Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well none of the others looked as young as them did they ? |
| 2 | Just as everyone took it for granted that the young Scot was on the point of fulfilling the potential she had shown in the amateur game , so she stopped in her tracks . |
| 3 | If you believe in public transport , as everyone says they do , this development is inescapable and very desirable . |
| 4 | Rebecca ( or ‘ Becky ’ as everyone calls her ) picked up the plane and , noticing that there was writing on it , slowly unfolded it . |
| 5 | JOHN KASMIN , or ‘ Kasmin ’ , as everyone calls him , has come up with the ultimate solution to the art slump . |
| 6 | Moving to Microsoft Corp Windows NT technology may not be as traumatic as everyone makes it out to be , says ComputerWorld . |
| 7 | She was followed by Rabbi Moishe , his sallow face with its rippling white beard inclining first to one side and then to the other as everyone did him honour by rising until he had passed , and just behind him came another black-garbed figure , a bespectacled priest , greying head covered by a yarmulkah . |
| 8 | We got so close , but as someone said it 's better to have tried than not . ’ |
| 9 | Mind you it 'll probably be fine and anyway as someone said it 'll be good to widen the group a bit more and launch some journalistic careers into the bargain ( -> ) . |
| 10 | The friar turned as someone tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 11 | He gave me a self-conscious grin and then yelped as someone thumped him in the back . |
| 12 | So long as someone knows you 're down there and comes to dig you out , then a basement 's always best , even if the rest goes down like a pack of cards . ’ |
| 13 | But erm , the people like and the left , did n't like the book either , because it did n't tell their particular interpretation , as kind of left Marxist er , interpretation as someone has it , was so popular at the time . |
| 14 | As soon as someone gives you ten to the minus eight , you can say , Well if I want to convert that into real money , |
| 15 | Hence some policewomen deliberately seek out desk jobs — secretaries with uniforms , as someone described them — or jobs as drivers , in juvenile liaison , or in units which deal with sex crimes , because they see themselves as better suited to this type of work . |
| 16 | Libby would not watch ; she hated the high-pitched squealing as the rabbits panicked , hearing a stick thump or a shot ring out , seeing the warm fur parting in the breeze as someone threw it down beside the other corpses . |
| 17 | Here and there a fight broke out , girls screeched as someone goosed them , lovers clung together and ignored all that went on around them , pickpockets worked their art furiously and everyone set out to enjoy themselves . |
| 18 | As I drank them in , a roar of engines sounded . |
| 19 | ‘ I managed to punch my boilie out to the edge of a gravel bar about 60 yeards out , but I had to play the fish towards the top as I brought it in because there are a lot of boulders on the bottom , ’ explained Lee . |
| 20 | Well , as soon as I realized I stopped . |
| 21 | A shiver ran up my spine and into my scalp , as I realized he was singing ‘ Mary from Dunloe ’ . |
| 22 | It will certainly seem so to the Englishman ( as I take him to be ) , who found in the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley — Pound 's most explicit farewell to England , as he prepared to leave her in 1918 — ‘ externality : an externality which , considering what Mauberley attempts , is utterly disabling ’ . |
| 23 | As I take them off I give them names , the names of people and the names of things . |
| 24 | The subtitle contains , as I take it , a deliberate ambiguity , for most of the book is concerned with managing in the sense of coping , but in the last chapter Penzias dilates on how technologically based organisations should be run . |
| 25 | If that view is correct , as I take it to be , then the non-use of gas is one area in which the laws-of-war approach on the one hand , and the deterrence approach on the other , may have complemented each other . |
| 26 | I 'm not needed here until this Aldhelm has played his part and pointed the finger at your Tutilo , as I take it you 're certain he will before the night 's out . |
| 27 | If he/she fails to comply promptly , say , ‘ If you do not do as I asked you immediately you will have to sit on the chair in the hall . ’ |
| 28 | Would you had brought Undry to me as I asked you ! |
| 29 | As the PAL:YPE recalls , this impression was based on a combination of physical environment , staff vision , and an existing commitment to an infrastructure including a permanent part-time library assistant : School A I was impressed with , because they too had already started to talk about resource-based learning and they already had as far as I remember … ( now my memory is fairly vague now because it is quite a long time ago ) … but as far as I remember they had a Headmaster , who was extremely interested , very keen indeed , and they had a committee already set up , I think to look into this . |
| 30 | Yes th as I remember they did the other side of first . |