Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [be] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happens when I extend this approach from myself , as I am here and now , to other persons , places and times ? |
| 2 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 3 | I 've stayed the same as I was before but now it 's all right to be what I was before . |
| 4 | I 'm as good now as I was then and my target is 20 goals for the season . |
| 5 | Be just as you are now and you 'll be fine . ’ |
| 6 | Real people : Sibylle Alexander as she is today and pictured with the Kaufmann family at Christmas 1942 . |
| 7 | Regular worshippers may have been as sparse then as they are today but he was a person to whom one turned in times of trouble , just as he was called on at times of family celebration . |
| 8 | There were weaknesses — batteries were neither so good nor so light as they are today and in any case this was the first step . |
| 9 | Yes the they were much the same as they are now but er , of course the one nearest was the er spraying hanger , that 's where they used to build the Swallow side-cars , the main office building there 's a large hanger with large sliding doors at the back of there which used to house the erm experimental department for the Harvard Aircraft and erm they used to operate the flight gang from there getting the planes ready to go up to be actually tested , and then the next hanger up was very much er starting from scratch and finishing the aircraft structurally you know . |
| 10 | The Poles were almost as keen to get foreign currency then as they are now and they allowed certain visits to relatives . ’ |
| 11 | Oh yes , oh yes much as they are now and the big horse we used to call them the big horses you know and er shows and that , all , they used to , Willenhall Wakes used to be fine really good , and er that was down in the Lane somewhere there . |
| 12 | ‘ I will not anthropomorphize these vandals as they are wilfully and ignorantly trying to destroy a building that is there for the use of all the community . |
| 13 | The Report , echoing the research of the previous decade and the confidence of Crowther , asserted that the ‘ Newsom Children ’ ( as they were conveniently but inelegantly called ) were held back more by social than by genetic factors . |
| 14 | Would she and Stephen be sitting just as they were now and be suddenly unable to remember anything that had happened because nothing would have been real ? |
| 15 | Mr Court was a principal architect of this Society as it is today and I am grateful for this opportunity to pay tribute to the very considerable part he has played in the development of the Society over the past 16 years . |
| 16 | Well , it , it , it looked very similar , not quite as good as it is now but er , it was n't no where near as wide of course . |
| 17 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 18 | Mm but I , I mean I can use it as it is now but anything else on to it I would find it difficult . |
| 19 | Though the Dragon Princes were few the destruction they could wreak was unmatched then as it is now and few dared the wrath of Caledor . |
| 20 | It claims 100% compatibility with Windows 3. x ( as it is now and as it may become to ward off emulators ) and no degradation in the performance of any Windows application . |
| 21 | X ( as it is now and as it may become to ward off emulators ) and no degradation in the performance of any Windows application . |
| 22 | The orbit will be circular and the Moon will be about 1½ times as far away as it is now and so total solar eclipses will not occur . |
| 23 | This would offer an overview of the environment — both as it is now and how it might become on present trends . |
| 24 | I suggest that the erm ticket price should be two pounds fifty as it is now and that the concessionary price should be increased to two pounds . |
| 25 | It 's Weathernly as it 's more or less . |
| 26 | Too great a reliance on self-financing would , however , require prices which were well above long-run costs ( or as it was differently but conventionally expressed in the contemporary discussion by officials , would burden present-day consumers with an unfair proportion of the costs of supplying electricity in the future ) . |
| 27 | is this erm looking at the a Moving on to look at the erm this area for actual for traders and so on , is it as attractive erm for traders to actually move into the area , as it was previously or or not ? |
| 28 | The air around each of them is by no means as sweet-smelling as it was then and the water that flows over the falls into the harbour is certainly not as pure . |
| 29 | he passed his eleven plus as it was then and er he went to a school called Regent Street Grammar school in Plymouth and when we moved in here I had to go to Holly House , I think they call it |
| 30 | I should like to commend to Members the text of the Inaugural meeting of the BIE in London in 1927 much of which is as relevant today as it was then and it will only be by the commitment of you the members that the Institute will improve and ultimately progress . |