Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | And so on , as I get her to the bedroom and changed again and into bed . |
| 7 | As I get her into a fresh pair of rubber knickers I feel something cold on my face . |
| 8 | Apparently as long as I get it on a P C disk , five inch |
| 9 | I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s . |
| 12 | As I wiped them on my pinafore Mr Vulcan asked what was wrong with me . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I knew as soon as I saw it in the garden sale catalogue , it was unmistakeable . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It is n't as I saw it in my dreams . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Too quickly , for my mother looked at me as I put them on the table . |
| 19 | It 's alright in that light as soon as I put it on the line it looks peculiar ! |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | She did n't flinch as I expected her to . |
| 22 | " I want to please you and you 're not a bit as I expected you to be . " |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As I followed him through the doorway the porter whispered , " Get your braces undone , sir , do n't keep him waiting . " |
| 25 | As I followed him across the road , he roared off-straight through green traffic lights and into the distance . |
| 26 | As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself . |
| 27 | Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them . |
| 28 | She seemed more beautiful than ever , and her manner to me was very pleasant , as I took her to the house in London where Miss Havisham had arranged for her to stay . |
| 29 | It was difficult to see what she was offering at first but as I took them from her I saw they were credit cards , an Access and a Visa , both made out in the name of Mrs J. A. Scamp . |
| 30 | ‘ As soon as I took it in my hands it felt beautiful , ’ he said . |