Example sentences of "a [noun sg] as i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is simply a case as I said in my summary that er er C One is a policy that is applicable , because it 's a conservation area . |
| 2 | They must have been watching from a hill-top as I rode towards them because suddenly I was surrounded by a company of about 40 soldiers , all aged between 17 and 18 years . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ I brushed past a girl as I went to the toilet and she yelled I 'd done it deliberately . |
| 4 | ‘ Not as much of a fool as I tried to be . |
| 5 | Jamie sat in silence for a while as I went from screenful to screenful of wheeling , whining craft . |
| 6 | A beggar rooted in a bin as I walked along the riverside . |
| 7 | The woman brought me a chair as I bent over her , both my hands enclosing the weak one which lay on the bedcovers . |
| 8 | And er there r there are no real er gentry in Orkney you see , and you 'll always find that if anybody gets a a a Well as I said to one boy here , I said to him look here I said your old grandfather worked in that shop till his backside was hanging out his brigs . |
| 9 | Paul was trying to catch fish in a pool as I looked at the thing . |
| 10 | He slipped through the door and pulled up a stool as I lay on the bed . |
| 11 | I did this top bottom up so that my dad would n't call me a tart as I walked out the house and I forgot to undo it again ! |