Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave me a self-conscious grin and then yelped as someone thumped him in the back . |
| 2 | It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s . |
| 3 | I knew as soon as I saw it in the garden sale catalogue , it was unmistakeable . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It is n't as I saw it in my dreams . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Then you started on with that high-handed act , and I felt a tremendous urge to tame your proud spirit , hear your soft whimpering sighs as I buried myself in you . |
| 8 | ‘ As soon as I took it in my hands it felt beautiful , ’ he said . |
| 9 | It 's raining heavily as I wrap myself in my gascape and move further to the back of the trench . |
| 10 | During the coming weeks , as I told you in our last programme , we are going to talk with people from outside the university who have contacts with us . |
| 11 | I felt the jolt in his chest as I hugged it in rhythm against mine and for a long second could n't believe it , but then he heaved again in my arms and coughed in my face and a mouthful of dirty water shot out in a spout and he began coughing in earnest and choking and gasping for air … gasping , gulping air down , wheezing in his throat , whooping like whooping cough , struggling to fill his functioning lungs . |
| 12 | The vast majority of academic writers , as I discovered myself in a trawl of more recent literature , tend to recycle old material , relying upon out-of-date statistics and official reports . |
| 13 | I do n't have fancy feelings about where money comes from , so long as I earn it in ways which fit in with my flexible principles . |
| 14 | I prefer to leave pictures just as I finish them in front of the subject . |
| 15 | As I loaded them in there was a sharp reminder of the night before . |
| 16 | As I placed them in the water , the bone-china cups and saucers became first glass then nothing ; the water was cold as a glacier . |
| 17 | The task of the theist , as I see it in this book , is to define what he or she means by the word ‘ God ’ , and to give some evidence for believing that this Deity exists . |
| 18 | I said as soon as I see it in the paper oh that looks nice . |
| 19 | I was very frightened as I remembered something in the Book of Remembering : ‘ In those days there were trees … ‘ |
| 20 | The town was much as I remembered it in 1919 . |
| 21 | I try not to look at them closely , the patients , as I lead them in their paper bibs from the Chamber ; I keep visualizing my own viscera , and there is something solid and manmade in there , like a lead pipe , snagged and dragging . |
| 22 | As I held it in my hand it all came back to me . |
| 23 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 24 | I I will talk about the fund as I found it in my capacity as a very recent chairman . |
| 25 | Being pregnant is a wonderful , life-shaping , sometimes terrifying experience — as you told us in How Does It Feel ? on page 10 . |
| 26 | If your letter is not delivered on the first working day after your posted it — as long as you posted it in time to get there — then we automatically refund your fee . |
| 27 | Trust me , as you trusted me in Seville . |
| 28 | I do n't care what it is called , and I must admit I have n't yet read anything about masochism as you call it in your book . |
| 29 | Why did it become an ‘ unregarded ’ art , as you call it in your Introduction ? |
| 30 | What are the problems as you see them in this neighbourhood ? |