electorate sees more and more of what Labour is offering — or not offering — what my hon. Friend has suggested will come about . |
| 20 | Twenty four spokes slide over a fixed cam , so that as they move they change length and unbalance the wheel . |
| 21 | You joked that as you kissed me deeply you could taste the tang of my lunchtime Cumberland sausage . |
| 22 | I hope that as you use it through the year , it will serve to remind you of the life-saving work you are helping to make possible for children throughout the world . |
| 23 | You may feel that as you make your notes immediately following the interview there will be points which you may like to clarify , particularly in a panel interview where different people may have formed different impressions . |
| 24 | Sid gave a growl and informed that as I knew nothing about modern techniques he had brought ‘ the lot . ’ |
| 25 | And we would defend that er er de or we would debate that as I understand it as where it should be debated at er the next stage of the planning process which will be an enquiry into a a planning application . |
| 26 | Er it 's been suggested by Mr from the H B F that as I understand his suggestion , that a lower provision of housing land in some way affects affordability or affects the er access to housing for the lower se lower ends of the lower income households . |
| 27 | In fact , he claims that as he achieves his aim of doubling turnover , he will actually take on more staff , particularly in services , which is labour-intensive . |
| 28 | He was sure that as he approached her image would waver and fade . |
| 29 | He feels that as he loved her so much during this time , he ca n't believe she was n't feeling the same way . |
| 30 | Legend has it that as he departed he destroyed the contents of the greenhouses by opening all the windows on a freezing night . |