Example sentences of "as [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All she hoped was that her job was as secure as everyone had led her to believe . |
| 2 | He said he could not explain why the iceberg was moving west and not east ‘ as everyone had anticipated ’ . |
| 3 | erm we I mean we , we , we 've looked at the , the peasant tenant relationship erm and my , my opinion is that basically you know it was n't quite as bad as everyone 's made out erm but al okay we 're saying that warlords were , were very imperialistic and they were a huge fact to be considered but in Hunan and within the south erm eastern region say |
| 4 | She had rung the doorbell , but as no-one had come she had walked round the house to the garden . |
| 5 | There was very little noise as no-one had arrived — between twenty and thirty people were in the room — and we had this teeny stereo system about as big as a transistor radio for music . |
| 6 | Works like the transcriptions of Berlioz 's Fantastic Symphony , and the opera excerpts , Hexameron , the Ballades , Legends , Polonaises , and then there are those colossal religious pieces , some well known , others complete rarities ; all extend our appreciation and knowledge as no-one has done previously for Liszt 's piano music . |
| 7 | But we were losing and as someone had to get him off his backside I thought it might as well be me . ’ |
| 8 | While the fax machine is easy to use , it 's less attractive when it comes to mass faxing , as someone has to feed each document in and dial the destination . |
| 9 | As someone has said , it has three words beginning with the letter P — it is a philosophy armed with a plan and fought with passion . |
| 10 | But I too would want to say that ( as someone has expressed it ) we see God through a Christ-shaped window : I have no doubt that , as a western person , my understanding of God has , in part at least , been shaped by the person who was Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 11 | So as soon as someone has faced the critical nature of his dilemma without God ( the first level ) and has come to recognize that if God 's revelation is true he does have a meaningful answer to his dilemma ( the second level ) , then , logically , the next urgent question is , But how may I know that God 's revelation is true ? |
| 12 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 13 | ‘ The dragons might be there ; they might be real and they might be every bit as vicious as I 'd imagined , but I 'm a human being ; so was Adolf Hitler and he killed millions of people ! |
| 14 | But once I 'd taken the plunge and got myself organised , I found it was n't bad at all , and not nearly as difficult as I 'd imagined . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't be mad at her , though , she was only doing as I 'd asked . |
| 16 | I put a hand into the language space and drew the briefcase to the front ; and it was of black crocodile skin with gold clasps , as I 'd seen at Nottingham races . |
| 17 | ‘ But I was cautious about it too as I 'd seen both sides — the periods of unemployment as well as the glossy side of my father being in something so popular like Howards ' Way . ’ |
| 18 | I was quite impressed by this and since he was going back to England that evening I decided to go back as soon as I 'd seen him off . |
| 19 | I prayed as I 'd done a year before when Abed had attacked Bri . |
| 20 | ‘ The regiment saw an exhibition of my work and they commissioned it — which was very brave of them , in a way , as I 'd done very little before that . ’ |
| 21 | Needless to say , they went straight to the police , just as I 'd done when I received that first threat . |
| 22 | And then , for the first time ever in my life , I what I normally do is I have sort of maybe some questions that I definitely pre-plan and if I 'm lucky one or two of them , and this paper all three of my prepared questions actually came up exactly as I 'd worded them , or near enough . |
| 23 | It 's too bad , just as I 'd plucked up … . ’ |
| 24 | Imagine my shock when , just as I 'd begun thumping the bottom of the big brown pot , I chanced to look inside the bin and there , half buried in rubbish , was Cymbeline 's red plastic teapot . |
| 25 | I thought that as I 'd involved you all , to some extent , in the enquiries that were launched yesterday , I ought to inform you of the results of our search for the boy , Gerry Boden … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Not as well as I 'd hoped . |
| 27 | ‘ Tom 's not going to be as much help as I 'd hoped , either . |
| 28 | But , as I 'd hoped , it was too impatient . |
| 29 | I sha n't be coming to New York this spring as I 'd hoped because Monsieur Félix has decided to open a branch of the Maison de Verveine in London instead of New York ! |
| 30 | Com , coming out the back tell me how just as I 'd gone by the door and er |