Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We got so close , but as someone said it 's better to have tried than not . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ( -> ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | I hung my head , which I also nodded sombrely as I hung it . |
| 7 | By a supreme effort I managed to feed a few inches back into the vaginal opening but as soon as I relaxed it popped quietly out again . |
| 8 | Not everything was as I wished it , however . |
| 9 | I shall nevertheless vote against the motion and I shall vote for the amendment although as much as I wished it had happened or , or erm a different proposal to Mr because I do n't think it helps your argument when you call your opponents instead of arguing face and er unlike Mr I actually do believe its in subsidiarity and I think we should accept Leicester and Leicester only and what the Leicester hunt will do should be decided here in Leicester , not in Westminster , er any more than the composition of our offices should be , should be decided in Brussels and I believe in subsidiarity . |
| 10 | This followed my 1981 legislation which had introduced the first road-safety measures for fifteen years and was used ( as I knew it would be ) to introduce compulsory seat-belts . |
| 11 | I wondered , to quote a phrase used by Greg fifteen years before , was this going to be ‘ the end of family life as I knew it ’ ? |
| 12 | It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s . |
| 13 | This scared him , as I knew it would . |
| 14 | ‘ Sweet , ’ he murmured , ‘ as sweet as I knew it would be . ’ |
| 15 | Mr. Prince , aged 43 , said : ‘ I 'm a gardening fanatic , and became interested in buying the centre as soon as I heard it was available . |
| 16 | I took a quick breath of relief as I heard it ; the engine of another boat , throttling down to a murmur as she crept into the bay . |
| 17 | But even as I heard it , I knew it was not a revolver . |
| 18 | ‘ As I heard it , my lord , he 's already gone back to Hereford . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm very glad you clarified that Mr because certainly I not as I heard it er and I 'm very pleased that was clarified and I think others would have felt likewise . |
| 20 | That seemed to me to be a nice balance — good for our shareholders , good for our company and good for the country , as I saw it . |
| 21 | I knew as soon as I saw it in the garden sale catalogue , it was unmistakeable . ’ |
| 22 | Answering questions , I told the press the situation as I saw it . |
| 23 | As I saw it , they were either downmarket Wimpy bars or precious bistros where all you could hear were the sounds of the cutlery hitting the plate , and people would cough before speaking because they had n't said anything for such a long time , what with all the hush . |
| 24 | Boss Ian Porterfield said : ‘ As I saw it , Dean Saunders came down on his leg but whether Paul twisted it as well we do n't know . |
| 25 | Besides , I looked all of it over as soon as I saw it , persuaded the caretaker there to show us around . ’ |
| 26 | As soon as I saw it , I knew it was for you . ’ |
| 27 | As I saw it , supply siders were dedicated to capitalist wealth distribution , whereas the politicians were dedicated to socialist wealth redistribution . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The problem was , as I saw it , that it had to be a children 's programme and still attract adults and teenagers . |
| 29 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
| 30 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |