Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they say he will fashion any spell so long as someone will pay him enough . ’ |
| 2 | There must somehow , as a consequence of the ordinary laws of physics , come into being self-copying entities or , as I shall call them , replicators . |
| 3 | To be guilty of theft the offender , as I shall call him , must act dishonestly and must have the intention of permanently depriving the owner of property . |
| 4 | Punch lace ( as I shall call it ) is almost as easy as knitting Fair Isle . |
| 5 | By investigating the ways in which it has been used to explain particular phenomena , I shall aim to provide a more detailed account of absolute holism , as I shall call it , and of the mode of explanation it embodies . |
| 6 | Much as I may deplore it , for the moment you 're very much my responsibility . ’ |
| 7 | The only point is that I want that foreigner not to undersell my labour and I want him to be as competent to do the work as well as I would do it myself . |
| 8 | Little children need to starve no more as I would give them a big food store . |
| 9 | My crew were never aware of my lapse and I am just as ashamed to tell this story today as I would had I told it 45 years ago . |
| 10 | They were the faces of two entirely separate people , and try as I would to superimpose them they would n't focus into a single man for whom I had a single , straightforward feeling . |
| 11 | By now it had become clear that the way to approach the show would be to do the linking material as near to Joyce 's as I could , but to do the sketches very much more as I would approach them as an actress . |
| 12 | As I would put it , not only is justice not seen to have been done but there is no way , in the absence of reasons from the board , in which it can be judged whether in fact it has been done . |
| 13 | The basic ground rules that determine whether a new settlement concept does as I would put it get into the starting gate . |
| 14 | He shook his head as much as I would allow him to . |
| 15 | Ward it well as I would ward you , and I shall be content . ’ |
| 16 | Not much of interest was said , and certainly not by shadowy me , though that is as I would have it . |
| 17 | I had only pretended I did n't know , preferring to see things as I would like them to be , rather than as they were , imprisoning myself in a ramshackle edifice of lies because I could n't bear to knock it down and start again , shivering and alone in a great expanse of sand . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm afraid everything 's not as I would like it to be here — you know , of course that we 've been without a Marshal for two months now — not that I ca n't cope after twenty years service in this village , but even so — ’ |
| 19 | Mr Robinson admitted that the Office of Fair Trading which pledged to investigate the complaints was ‘ not necessarily acting as quickly as I would like it to . ’ |
| 20 | Erm the bedroom does n't get as hot as I would like it |
| 21 | Yes I yes they are er but I seem to have reached a , a stage where they 're not progressing as much as I would like you know ? |
| 22 | ‘ I run the kitchen just as I would run it in a hotel or restaurant , ’ he says . |
| 23 | ‘ What we brought into the head office was financial expertise as I 'd recognise it and it did deliver a huge benefit including giving professionally-based leadership at the centre for all the financial staff already working out there in the field . |
| 24 | She reminds me of Catherine de Medici , Queen of France , ‘ Madame Serpent ’ as I used to call her . |
| 25 | But even if one is not antagonised by the appalling monotony of Mr. Lawrence 's theme , under all its splendid variations , one still turns away with the judgement : ‘ this is not my world , either as it is or as I should wish it to be . ’ |
| 26 | I do n't trust anyone as far as I could throw them : it 's as simple as that . |
| 27 | The snow was banked in humps at the roadside but I pulled in as much as I could to let him pass . |
| 28 | I used to smoke as much smack as I could lay me hands on . |
| 29 | With such dignity as I could manage I began to walk back to the village . |
| 30 | I had no means of knowing what sort of line I had kept on my cross-country stumble , but it had been NNE as near as I could make it . |