Example sentences of "as [pron] [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nightwatchman sat on the bamboo bench at the side of the road as everyone else went to bed . |
| 2 | As I previously indicated to you , our fees are based on time taken at our appropriate scale rates . |
| 3 | It was as fine an afternoon as you could wish for as I slowly descended to Malham Beck , the Cove coming into view on my left as I walked down . |
| 4 | Well as I actually had to going round the corner , to get myself round the corner , I had to come off the brake and onto the accelerator |
| 5 | ‘ Before I came here , I had my life all sorted out , I was happy — at least , as happy as I ever expected to be . |
| 6 | John asked me to help him the following year as I often came to Stamford to see my mother . |
| 7 | This , however , caused me untold problems , as I then had to ‘ answer ’ to the officer and see a tutor at the nursing school to explain the reason for such criticism . |
| 8 | I am so happy , as I never expected to be , knowing that he wishes to marry me , has not rejected me as soiled goods as so many would have done . |
| 9 | The debt played on my mind as I half listened to a soprano trying to sing Lulu 's ‘ Shout ’ . |
| 10 | As I warily got to my feet I felt a compulsion to retrace my steps in the direction of Jock 's trench . |
| 11 | Lindsey smiled as she also rose to her feet . |
| 12 | Peter did not think Anna should have told the children anything about it , but she was not , as she frequently said to him , that kind of mother . |
| 13 | As she repeatedly pointed to the backdrop slogan , ‘ The Right Team for Britain 's Future ’ , Viscount Whitelaw , the former deputy prime minister , tried to bring the adulation to close by bellowing ‘ No more , no more ’ and ringing the chairman 's bell . |
| 14 | Not that Susanna Cellini — or Belford-Cellini as she apparently preferred to be known — would be impressed , but neither could she be disparaging . |
| 15 | ‘ It would give you and Miss Liza ’ — as she still referred to Celia 's mother — ‘ a bit of a break . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , ’ she muttered as she deliberately refused to even consider the implications of his statement , of that strong body being in a wheelchair , diminished , the arrogance dimmed . |
| 17 | Baldwin then went to meet her at Victoria Station and walked the half mile to their Eaton Square house with her , describing , as she subsequently wrote to her husband 's mother , what had happened , in slightly breathless terms : |
| 18 | She put her points over to the juniors as well as she always did to everyone else , with a wonderful mix of candour , directness , understanding and humour — and always with a twinkle in the eye . |
| 19 | Over the years royal staff and her friends have been puzzled by Diana 's appetite , particularly as she always appeared to be so slim . |
| 20 | That 's as close as we ever got to it . ’ |
| 21 | And then , as something else occurred to him , ‘ Was that , then , the only time that twins had ever been born to the Wolfline ? ’ |
| 22 | Their heads were the size of flies and moved to and fro as they presumably spoke to one another . |
| 23 | Most concentrated on the popular view of Best , with Smash Hits one of the few exceptions , as they churlishly explained to their readers : ‘ He was a former footballing hero who used to get raddled a lot . ’ |
| 24 | Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harriers had 21 winners as they just lost to Liverpool in the Woolworths Young Athletes Northern Premier League fixture at York . |
| 25 | Er and they developed these skills , as I said earlier , basically for their husbands for use in inclement weather and gradually as they obviously got to m make more and more they got these to trade . |
| 26 | In contrast , the Whigs were the " Low Church " party , as they now came to be called : they continued to be critical of High Anglican religious intolerance , and in general remained consistent to their beliefs in liberty of conscience and religious toleration for all Protestants . |
| 27 | The complex , sometimes obscure series certainly was provocative , as it probably meant to be , waking the Chinese people up to harsh realities . |
| 28 | The Special Air Service Regiment — or S.A.S. , as it soon came to be called — was at this time an established part of the Army Air Corps , though it was little known to the public at large . |
| 29 | But if , remembering this qualification , we consider Europe as a unit — as it often appeared to the rest of the world — then Europe 's main economic role in the world economy was to be a supplier of capital and manufactured goods ; the rest of the world absorbed that capital and those manufactures and supplied Europe with primary materials . |
| 30 | The fourth shot struck again in the chest , slamming Doyle hard against the wall , leaving a bloody smear as he slowly slipped to the floor , his eyes half closed , the breath wheezing from his lungs . |