Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could walk as fast as I ever did but I tended to roll my shoulders and turn my three-toed foot in as I did so . |
| 2 | This resistance can only be overcome as you gently persuade and cajole subordinates to expand their horizons . |
| 3 | The T'ang 's own cooks sat idle in her kitchen , watching with suspicion and a degree of amazement as she single-handedly prepared and served the meal . |
| 4 | She had finally cracked the ice with young Nick , and was now flexing and exercising muscles , as she madly twirled and twisted the rows of red-painted wooden men , that she had almost forgotten she had . |
| 5 | But she simply ignored him as she always had and began to practise with the yellow-haired vibrancer who 'd been with Jeopardy in Mandru 's salon on the morning Lucien had met the master . |
| 6 | For example if you had the London Mozart players here as we frequently did and frequently played to full houses , then even with a hundred percent house there was a subsidy required of something like seven or eight pounds per seat , in order to meet the cost of presenting that particular concert and we 've done it for years but sadly when we had to make cuts that was one of things the board decided they had to cut up they had to save money somehow . |
| 7 | The prudish Victorians attempted to divert attention from the overtly sexual nature of weddings and invented the cake as we now know and probably dislike it . |
| 8 | ( c ) Add examples and supporting factual detail only insofar as they successfully illustrate and substantiate the main points . |
| 9 | anybody they are in the area you know as they always say and ah sorry we need a back door so they say they offer one per door one |
| 10 | The problem was resolved by writing our own information retrieval program which met most of the requirements as they then existed and , with much thought being given on the subject , was designed to be flexible enough to cater for the majority of future needs . |
| 11 | At the garden centre you can obtain bags of granite chippings that can also be used as decor for the aquarium base , although it is no use where high turnover undergravel filtration is in use as it soon blocks and becomes covered in a blanket of waste matter . |
| 12 | Staring at the door , Ellie seemed quite unable to tear her eyes away as it slowly opened and Feargal walked in . |
| 13 | Not as funny as it actually happening and you getting covered in vomit but I mean it 's still vaguely amusing . |
| 14 | Marx made the point that : ‘ Production in general is an abstraction , but a sensible abstraction insofar as it actually emphasises and defines the common aspects and thus avoids repetition . ’ |
| 15 | Pulsatilla seemed to cover the case as it now presented and successfully treated both the anxiety and the palpitations . |
| 16 | I actually mar marked twelve closed questions as it so happened but that 's , that 's neither here nor there , that 's ju that 's just a point of reference . |
| 17 | But in a sense such criticism misses the point , for Napoleon III and his prefect were well aware of the nature of Parisian society as it then existed and wished to take account of it . |
| 18 | My Lords , may I ask my Noble Friend if it would n't be better really to lease the land for a period of time , perhaps long enough for the anguish felt about the cost of the library as it currently stands and when perhaps more optimistic views could be entertained , because the piece of land it 's on is not going to be recoverable once it 's sold . |
| 19 | Fascination with the older girls won just as it always did and she crossed the landing , an expanse of lino dotted with what her mother referred to as ‘ slip mats ’ , pushed open the door and went in . |
| 20 | My life is set to go on as it always has and no war can change it that I can see . ’ |
| 21 | There 's no danger of the river rising so fast it floods the course as it sometimes does but sadly as you can see , rain overnight and it 's raining now . |
| 22 | Strange because it is , as he later admitted and I 'm sure he was later very embarrassed by it , erm histrionic and emotional in the most extreme way . |
| 23 | Pete ran ahead and opened the big glass doors as he usually did and Mum lifted him up to press the button for the lift . |
| 24 | She caught her breath , then closed her eyes as he gently rubbed and caressed . |
| 25 | As he never married and had no relations apart from us and one other person , my father always hoped we would inherit uncle John 's money . |