Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Just as everyone took it for granted that the young Scot was on the point of fulfilling the potential she had shown in the amateur game , so she stopped in her tracks .
2 The friar turned as someone tapped him on the shoulder .
3 He gave me a self-conscious grin and then yelped as someone thumped him in the back .
4 It will certainly seem so to the Englishman ( as I take him to be ) , who found in the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley — Pound 's most explicit farewell to England , as he prepared to leave her in 1918 — ‘ externality : an externality which , considering what Mauberley attempts , is utterly disabling ’ .
5 If that view is correct , as I take it to be , then the non-use of gas is one area in which the laws-of-war approach on the one hand , and the deterrence approach on the other , may have complemented each other .
6 As I disentangled myself from the green wool , I had been linked not only to these women beside me , but to those in Canaan and all the other women through the centuries who have wept over the death of the gods of life , of love , and of hope , whom they tried to revive with their tears .
7 And so on , as I get her to the bedroom and changed again and into bed .
8 As I get her into a fresh pair of rubber knickers I feel something cold on my face .
9 Apparently as long as I get it on a P C disk , five inch
10 As I flung myself at it , pounding footsteps were behind me .
11 I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin .
12 I was pleased when he asked me to do the test-flying programme for him and I had no qualms in agreeing , as I knew him to be a meticulous engineer .
13 Sid gave a growl and informed that as I knew nothing about modern techniques he had brought ‘ the lot . ’
14 It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s .
15 As I wiped them on my pinafore Mr Vulcan asked what was wrong with me .
16 The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad .
17 I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional .
18 I knew as soon as I saw it in the garden sale catalogue , it was unmistakeable . ’
19 ‘ It is n't as I saw it in my dreams . ’
20 So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force .
21 Too quickly , for my mother looked at me as I put them on the table .
22 It 's alright in that light as soon as I put it on the line it looks peculiar !
23 As I put it in the course of the argument , and as I sincerely believe , ‘ good parenting involves giving minors as much rope as they can handle without an unacceptable risk that they will hang themselves . ’
24 She did n't flinch as I expected her to .
25 " I want to please you and you 're not a bit as I expected you to be . "
26 As I questioned her during the session , Maxine described to me a life as Martha , a fisherman 's wife in a small seaport in the late eighteenth century .
27 As I followed him through the doorway the porter whispered , " Get your braces undone , sir , do n't keep him waiting . "
28 As I followed him across the road , he roared off-straight through green traffic lights and into the distance .
29 As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself .
30 It was a nice flat with a good view and as I let myself into Stuart Street , I wished I could remember how to find it again .
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