Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 2 | I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence , and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from , but inherent in , my own immaterial nature . |
| 3 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 4 | Now that my sons are becoming more independent , I have time for myself and confidence in middle age that I lacked as a youngster . |
| 5 | It seems that I count as a visitor . ’ |
| 6 | The application to the local community is one that I put as a challenge to all : How can we help people to take seriously membership in the Eucharistic community of faith ? |
| 7 | As I have two young children , I fit my working time around school and sleep times so I am lucky to have a small room at home that I use as a studio . |
| 8 | One of my activities outside HTV , approved of by the company , is that I act as a consultant to a communication company and help to train industrialists , business executives and trade union officials who want to come to terms with the necessary techniques of appearing on television . |
| 9 | The executives agreed and asked that I act as the facilitator . |
| 10 | I should make it clear at the outset that I act as a parliamentary consultant to the Professional Association of Teachers and that much of what I shall say tonight will be based on the practical experience of PAT members . |
| 11 | Each of the parties recognises and acknowledges that I act as expert and as expert will , in carrying out my duties hereunder and in determination of any dispute referred to me , act in a quasi-judicial capacity . |
| 12 | That I take as a sort of axiom , as given to start with , in this argument . |
| 13 | That I take as a sort of axiom , as , as , as given to start with in this argument . |
| 14 | Milano is the variety that I regard as the standard among the enormous range of Italian salami . |
| 15 | However , not a penny will come from those places that I regard as the heart of military music — the forecourt of Buckingham Palace , Horse Guards Parade and the bandstands of towns and villages throughout the land . |
| 16 | Amaury de Craon wrote to Edward II from Sablé in November 1323 telling him that the ‘ great uneasiness of heart that I feel as a result of the dispute between you and your brother the king of France , our lord , and a desire to find ways , according to my humble ability , to prevent it , has emboldened me to write the following things ’ . |
| 17 | All I will say is that I reject as a model of justice the view which has temporarily gained favour in many developed societies : namely , the view that each person is entitled to what he can get , and let the next man look out for himself as best he can . |
| 18 | It does n't happen , and students are the poorer because the compounds that I see as old friends are more like enemies to them . |
| 19 | The limitations are the lack of footswitching between the clean/crunch and OD1/OD2 modes , and that I see as a drawback ( unless you find you prefer one or the other and stick to it ) . |
| 20 | Erm and I had to think up something that I do as a hobby er to teach other people . |
| 21 | And once I remember — I very faintly remember — that I flew as the buzzards and the ravens fly and all the great sky was mine . |
| 22 | The ‘ Snowball turnips that I used as a catch crop wherever a patch fell vacant were deliciously tender and sweet ; so too were the young ‘ Early Nantes ’ carrots I cropped among the ‘ Topper ’ shallots . |
| 23 | It was in September 1953 that I arrived as a new boy at Woolverstone Hall School and it may be that Ray was also new to the school . |
| 24 | ‘ Leo , ’ came a voice that I recognized as my mum 's . |
| 25 | Before the hon. Gentleman gets up , let me say that I worked as a probation officer in the King 's Cross area , which was one of the most difficult areas for homelessness in the 1970s . |
| 26 | Rokeya 's flat was so precisely as Lee remembered it that she felt as if no time had passed between the last time she had been inside it and the present day . |
| 27 | The relief of escaping from his company was so intense that she felt as if she 'd been wired up to an electric charge for the last few hours and someone had finally taken pity on her and turned off the power . |
| 28 | That being so , he was a joy to walk — which made it odd that she felt as if something was missing . |
| 29 | Lady Eden once remarked that she felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through her drawing room . |
| 30 | I am afraid that her reply was not as sympathetic as the contribution that she made as a Back Bencher when talking about Florence Smith . |