Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that one as soon as I saw that it was from that is was a reject one . |
| 2 | Christy O'Connor Jnr played on the second morning and Jose Maria Canizares in the afternoon and although they did n't give me any points I felt it was important that they got a chance to taste the atmosphere and feel a part of the proceedings , as I thought that it would help them going into the singles . |
| 3 | I feel today the excitement of that encounter almost as keenly as I did when it took place over fifty years ago . |
| 4 | But as you said if it is your responsibility you 'll have to do it all yourself , there are lots of resources and lots of other people who can actually help you out who have the knowledge and you can use because you can use it as a development tool ca n't you for some of your members of the section to give them some training expertise . |
| 5 | So you 've had a sharp increase in our shareholders ' funds during the six months and a reduction in our net debt which may not be quite as er substantial as you expected but it is the combination of on the one hand the proceeds of Elsivir less some reinvestment which Frank mentioned , we put a little more money in B S B and the minority interests and we do have traditionally in the first half an adverse net movement of funds from operation about ninety five million and then we had thirty two million odd er of simply revaluation as a result of translating our dollar debt at er the one sixty as opposed to the year ending rate . |
| 6 | The South Downs with the short springy turf decorated with harebells and scabious , and the deceptively gentle slopes , the horizon constantly moving ahead of you , as you puffed after it . |
| 7 | She was trembling with anger and tiredness , her legs a little unsteady from the effect of the aquavit , as she realised that it had begun to rain again . |
| 8 | Laura said slowly , her sapphire-blue eyes beginning to sparkle as she realised that it might , just possibly , be the answer to her problems . |
| 9 | It 's thought Becky Blandford 's hat came off as she fell and it 's not certain whether it had a chin strap , like the one she 's wearing here . |
| 10 | So as soon as she said that it was in use Monday Wednesday I sort of |
| 11 | We just worked as long as we liked and it and it was hard work of course it was , turning these socks like that , two , well it was hundred dozen pays , that 's two thousand four hundred . |
| 12 | This period was chosen as we considered that it was th minimum required to obtain a good baseline for treatment frequency and laser energy requirements for good tumour control . |
| 13 | It had taken a war to do that , Vi realized ; though she would n't mind betting that on the day peace came , all the caring would end and people would go back to minding their own business again , just as they had before it started . |
| 14 | The nurses topped it up again as soon as they realised but it took time to go through and have any effect so I had about twenty minutes of real labour pains . |
| 15 | It refused as it knew that it could not do so and survive at home . |
| 16 | He was attracted to her , as any red-blooded male would be to any presentable woman in these circumstances , but that was as far as it went and it was up to her to make sure her own feelings did n't betray her . |
| 17 | The government of Bosnia-Hercegovina under President Alija Izetbegovic continued as the internationally recognized government of Bosnia-Hercegovina but had lost control of most of the territory of the state as it existed when it was recognized internationally in April 1992 [ see p. 38848 ] . |
| 18 | Fergus waited until the herd was as close as it looked like it was going to come , then sighted on the limping beast , still two hundred yards away . |
| 19 | No no and we even if we were offered them we would n't take them because the logic of the thing is that what we 're trying to show is a medieval house as it looked when it was nearly new . |
| 20 | Now we do n't have any new things , I should have Thank you for asking the question because we 're trying to give the impression of a medieval house the what 's special about this is that it 's a medieval house as it looked when it was new . |
| 21 | So far , the British Electric Traction Co. had held all the capital and completely controlled the expenditure and policy of the South Metropolitan undertaking , just as it had when it worked the Corporation system . |
| 22 | The Arts Council gave a substantial grant to this scheme as it felt that it emphasised artists ‘ opportunities and practice , rather than the institution and its curatorial staff . |
| 23 | She had started to look for another job , as it seemed that it would be possible to sell the shop within the next few weeks . |
| 24 | Cap Gemini Sogeti SA said yesterday that it was making the offer for the remaining 28.8% of London W-based software and computer services company Hoskyns Group Plc as it promised when it bought its majority stake from GEC Siemens Plc . |
| 25 | Look through the south door to the garden and there , across the moat , the formal garden of yews and allées stretches towards the downs just as it did when it was first laid out . |
| 26 | The specimen shown has both its original valves preserved , and looks today much as it did when it had just died . |
| 27 | A slow smile spread across his face as he realized that it must be Ace with the Marines . |
| 28 | It was this sort of in-between authority that he could not tolerate as he felt that it would only increase the existing element of confusion . |
| 29 | E. L. Garbett , who published a detailed analysis of all the block plans in The Builder , categorized this scheme as one of the ‘ Obviously Non-competing Block Plans ’ as he felt that it radically departed from the conditions , but neither the judges nor the assessors found it faulty . |
| 30 | Lloyd George became convinced that if need due to ill-health and other contingencies were to be met by cash benefits , as he believed that it should , the only financially and politically feasible means was the establishment of contributory insurance . |