Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within seconds , it seemed , the casualty-room was full of people , all working with a kind of controlled intensity as everyone swung quietly into action . |
| 2 | Too much exclaiming and protesting would have aroused a degree of doubt as to his sincerity , but Herluin clearly felt that here was nothing worse than some confused stupidity among too many helpers in too much panic and haste , and what was lost would be found as soon as everyone calmed down and halted the hunt for a while to take thought . |
| 3 | ‘ As everyone knows now , lads like Sean Gregan are playing in the first team and will be regulars in the future . ’ |
| 4 | Though if he took his own life , as everyone has always supposed , and as we are still likely to be supposing after the present rumours have been scotched — if the balance of his mind was disturbed , that curious disruption which accompanies a man 's election to end his life , but never any other procedure , no matter how eccentric or irrational — then reasons are not to be looked for . |
| 5 | One advantage of Chinese celebrations is that they do not linger on , as everyone knocks off and goes home to bed at about 9 p.m . |
| 6 | It was some time after eleven when noises were made about turning in , though as everyone stood up , to her surprise , though not anyone else 's , Travis said he was n't ready for bed yet and was going out . |
| 7 | The banners we have are getting tatty as no-one worries very much how they are stored . |
| 8 | But he 's agreed to let Old Red fix him up with an appointment to see Mr Remington-Hart , which is sensible , as nothing sounds so truthful as the truth . ’ |
| 9 | A spare pair of stockings or tights should always be handy as nothing looks so unattractive as laddered tights . |
| 10 | Not even thinking to stop , Jack dashed through and then whirled round as someone yelled out , ‘ You ! ’ |
| 11 | With enough computational skill , a contoured ‘ stained-glass ’ window in a church , say , could show a whole sequence of devotional images as someone walked down the aisle towards it . |
| 12 | Glancing up as someone walked out , she recognized Caro waiting out there . |
| 13 | There was an angel watching over me , as someone had once predicted in my childhood when she read my fortune in the tea-leaves , in my cup of white china with the gilt shamrock on the rim and in the centre of the saucer . |
| 14 | But , as someone had once said to her — she could n't remember who — hate was only a hair 's breadth away from love . |
| 15 | Outside , sprockets whirred as someone rode past on a bicycle . |
| 16 | I mean I may maybe decriminalization is part of that but I , as someone said why sho , why should n't people take er , drugs if they want to , they 're allowed to take other drugs ? |
| 17 | As someone said before in his starts for Leeds his goals per match are pretty impressive , and he plays his heart out , not something I can say for Dean . |
| 18 | A wedge of frosty light clove a farmyard as someone stepped out to look at the stars in the russet sky . |
| 19 | He turned on her now , but was almost pushed aside as someone came out of the shop . |
| 20 | The door opened , and her presentiments were realised as someone moved stealthily across the carpeted floor , the narrow beam of a torch flitting over the low couch and the bureau set against the far wall . |
| 21 | As someone destroyed daily by the taunts and jeers of others he would now have the ability to destroy someone else in his turn . |
| 22 | ‘ As long as someone has n't parked on the patch of paint and taken it all away on their tyres . ’ |
| 23 | We pay something like one penny per square metre to cut grass and , as someone has already said , to an extent you get what you pay for . |
| 24 | name ; is a very respectable cook , so we make occasional trips to the supermarket and to the open market , and then eat at home in the evening , although we can also go out to a restaurant for a meal if we want , as someone has now kindly lent us a car . |
| 25 | We have now moved off the railway and appear to be moving across country , stopping and starting as someone scouts out ahead . |
| 26 | Though born in Britain , he regards himself as a citizen of Europe and Italy as his adopted home . |
| 27 | Over the years , Maud 's politics got busier and fiercer , as his became more tentative and abstract . |
| 28 | I got very depressed — there was no particular reason , just a lowering of spirits as I realized again that , for the foreseeable future , we were going nowhere . |
| 29 | He was a schoolboy at heart — as I realized later in life . |
| 30 | Twenty-three years in the business has all been the build-up for this , as I take on my most challenging role ever — bloody prompter ! ’ |