Example sentences of "[vb -s] as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carmichael frowns as I tell him what happened on the Island yesterday . |
| 2 | It 's interesting to note that actually now we 've since made that decision the residual has as I 've said come down to nine four seven , so if we do have a new settlement of fourteen hundred we 're already ending up with a a higher level of proposed development for Greater York now , the nine seven would obviously be exceeded if we had a fourteen hundred new settlement within Greater York . |
| 3 | It is certainly not enough to face reality bluntly if the future develops as I describe it . |
| 4 | She shouts as I enter her . |
| 5 | I am in a little lane that runs across the front of the hillside , with a kind of broken roadway underfoot which disintegrates as I follow it into gravel studded with outcrops of manhole . |
| 6 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
| 7 | She says as I say I 'll have to wait and see what she says , because she said , you know when weather gets better , oh I says you 're better off waiting while it gets better weather |
| 8 | The thin paper in my hand flutters as I drop it onto the bed . |
| 9 | Councillor I I had to admit that I 'm slightly lost in that one A now ends as I understand it with the roman numeral three that was proposed in the labour amendment . |
| 10 | When the honest shopper acts as I have just described , he or she is acting with the implied authority of the owner of the supermarket to take the goods from the shelf , put them in the trolley , take them to the checkpoint and there pay the correct price , at which moment the property in the goods will pass to the shopper for the first time . |
| 11 | The cot side rattles as I lower it . |
| 12 | Coasting over the top our weight reduces as I relax the back pressure . |
| 13 | Then you started on with that high-handed act , and I felt a tremendous urge to tame your proud spirit , hear your soft whimpering sighs as I buried myself in you . |
| 14 | But what if glass breaks as I make it ? |
| 15 | How could a man who feels as I do , who writes what I have written , behave towards a woman — any woman — in ways remotely akin to the ones which have been suggested ? |
| 16 | I walk around in it for a while anyway , watching myself approach in the mirror and admiring the way the skirt moves as I walk . |
| 17 | The rain eases as I head west ; I catch the last of a wide , bloody-looking sunset over Skye and the Kyles and the floodlights turning Eilean Donan 's grey stones green ; I make it to Strome in four hours twenty minutes from home , arriving just as the stars are coming out above in the purple spaces between the dark , heavy clouds . |
| 18 | Lucker has fallen asleep , but stirs as I walk through the door . |
| 19 | What it means as I said before , is that ten or fifteen years ago , that number of people got infected , so now ten fifteen years on , we usually multiply by at least a hundred , so we 're really talking about thousands of people living with H I V , and probably unaware of the fact that they have it . |
| 20 | I now turn to the adoption minutes of city hall and now it is a process of in that city hall did not endorse a recommendation from the finance panel , the budget that came from finance panel erm so we are in the slightly unusual position of having to debate the proposals of finance panel as we were recommended to do by city hall , erm that means as I understand it that er the chair of city hall will now present the annual budget statement erm and since he is going to do that in a form of an amendment er that seven other unusual features about the way in which we would normally do it which would mean that there would be er a budget statement and where there would then be the the formal proposals and amendments themself , erm so what I would propose is to try and make sure that everybody has , has maximum opportunity to have their say erm because no two amendments can be on the floor at one time er to take what the leader of the council said first of all erm then to allow the other two leaders to present their budget alternatives as it were , without it be , this is just not did n't take it at that point if they do n't want to . |
| 21 | In 1984 the final phase of the black majority 's struggle for democracy in white-dominated South Africa began , and continues as I write . |
| 22 | If Kim does as I wish — if he comes up with the answers I want — then I will tear up this document . |
| 23 | I suggest that she does as I have done , pops down to her local computer shop and purchases an anti-static bracelet and strap . |
| 24 | She whimpers as I twist a little harder and drag her to the cloakroom , to keep out of Merchant 's way . |
| 25 | Auto freaks as I called them |
| 26 | He watches as I hold it in . |
| 27 | I hope it works as I admire any attempt to bring a book more awareness . |