Example sentences of "[adv] as i [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Squeeze them in sure we 'll find somewhere for them to go , vacate , so long as I get a kiss from everybody apart from the boys and |
| 2 | Officially speaking anyway , just as I have a passport . |
| 3 | Equality brings emancipation : according to Marx it will be ‘ possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow , to hunt in the morning , fish in the afternoon , rear cattle in the evening , criticise after dinner , just as I have a mind without ever becoming hunter , fisherman , shepherd or critic ’ . |
| 4 | They 'll say I took advantage of a widow 's grief to marry her for her money , then cold-bloodedly ditched her as soon as I had a chance . |
| 5 | As soon as I get a draft I 'll I 'll let you know what the perfections are . |
| 6 | I shall make an announcement as soon as I reach a decision . |
| 7 | As soon as I heard a journalist say , ‘ John McCartney ? |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll arrange a press briefing as soon as I have a base and something to say ; meanwhile , all I can tell you is that early this morning Matthew Glynn , the bookseller , was found dead in his office in circumstances suggesting foul play . ’ |
| 9 | Well as soon as I have a window in my diary which I 'm not |
| 10 | The sharp miniature flakes that covered the rock like fish scales cut into my finger tips and felt as though they would break as soon as I placed a toe on them . |
| 11 | AS SOON as I see a screen full of Florida palm fronds , broken down clapboard houses and Cadillacs full of heaving , unhappy women , I know we are in for an Erotic Thriller . |
| 12 | As soon as I mentioned an Easter wedding they brought up the Royal . ’ |
| 13 | I stroke it gratefully as I raise a counter-objection to Lesser 's counter-proposals . |
| 14 | I faced this onslaught yesterday as I became an assistant in Selfridges on the second day of their sale . |
| 15 | I often think of them now as I share a strawberry daiquiri with Morrissey and Loz from Kingmaker in the Hyatt Buenos Aires . |
| 16 | as far as I know a thrift to be a large mongoose inhabiting the |
| 17 | You know as well as I do a child was never born to Miss Lavant . |
| 18 | But , remarkable or not , this is what we say ; there is this language game in which what happens later ( 7–8 , 14 , etc. , cf. 100 ) is the criterion ( 22 ) of my meaning someone , or something : asked whether I wanted Jones to come , I answer almost as I answer a question about my present sensations ( 7 ) and yet I say , ‘ I meant you , not Jones . ’ |