Example sentences of "but as [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , she must also have been thinking of Annabelle ( bride 's name ) when she added , ‘ She was of course only too good for him : but as nobody minds what is too good for them , he was very steadily earnest in pursuit of the blessing . ’ |
| 2 | But as we walked we began to notice mounting excitement among the people in the streets and in the cafés . |
| 3 | Yeah , they 're all listed are n't but as we came we came in the way we would come , I 'm a bit ignorant , so I suppose we were |
| 4 | But as we made our way down through the trees , I realized that even if I 'd been better at baling I could never have carried that load : my forehead hurt , my neck felt stiff and strained , and the pine-needles on the path , compressed and polished by thousands of feet , were as slippery as glass . |
| 5 | The future will not be as God/dess or fate decrees , but as we design it . |
| 6 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 7 | We all felt happy about this and began to walk towards a distant wood , but as we approached it we saw two figures emerging : the priest we had come to see arm in arm with an attractive girl . |
| 8 | Painting was to become intellectual , and the painters would depict the world not as they saw it , but as they knew it to be . |
| 9 | But as they seized her by the mantle , she shook it from her shoulders , folded two of her children in her arms and floated away through a window , never more to be seen by her husband and the two children she had left behind . |
| 10 | But as they said it I felt something being pulled round my neck . |
| 11 | But as they analyse what he has said to different people , they begin to see that the question is not really pertinent . |
| 12 | As young animals most are carnivorous , but as they mature they consumer more vegetable matter in their diet . |
| 13 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |
| 14 | But as they made their getaway the gang crashed into a lorry , and then panicked hijacking four cars at gunpoint , and opening fire on police . |
| 15 | But as they checked their tiny forces — a hundred or so ashore — the first German Stosstruppen , Thrust Troops , were moving into the docks over the bridges of the submarines ' basin 's southern lock ( 'D' ) at 0150 hours . |
| 16 | ‘ There was a party came over from Prince 's , trollies and all , but as they paid we could hardly object . ’ |
| 17 | The adventurers have to head for the hill , but as they do it appears that the grey trees begin to grow and spread up the hillside . |
| 18 | For one uncertain moment she thought they were in each other 's arms , but as they welcomed her warmly , she decided that she had been mistaken . |
| 19 | We got so close , but as someone said it 's better to have tried than not . ’ |
| 20 | This is not supposed to be fiction , but as I write I find myself obliged to make a judgement about Leavitt . |
| 21 | But as I said they need have no fear . |
| 22 | I know but as I said they have you by the short and curlies . |
| 23 | Er n back to these snaps that erm John takes but as I said they 're pictures of the rooms before he alters them , before he puts in a new decor , th the upholstery , furnishings and the erm |
| 24 | you know it 's not , not , it 's not like Benidorm or anything like that it 's it 's somewhere like , it 's about seven miles away from the sea , but as I said they |
| 25 | It is detailed alright but as I said what they 've written is detailed enough but they 've missed out erm various things that we needed to know |
| 26 | But er it certainly did a lot for the bakers but as I said it certainly took away the happy family union that we had before . |
| 27 | We have n't been trying hard to persuade the Garrimperos to adopt different technologies , more modern technologies that would avoid the contamination of the mercury , but as I said I believe the only way of reaching this goal is if we can organize the Garrimperos to have er a kind of er institutionalized way of exploiting gold , not the sort of gold rush i that is being on and on On and off in Brazil for two centuries right now . |
| 28 | The general manager of LUFC is called Alan Roberts , but as I said I only heard half the story . |
| 29 | I heard his name mentioned once … but as I said there was no coverage really . |
| 30 | But as I studied him any aggressive feelings I may have harboured evaporated quickly . |