Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have two rules with pruning ornamental shrubs : if the shrub is like jasmine or forsythia and flowers before midsummer , prune it as soon as the flowers have faded . |
| 2 | When my husband takes his shirts off I have to wash them straight away — like he wears two shirts on Sunday and I wash them as soon as he takes them off . |
| 3 | I am giving them the most careful and thorough consideration , and I shall reach a decision and announce it as soon as I can . |
| 4 | The Tories cut it as soon as they got back in power . |
| 5 | " These are rabbits we 're going to meet You know them as well as you know us . |
| 6 | You know them as well as I. John de Breos in Gower is no longer a tenant of the crown , but of de Burgh 's new fief . |
| 7 | You can think you know someone as well as yourself , but then you are caught up , surprised , by something they say . |
| 8 | The elegance and yesteryear style of the Golden Nugget confront you as soon as you step across the threshold of this lavish hotel/casino . |
| 9 | No I just said I like him as well but |
| 10 | After all , you know him as well as anyone . " |
| 11 | I have encountered it so often in a lengthy acquaintance with this landscape , I know it as well as my own name . |
| 12 | Yeah , I know it as well as anything but er er |
| 13 | Do n't bother about the rent if you have n't got it now , just so long as you pay me as soon as you get back . |
| 14 | Please contact me as soon as you can after the sale to collect your money and any unsold items . |
| 15 | Please contact me as soon as you can after the sale to collect your money and any unsold items . |
| 16 | All of these had to be mixed with a suitable quota of pretty and elegant women to form some sort of homogeneous gathering , so that the guests would , after a fashion , entertain themselves as well as be entertained . |
| 17 | As soon as he is out of the side , and the team continues to play well … they rub their hands and sell him as soon as they can . |
| 18 | I rang , I rang , I went to the dole office , when I went down I ask them as soon as I left Ann said the same , go down the dole when you ask about your poll tax , they said to me we ca n't give you any id , er anything , you have to phone them , council building site , I phone the council building and they asked me , that 's why I sent all your wage slips in for |
| 19 | I never use them as well as my own . |
| 20 | We sometimes surprise ourselves as well as our near and dear ones by suddenly exploding into unreasonable anger over a trifling offence which just happens to be the last straw that breaks the camel 's back . |
| 21 | Then on to the next house where they slyly accept a poster and bin it as soon as your back is turned ; and then to the next where support is promised if only your party in exchange guarantees to persecute , imprison and preferably execute certain categories of non-white-skinned people . |
| 22 | They sample themselves as well as the Sex Pistols . |
| 23 | They sample themselves as well as the Sex Pistols . |
| 24 | No longer ( as happened in the primary school in which I first worked ) would the teacher responsible for the fourth year ‘ scholarship ’ class leave them as soon as the examination day ( in January ) was passed — going to prepare the third year ‘ A ’ stream for next year 's examinations with a diet of chanted tables , spelling tests , drills in mental arithmetic , weekly essays , grammatical analysis , punctuation , and worksheets based on past intelligence test papers . |
| 25 | This means that gender-related attitudes affect them as well as those to do with ageing . |
| 26 | " I hope your friends have been looking alter you as well as these fellows have looked after us , Hazel , " said Bigwig . |
| 27 | I can see what you 're driving at , I mean what you 're saying is , you know , start it as soon as you can really . |
| 28 | I know but when I 'm with her a lot I really to talk about like is about other people so like I do it as well but like I do n't |
| 29 | Urban Hype do it as well as anyone else , but you crave more than the Barney McGrew nonsense of ‘ Trip ( geddit ? ) |
| 30 | and Ruth says I commit myself to him , he will now be my god , and therefore your people will be my people , your home will be my home , your destiny will be my destiny the way is clear , she makes that greatest decision of her life , a decision that will affect the whole of her life but its not as say a life decision is a commitment now , we , we , we are always confronted , day after day we are confronted to make decisions , some of you make decisions and were not too committed about them , and if things alter they will change our minds , not just a ladies prerogative to change her mind , men do it as well and things happen and we think oh no well , I wo n't go through with that I 'll change my mind before its too late , but here Ruth she is not just making a decision , she is making a total commitment , a commitment that is worth time of the whole of her life , to promised to be loyal to de to Naomi and her deceased husband , she promises loyalty to Naomi 's race and the people of god , but above all she acknowledge 's Naomi 's god and her willingness to follow him to the end , you know this , how she finishes of this commitment where you die I will die its to the end its to the end of my life , I will not walk out of it and even after you 've gone mother in law , even after you are dead I am still committed to that decision , this decision I am making today where you die I will die , there I will be buried , and here she sorts of puts this solemn vow to this commitment , thus may the lord to do me and worse if any thing but death parts you and me . |