Example sentences of "[v-ing] as [pron] [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | This is all realistic and is happening as I think it would if small boys were alone on an island . |
2 | After years of hard work , I think we 've got it looking as we want it to . ’ |
3 | In the present circumstances , when most people have the same beliefs about killing we do , that fact is not our dominant reason for acting as we think we should . |
4 | However , if you feel progress is too slow , you need to make slight adjustments to your food and exercise programme to get it going as you want it . |
5 | Instead of doing the usual reach-fall-reach , choose a point a few hundred metres upwind as a target to sail to , then you can concentrate solely on gybing as you work your way back downwind . |
6 | honourable member what he 's really saying as I understand it Madam Speaker is there 's too much bureaucracy and the bureaucracy is going to prevent anybody acting because they 're all overlapping , they 're all paid out of presumably the public purse as well , there 's a there 's a enormous number of public off officials that is preventing er a a clear direct , exes executive arm . |
7 | My heart kept jumping as I read it , remembering Dana and our many days and nights together . |
8 | And having , seeing as we see him so rarely now |
9 | I thought the last thing you wanted was to have to spend more time than necessary in my company … seeing as you dislike me so much ? ’ |
10 | really but seeing as I know her erm I thought I might give her a ring . |