Example sentences of "as [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that meant that the universe could not be static , as everyone previously had thought , but is in fact expanding ; the distance between the different galaxies is growing all the time . |
| 2 | The nightwatchman sat on the bamboo bench at the side of the road as everyone else went to bed . |
| 3 | He ran towards the remains of the café as everyone else ran away . |
| 4 | They saw Hollywood films , just as everyone else did , and many made valiant efforts to learn from American filmmaking styles . |
| 5 | Like most Chinese children unfortunate enough to grow up in the Sixties , Zeng 's education was severely disrupted by the Cultural Revolution , and he had to sit through the shouting matches and brain-washing sessions just as everyone else did . |
| 6 | True it is frustrating that Rocastle is n't even on the bench , and it is bewildering why Wilko did n't notice the totally crap defence we 've got as quickly as everyone else did , but that 's no reason to have a go ( the chants were virtually to a man I would say ) . |
| 7 | But what you carry away in the back of your eye is the image of two very still figures , in foetal folds , on the platform of that truck as everyone else dived for cover . |
| 8 | It 's because you waited as no-one else did . |
| 9 | And there , as someone else said , erm earlier , organizing their party , the day of their life which happens to be also their wedding day , and those sort of parties are far more fun to work at than the far more stilted family affairs that do happen for younger people . |
| 10 | Brighton , as someone memorably said , looks like a town that is helping police with their inquiries . |
| 11 | As someone once said : he 's the sort of player you cheer when he scores a try against your side . |
| 12 | The Land of the Fast Buck , as someone once said . |
| 13 | And as someone once said , it 's not the long words that we should worry about , it 's the short ones . |
| 14 | As someone once told me ‘ The best things to have are memories ; no one can ever take them away from you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Have you read the latest Antonia Byatt ? /been to Rajastan ? ’ or , as someone recently asked me , ‘ Do you think Jasper Conran is the new Yves St Laurent ? ’ |
| 16 | No envelopes that I had brought were suitable , so that night I made several of them , as I regularly did , strengthening ordinary ones with sticky tape , and making reusable fasteners out of wire from abandoned tyres . |
| 17 | Lorne was dangling over the bowsprit filming as I firmly held his legs , when he was taken off-guard by a violent lurch and dropped our wide-angle lens cap overboard . |
| 18 | In 1963 ( I believe ) was appointed Director of the Communication research Centre , and soon after became the first Professor of Linguistics at U.C.L. ( as I soon came to know him ) was a charismatic teacher and delightfully friendly person , and I benefitted greatly from close contact with him in 1963–4 , when he was Director of the Communication Research Centre , and I was Assistant Director . |
| 19 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 20 | These I was given , but , as I soon discovered , directions which would have taken me there in an almost straight line . |
| 21 | In fact , as I soon discovered , these ruins are inhabited . |
| 22 | He is also quite charming , with an attractive dry sense of humour , as I soon discovered over a beautifully prepared meal at his spacious London home . |
| 23 | Although , as I soon found out , the Russians themselves were models of inefficiency and poor organization , they nevertheless believed that anything that went wrong was a deliberate act of sabotage rather than the normal sort of mistake which occurs in every large organization . |
| 24 | By thirteen , I had become his eyes and ears as I already knew the name of every worthwhile trader of fruit and vegetables in Covent Garden . |
| 25 | Moreover , as I already observed , the social mechanisms which assigned each group different and non-competitive niches , are eroding or are politically unacceptable . |
| 26 | at the Gateshead National Garden Festival from 1989 to 1990 that was alright , then last September 1990 and with the end of the festival in site I had a dread of going back on the dole as I already spent seven years on the dole previously through no-fault of my own . |
| 27 | ‘ As I already said , ’ Rogers told him . |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps not , but , as I already told you , I grew up in the business , ’ she returned hotly . |
| 29 | He came after me , but he stopped when he saw me go inside ( as I instinctively knew he would — the only safe place from him was down here ) . |
| 30 | ‘ I have met the Luciferi , ’ I replied , and heard Madame Ralemberg moan as I briefly described my assailants in the alleyway and the appearance of my mysterious protectors . |