Example sentences of "as [pron] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel as futile as salmon arriving a day late for spawning , just as everyone is leaving satiated . |
| 2 | The scene is n't as great as everyone is making out . |
| 3 | As everyone is to pay an equal amount , the burden of tax will fall far more heavily on the poor than the rich . |
| 4 | as , you know , as , as everyone 's suggesting . |
| 5 | Just as everyone 's forgetting about Myra Hindley , there 's something in the newspaper again about her . |
| 6 | They are commemorated by a plaque on the alms-houses at nearby Burraton Combe , given in 1726 by James Buller ‘ … whose glorious memory as well as illustrious favours ought not to be forgotten but kept , as t is hoped they will be , in everlasting remembrance . ’ |
| 7 | The only equipment required is a detector and a set of headphones , as nothing is buried . |
| 8 | So long as you know how far it is to the line , and so long as someone is calling out the time to the start , you just need to judge your speed correctly . |
| 9 | you can do it because as you read through your notes as someone 's talking to you in the lecture you will be saying , Yeah of course of course . |
| 10 | I 'm very willing , but seeing as someone 's doing something for me , I 'm like you sure you do n't mind ? |
| 11 | ‘ We was in t'workhouse together and 'e 'll do as 'e 's told , which is more than a lot of 'usbands does . ’ |
| 12 | So long as yu is living an yu want eat food |
| 13 | We discuss the merits of lighting the Trangia , decide that as nobody is watching , a coffee in the camp café will be OK . |
| 14 | They may get away with a trick or two , but only for as long as nobody is watching too closely . |
| 15 | God , thought Madame , when she added up the night 's takings , one week I should write down who 's having who as well as who 's drinking what . |
| 16 | It 's a shame that someone as obviously capable of expressing himself as you is given to such bursts of undisguised racism and ignorance . |
| 17 | ‘ You do n't do as well as she 's done in the majors without being a very good player , ’ said Jim Webb , the LPGA 's deputy commissioner . |
| 18 | Cavell will want to hear what they are , as well as some appropriate biographical details for Press releases , as she 's handling the publicity angle for us . |
| 19 | She 'll do as she 's bid , and be grateful you 're young and whole . ’ |
| 20 | What if she has to be uprooted all over again , just as she 's getting used to her new school ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ She wo n't do as she 's told ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ She 'll do as she 's told , or lose the lot ! ’ |
| 23 | I remember Debbie bringing me home once from Bingo and he 's coming up as she 's coming up , she 's almost there too her house , and he would n't budge , he would n't back , he would n't reverse at all . |
| 24 | She 'll be wanting to set off just as soon as she 's finished her breakfast . ’ |
| 25 | But Miss Philimore seems to think she 's all right so long as she 's watched , and it would save me having to look for someone else . ’ |
| 26 | You would drive her as potty as she 's driving you . |
| 27 | I mean she used to toss , toss me off on the old and there 's , there 's and she used to sit on there used , used to sit on there she used to toss me off and I got this fucking as she 's tossing me off she did this love bite . |
| 28 | Self-pity evaporates as she 's drawn to playground attendant Billy , unhealthily in thrall to macho pack leader Len . |
| 29 | Myself and English , as she is taught in schools , came to a conflict and gradually to a more and more friendly agreement through the necessity of writing long letters daily to one who was neither a schoolboy nor an elder , the subject of the letters being matters concerning nobody else in the world . |
| 30 | ‘ Thank you , but my maid will do so ; she is drinking tea in the servants ’ quarters , and will come as soon as she is sent for . ’ |