Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | But , as someone had once said to her — she could n't remember who — hate was only a hair 's breadth away from love . |
| 4 | Outside , sprockets whirred as someone rode past on a bicycle . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As someone destroyed daily by the taunts and jeers of others he would now have the ability to destroy someone else in his turn . |
| 8 | Though born in Britain , he regards himself as a citizen of Europe and Italy as his adopted home . |
| 9 | Over the years , Maud 's politics got busier and fiercer , as his became more tentative and abstract . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was a schoolboy at heart — as I realized later in life . |
| 12 | Imprinting , as I remarked earlier , illustrates the principle of ‘ sensitive periods ’ ; it is usually established during a specific period early in the animal 's life . |
| 13 | As I looked sadly at my hands and boots , I remembered that I was only a common working boy , and wished I could be different . |
| 14 | As I looked closer they began to open their wings , and suddenly it was a though purple brooches had been pinned about the bracken to catch the sunlight . |
| 15 | As I looked closely , I could see it was a skull . |
| 16 | But none of this disturbed my mind or my body as I looked across at the girl in the coffee bar . |
| 17 | I must have made thousands over those university years , much to the annoyance of my own family , as I 'd rarely made the effort for them . |
| 18 | It was obvious from the moment she came into the house that Dawn , as I 'd immediately christened her ( after all , I 'd had three weeks to dream up the name ) , was a real character . |
| 19 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 20 | ‘ He flew away just as I 'd nearly got him . ’ |
| 21 | It was about it was the same as I 'd probably got if I 'd have gone to the pit at fourteen . . |
| 22 | As I 'd already discovered that for myself , I started thinking . |
| 23 | The two halves of the heart did not ease apart as I 'd fancifully imagined , but clung desperately round one another like drowning lovers . |
| 24 | Professionally , this is as far as I 'd ever imagined going . |
| 25 | The living room was as pristine as I 'd ever seen it . |
| 26 | Dusk deepened until I could no longer see ten yards ahead , and after I 'd knocked the shaft of the arrow against an unseen hazard twice within a minute I stopped and sank slowly down to my knees , resting my forehead and the front of my left shoulder against a young birch trunk , drained as I 'd never been before . |
| 27 | The floorboards had n't snapped , as I 'd originally thought : they 'd gone down into the dock with Harry . |
| 28 | I remember thinking something unprintable as I flew through the air and remember wishing I 'd worn a body protector as I landed very hard . |
| 29 | There was no one around in the hall to see me as I stepped inside . |
| 30 | People 's faces swung sideways as I tunnelled backwards into my cab . |