Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good I , as I make you a pie then for your tea . |
| 2 | And as I saw her a cold hand closed around my heart . |
| 3 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
| 4 | As I handed him a glass of rum , I noticed that his eyes were full of tears . |
| 5 | As I find myself an outsider at this point , I can only put to you another question : Are you really sure that the issue of the ordination of women is so fundamental to the gospel that you would leave your Church and , in some cases , surrender your ministries on that point ? |
| 6 | As I gave her an exaggerated account of my clashes with different members of my family , she continued to discourage me , saying that the work in London was hard and that exile was no easy way of life . |
| 7 | There Roman time they , well as you know yourself a few hundred years they hope to find er nearly half of the world |
| 8 | Shakespeare must have thought them common enough : in As You Like It a frustrated Rosalind says , ‘ I prithee , take thy cork out of thy mouth that I may drink thy tidings . ’ |
| 9 | Same as you do it a plus number of times except the other way round . |
| 10 | ‘ I wo n't tell Mr Mac , long as you give me a ride on Miss Ellen when you 're done . ’ |
| 11 | Lucy swallowed as she sent him a nervous glance . |
| 12 | The genuine note of admiration in his voice sent a tiny and thoroughly illogical frisson of pleasure running through her , and she felt the faint tide of colour swim into her face as she sent him an answering smile . |
| 13 | As she passed it a car swung through the big yellow gates ; a cream-coloured car driven by a girl of about Breeze 's own age , or perhaps older . |
| 14 | Fran brought her thoughts back to the moment , forcing a slight , polite smile to her lips as she flicked him a quick sideways glance . |
| 15 | But as she needs me a hell of a lot more than I need her , we get along . ’ |
| 16 | Not as we seen him a lot but least he could come and say alright . |
| 17 | They ca n't make any profit out of us as they charge us a very reasonable rate . |
| 18 | I say ‘ solitary c. ’ because they gave me a little ward of my own , but it was anything but uncomfortable , as they gave me a treatment which ‘ private ward ’ patients in Britain might envy , except that the food of course was Chinese , and they insisted on giving me 5 meals a day , so that I had some trouble getting my appetite back to normal . |
| 19 | As it brought me an endless supply of free wallop I played along with this . |
| 20 | The frets here seem as soft as those on the Villain , and this would appear to be an area which the company will have to address , as it does them a disservice ; do they know how long poor quality bass frets last ? |
| 21 | They particularly enjoy dealing with Orcs as it gives them a chance to outwit their larger and more brutal cousins . |
| 22 | Elizabeth works two days a week in a friend 's boutique which she enjoys , as it gives her a little pin money and some independent social contact . |
| 23 | He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off . |
| 24 | Gerry pointed out , however , that referees were not happy having Pushov and his interpreter stood on the goal line as it gave us an unfair advantage . |
| 25 | The older man 's bushy grey brows rose as he shot her a penetrating glance . |
| 26 | I went back to the Maggot 's foul house , where he kept his killer dog and astonishing collection of guns , and we sat on his makeshift verandah that overlooked a noxious and polluted creek and shared a few whiskies as he told me an incredibly tedious tale of how he had once sacked the quarterback of the San Francisco Sugar Plums . |
| 27 | ‘ I see you 're taking this job extremely seriously , ’ Leo offered sympathetically as he brought her a cup of coffee halfway through the afternoon . |
| 28 | Almost as he said it a parachute inflated under the plane . |
| 29 | The spirit of Homais still reigns , I thought , as he sold us a packet of bandages . |
| 30 | At that point the creditor could still refuse to have the man released from prison and insist of his being kept there , so long as he paid him a groat a day . |