Example sentences of "as [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that meant that the universe could not be static , as everyone previously had thought , but is in fact expanding ; the distance between the different galaxies is growing all the time . |
| 2 | They buy only records on import from Outer Mongolia and stop playing them as soon as everyone else does ; they refuse to watch films without foreign subtitles , never read hardbacks , and will not enter a club if the general public can also get in . |
| 3 | I wear jeans to university , as everyone else does . |
| 4 | I should n't criticise it as everyone else does , because without the M25 , it would be impossible to get to all of the six clubs that we have built , strung out like pearls , ( or glass beads , my critics would tell you ) around its perimeter . |
| 5 | The nightwatchman sat on the bamboo bench at the side of the road as everyone else went to bed . |
| 6 | He ran towards the remains of the café as everyone else ran away . |
| 7 | They saw Hollywood films , just as everyone else did , and many made valiant efforts to learn from American filmmaking styles . |
| 8 | Like most Chinese children unfortunate enough to grow up in the Sixties , Zeng 's education was severely disrupted by the Cultural Revolution , and he had to sit through the shouting matches and brain-washing sessions just as everyone else did . |
| 9 | True it is frustrating that Rocastle is n't even on the bench , and it is bewildering why Wilko did n't notice the totally crap defence we 've got as quickly as everyone else did , but that 's no reason to have a go ( the chants were virtually to a man I would say ) . |
| 10 | But what you carry away in the back of your eye is the image of two very still figures , in foetal folds , on the platform of that truck as everyone else dived for cover . |
| 11 | One is the right to exactly equal treatment , that is , to the same distribution of goods or opportunities as everyone else has . |
| 12 | You have a right to use public areas in the pursuance of your lawful hobby in the same way as everyone else has . |
| 13 | Let Antoinette have it , just as everyone always planned . ’ |
| 14 | If , as everyone now insists , Noah had made up his mind not to continue as Davis Cup captain well before the match against Switzerland , then the decision can not have had anything to do with his obvious annoyance that , in his eyes , neither Henri Leconte or Guy Forget had properly prepared for the tie . |
| 15 | As everyone now knows , this unique experiment was a success , and mankind obtained a witness of human life on Earth three million years ago . |
| 16 | It 's because you waited as no-one else did . |
| 17 | Mark : " I do believe in God — it makes sense to me as nothing else does . " |
| 18 | His absence the previous day had brought that home as nothing else had . |
| 19 | There is the thought that this story might fulfil me as nothing ever has done in all my life previous to this . |
| 20 | Sibbes described him as someone well versed in ‘ controverted points of divinity ’ and , with the exception of John Pym , no MP in the late 1620s was more vigorous in his efforts to demonstrate the dangers presented by Arminianism . |
| 21 | And there , as someone else said , erm earlier , organizing their party , the day of their life which happens to be also their wedding day , and those sort of parties are far more fun to work at than the far more stilted family affairs that do happen for younger people . |
| 22 | And as someone else pointed out yesterday , he always leaves Deane on no matter how unhappy a game he 's been having — against L'pool a brill Wallace came off in the 8 ? th minute , an unsettled-looking Deane stayed on , and the crowd went bananas at Wilko . |
| 23 | The back : Naturally , you can not do your own as soothingly as someone else doing it for you . |
| 24 | Moll also otters what in this period is an exceptional awareness of the prostitute as someone sexually exploited because of economic and other kinds of social subjection : |
| 25 | Some lingering race memory remained though , some pervading conviction common to all Orientals , that this life was but one of many on the great wheel of existence and that reincarnation as someone better endowed or worse ( in his case surely worse ) awaited him . |
| 26 | Brighton , as someone memorably said , looks like a town that is helping police with their inquiries . |
| 27 | As someone once said : he 's the sort of player you cheer when he scores a try against your side . |
| 28 | The Land of the Fast Buck , as someone once said . |
| 29 | And as someone once said , it 's not the long words that we should worry about , it 's the short ones . |
| 30 | As someone once told me ‘ The best things to have are memories ; no one can ever take them away from you . ’ |