Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] it [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Apparently as long as I get it on a P C disk , five inch |
| 4 | It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I knew as soon as I saw it in the garden sale catalogue , it was unmistakeable . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It is n't as I saw it in my dreams . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It 's alright in that light as soon as I put it on the line it looks peculiar ! |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ As soon as I took it in my hands it felt beautiful , ’ he said . |
| 13 | For example , I might decide the angle of light on my desk is not as I require it on the basis of assessing the illumination and the lamp which is the source of it . |
| 14 | I am in a little lane that runs across the front of the hillside , with a kind of broken roadway underfoot which disintegrates as I follow it into gravel studded with outcrops of manhole . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Erm the point that you put to me I think two or three questions ago wa was related as I understood it to the the alignment and the network of the lanes . |
| 17 | In his Life he made William X of Aquitaine protest against Louis 's meddling in the Auvergne , with the words : ‘ If the count of Auvergne has committed any fault , it is my duty to present him at your court on your order , because he holds the Auvergne of me as I hold it of you . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I bought the sandwich and carefully peeled away the Cellophane , but just as I lifted it to my mouth the train lurched violently over a siding , making the bottles clatter in the drinks trolley and causing all the meatballs to jump off the bun , like sailors abandoning a burning ship . |
| 20 | So , the underlying part of the contract , as I understand it with Bowie , was that he was going to make an album with Tony Visconti and that song had to be done as a single . |
| 21 | Councillor I I had to admit that I 'm slightly lost in that one A now ends as I understand it with the roman numeral three that was proposed in the labour amendment . |
| 22 | Sir , this is the last day as I understand it of the greenbelt enquiry . |
| 23 | So it 's just simply to er comment about the the future work that 's gon na be done by Glanmole er , the work of investigation as I understand it at the end of that first section . |
| 24 | on this , and I 'll reiterate this , is the process that we go through as I understand it for introducing procedures , is that we take a diagonal slice through the organization er in other words there 's a draft procedure produced . |
| 25 | " As I understand it from Purvis , Madam Marchioness is wallowing in despair because she loved a man who chucked her out . |
| 26 | Turning now very briefly to the H One D the Greater York issue , clearly the comments I 've made about the calculations for York have a knock on effect for our position on Greater York , the Greater York figures as I understand it from the County Council are based on a one hundred percent migration assumption , if the technical difference between us er we are right then we believe clearly the Greater York figure should be increased by an appropriate amount , and the we 've suggested the increased cut should be seven hundred er relating to the city itself I ca n't calculate with any great accuracy what the figure for the surrounding parts of Greater York might be , but it would be we suspect only another one to two hundred more on top of that , therefore that underst explains the reason why the City Council suggests that the Greater York should be increased to the ten four figure from the nine seven . |
| 27 | And I un well as I understand it from , from , from the friends in Moscow their , their traditional industries are very archaic , they may have erm , the expertise in , in the armament section , but the other things , what they need is some of our engineers and we 've got a lot of engineers who were working overseas and at the moment are n't . |
| 28 | If , as I understand it from what you have just said , you 're relying on Jenny to write a procedure , which is gon na cover all of the other continuous things and you 're gon na get that ready by this particular date if you , the suseption was that it simply wo n't occur . |
| 29 | As I understand it from what was said at Edingley it was n't necessary for these buses to go to Norwood Gardens because they were well served without . |
| 30 | She said that the increased charges to her , and she is totally immobile , except as I understand it from being able to move her head , the increased charges to her would be thirty seven per cent of her total weekly income of eighty pounds . |