Example sentences of "as [subord] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As once you have dealt with history , you have to put in place something that keeps it up to date , without too much labour and without erm , a major hole there where things fall into the middle cover and come out . |
| 2 | ‘ I must say that our discussion was such that it was as if we have known each other for many , many years . ’ |
| 3 | And it does n't sound quite as clear as if you have to think about who you 're talking to . |
| 4 | Nowhere does a glass of Tetley 's ale taste so good ( though for us it had to be lemonade ) as when you have completed that two-hour trek over the brow of Ilkley Moor-or " ovver t'top " as they say up there . |
| 5 | But if your complaint is that a less tangible term of your employment has been broken , as when you have suffered harassment from your superiors or your status has been eroded , it may be difficult to establish a viable claim for compensation if you do not quit . |
| 6 | For these people , the last word in radical chic is Brut Soap-on-a-Rope ; they dress as though they have stepped straight from the pages of a Seventies mail-order catalogue ; they consider a good night out to be crowding into the only working public telephone box , and , hyperventilating in their over-excitement , taking it in turns to listen to the talking clock . |
| 7 | They do not only make their way through stuffed and clamoring doorways , but emerge from the unseen bowels of the pub , as though they have held themselves privately for days in the cellar , waiting with bated breath , presenting themselves only as the hour grows ripe . |
| 8 | ‘ You know well enough , James — you must have thought — once the government is resolved , and we have talked ourselves hoarse and there is no ink left in the country — then the dragoons will come in and cart the young men away as though we have done nothing . |
| 9 | It seems as though we have conquered the traditional infectious diseases only to be assaulted by new ones . |
| 10 | It is as though we have reached a plane beyond normal feelings . |
| 11 | I mean , it is n't as though we have to operate a policy in which we heavily advertise the availability of grants , it , it can develop via word of mouth , if we advertise anything , we would be inundated with demand for to a level that we could n't cope with . |
| 12 | D' you know , in a way I feel as though I have to take care of him for her . ’ |
| 13 | Living with the family in Richmond is bewildering , and although I would never admit it I feel as though I have made a big mistake . |
| 14 | I feel as though I have run up against ‘ The System ’ in all its indifferent , anonymous power . |
| 15 | It is as though I have spent those motionless hours on her sofa in the hands of a hairdresser , hypnotist and clairvoyant combined . |
| 16 | It is as though I have left the dull class rooms of the world and the discordant sound of the trampling feet and I have reached a place far from men where my mind is moved by universal rhythms . |
| 17 | Afterwards , you should feel revitalised — as though you have plugged yourself into a source of energy . |
| 18 | It feels as though you have gone mad . |
| 19 | At the end of the whole routine you should feel as though you have achieved a great deal . |
| 20 | No high for finishing the marathon if you do n't run through the nerves at the start , the blisters , the soft grey stage of the race where the roadscape does n't change , where it feels as though you have done it all and yet there are still a few miles to go . |
| 21 | In Western cooking such a mixture can add zing to almost anything from scrambled eggs to vegetables , soups , stews and sauces and poached or baked fruits , with the grateful advantage that the result will not taste as though you have succumbed to panic and thrown in a spoonful of curry powder . |
| 22 | It 's as though you have to show that you — ’ |