Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I wrapped up the conversation as rudely as someone on Newsnight trying to silence a politician , just as he dealt me a social body blow . |
| 2 | How does it change the meaning or effect on the text , as far as you as a reader can tell ? |
| 3 | He missed most of last season but has run well this term and was certainly going as strongly as anything before making a mistake at the third last in the Gold Cup . |
| 4 | But in spite of everything perhaps it was just as well that none of the things they could see … none of the plump fish or chickens being toasted on skewers , none of the creamy breads , chapatis , nan , and parathas , none of the richly bubbling curries and glistening mounds of rice , which the skeletons ' scarlet rimmed eyes could see in their lenses and at which they glared for hour after hour that none of these things were available , for in their starved and debilitated condition it was very likely that a heavy curry would have killed them as dead as a cannon ball . |
| 5 | Their very amusing fanzine ‘ red issue ’ is full of such witty articles as well as lots of new and original jokes about Yorkshire folk and sheep ( very amusing , yawn yawn ) |
| 6 | Even worse , the European empires at least left behind them working administrative structures and moderately healthy economies , which meant that most of the ex-colonial countries have managed to maintain stable states and thriving economies — although , of course , not thriving as fast as ours in the west — but the Soviet empire is leaving no administration at all , only economic catastrophe . |
| 7 | I trained as often and as hard as I could , as hard as anybody on the staff — and that includes my old pal Bryan Robson , who was notorious for his unflagging effort — but the pain was excruciating . |
| 8 | And it should be such , drawn so strongly , that your readers will remember it as vividly as anything in any other sort of crime fiction . |