Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as long as everyone recognizes that for an area of that size , er conditions will vary within it . |
| 2 | It had taken her nearly ten years to do so , ‘ as everyone said that we have enough societies in Bedford already ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ But as soon as someone says that four-letter word , it will be ‘ do you have to use that language ? ’ |
| 4 | It came to me as I listened that I did n't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment , that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through , because all I had been through was my being there . |
| 5 | I wondered why I had n't had the wit to take the starveling cat to Mother Joseph as soon as I knew that Nour might kill it . |
| 6 | Then I felt my fear and unhappiness disappear , as I knew that I was no longer alone in my responsibility for Sir Henry . |
| 7 | Although this might suggest otherwise , I was all the time working hard for Schools , as I knew that Eliot , now my mentor in most things , would have strongly urged me to do . |
| 8 | AS SOON as I heard that voice the decades fell like playing cards . |
| 9 | ‘ I came as soon as I heard that Elinor was … ill . |
| 10 | As soon as I heard that Mr Hudd would be linesman today I begged the League to appoint a different official . |
| 11 | But as soon as I saw that little boy I knew it was n't Ben . |
| 12 | I knew that one as soon as I saw that it was from that is was a reject one . |
| 13 | I felt a strong feeling of nausea as I realised that I had put my hand through the chest of a dead British soldier that could have been lying in the ditch for several days . |
| 14 | My heart ached for her as I realised that she had joined the ranks of so many others I had known , who had watched their men fly off into the dusk , never to be heard of again . |
| 15 | Just as I realised that we would have to abort our manoeuvre in view of the ship 's overhanging davits there was a loud exclamation from the man on deck , " I say , Cynthia , the captain 's got a blasted parrot on his shoulder . " |
| 16 | And , as soon as I realised that , as soon as I thought about his breakdown , I started to worry , I started to see just how unstable he still was . |
| 17 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 18 | Tears came to my eyes as I thought that this was my and Miss Louise 's fault . |
| 19 | I was challenged about that — I do not know why , as I thought that the position was clear . |
| 20 | Alternatively , is the right hon. Gentleman implying — as I thought that he was in some of his remarks — that legal aid would be generally available to those appearing before adjudicators or tribunals , and that they could secure representation from any part of the legal profession ? |
| 21 | Christy O'Connor Jnr played on the second morning and Jose Maria Canizares in the afternoon and although they did n't give me any points I felt it was important that they got a chance to taste the atmosphere and feel a part of the proceedings , as I thought that it would help them going into the singles . |
| 22 | ‘ Well ’ — he turned and looked towards the window — ‘ I noticed as I passed that you had a box of Havana cigars , the … the Excepcionales . |
| 23 | What do you think as I fear that putting it right may be a costly job ? |
| 24 | Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead . |
| 25 | We must think Jim of those people as I said that we are responsible for . |
| 26 | The correct factual position is as I said that er the County Planning Committee or the County Council has not considered that document . |
| 27 | Now another thing as I said that she looked at in terms of clusters was the centre line . |
| 28 | He drinks it too quick Jonathan , as I said that ai n't the drink you should drink |
| 29 | It seems odd that I should be expected to pay for the privilege of assisting in this way , in particular , as I doubt that these changes will alleviate the falling numbers of applicants to medical schools in the UK . |
| 30 | As I know that many Presbyterian loyalists are decent , courageous Christian men and women , I wrote to the editor and begged to be excused from his dictum . |