Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as I stuck to squawks and Pretty fucking Polly , I was fine ? |
| 2 | As I listened to passages of Scripture read aloud , or to the Preaching of the Word , ( very important in non-conformist chapels ! ) |
| 3 | The connection between girls suffering from eating disorders and violently hating their own bodies , and sexual violence in society , struck me more and more powerfully as I listened to girls talking about periods , body shape and size , and how they feel about their bodies . |
| 4 | I wondered as I thought of secrets if I might find some release in telling Lili the thing that festered in my soul , and I asked her if she would listen . |
| 5 | I am interested to hear Derek Brown 's opinions on this subject as I know from discussions we have had that he shares this view , but probably has a different remedy for the problem . |
| 6 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 7 | Even as I snatch for weapons , whip-tendrils seize my wrists and my neck . |
| 8 | As I enter into interactions with others , I become aware from their viewpoints and respond in favour of their sovereignties as of my own . |
| 9 | I must admit I do not seem to know them as I used to years ago , apart from a couple of detectives who come into the shop . |
| 10 | Marje adds : ‘ If you live a double life of lies and deception as I did for years and years , you need to speak about it eventually . |
| 11 | MATURITY IS : Applying the same standards to myself as I do to others . |
| 12 | At 8.45 I arrived at school my heart filled with delight as I stood amongst pupils in school uniform while I stood in my usual scruffy manner . |
| 13 | Feed a pinch of crushed flake as you put in pellets for the adult fish . |
| 14 | What 's more , the toolbox will change automatically as you switch between programs , should you so desire , to load the right set of buttons for the application you 're in . |
| 15 | So again , go and have a word with Father Patrick as soon as you hear of plans to update . |
| 16 | Promotion , we go out to cause promotion , but when you first get it , it can be very stressed as you come to terms with your new situation . |
| 17 | You came across patches of happiness here , just as you came across patches of colour . |
| 18 | The main route , travelling in an anti-clockwise direction , covers approximately 40 miles , so allow an hour or so for driving and as long as you like for stops ! |
| 19 | We talked , we made plans , we exchanged numbers , as you do on aeroplanes : it 's the booze , it 's the canned air and the rich-quick stories , it 's the pornography of travel . |
| 20 | Okay , now erm , today as you realize with feelings of immense relief is the last lecture of the term , so , so what I 'm gon na do , is to start talking about the er , so called black books of Freud , the set texts in this , in this course and I 'm gon na start talking today about the first , and in some ways , one of the most important of these , Totem and Taboo , and since it 's the last lecture of term , and you probably all forget what I said over the Christmas holiday , and wo n't be able to recall it afterwards , through the alcoholic haze , er what I thought I 'd do today , was talk about Totem and Taboo in the way in which it looked backwards rather than forwards . |
| 21 | The freedom to eat as many vegetables as you want at mealtimes resolves this problem . |
| 22 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 23 | You could get as worked up as you liked about sports . ’ |
| 24 | When she turned on her mother , her face was scarlet and her double chin wobbled as she sought for words . |
| 25 | Sally , her father 's wife , had advised her on more than one occasion , but Harriet had as little time for stylists as she had for clothes — and besides , she rather liked her hair just as it was . |
| 26 | The Trunchbull had as great a dislike for long hair on boys as she had for plaits and pigtails on girls and she was about to show it . |
| 27 | Well , you 'll also have noticed I am sure that as she went on touches of uneasiness began to appear . |
| 28 | Reality returned slowly as she lay with eyes closed , still savouring the feel of the warm and powerful body lying on top of her own . |
| 29 | In its centre a hand-sculpted Virgin painted in blues , reds and flesh tones lifted the Christ-child heavenwards as she ascended through fragments of cloud . |
| 30 | Alyssia gasped at his loose rendition of the truth , and then closed her mouth as she took in Piers 's frozen expression . |