Example sentences of "[adv] as i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , My Lords , I entirely disagree with the Noble Lord er furthermore as I 've already said we 're talking the builders site not the library in today 's question . |
| 2 | What happens there is that a ‘ really gay ’ reading of Coward is put into play , much as I have already done with Brief Encounter , but on the grounds that a homosexual writer can only write about homosexuality ( analogous cases would be the insistence that Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is ‘ really ’ about a gay couple , or that Tennessee Williams 's Blanche Dubois is nothing but a transposed drag queen ) . |
| 3 | Much as I feel now at your damned silly question ! |
| 4 | The press were trying to build up a great rivalry between Ben and me , especially as I had never raced him . |
| 5 | Greatly as I admire both the man and his work , I consider Max Beerbohm a dangerous influence — just how dangerous one must perhaps have been brought up in England to know . |
| 6 | The main reason is obviously as I said earlier in my in my erm summary of my statement , to reduce congestion , reduce delays , to reduce accidents and to give scope for environmental improvements within the urban area . |
| 7 | I could walk as fast as I ever did but I tended to roll my shoulders and turn my three-toed foot in as I did so . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , such a day , and to stroll along as I did so many times in the old days . |
| 9 | I spent as much time wondering how the dome was held together as I did actually climbing . |
| 10 | Who can dispute the fact that , if the figures were not as I have just announced and if industrial relations had not improved , we could not have attracted our record level of inward investment from across the world ? |
| 11 | ‘ He flew away just as I 'd nearly got him . ’ |
| 12 | I had no intention then , or ever after , of joining any group or ‘ movement ’ and I therefore sidestepped the Vorticists just as I sidestepped both the Imagists and the Amygists . |
| 13 | We 've just as I 've just said , we 've just finished reorganising our department . |
| 14 | I have a grand-niece , my brother 's granddaughter , and two Saturdays ago I went to see her dance in Denver — and she danced just as I 've always wanted to dance . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Just as I 've always visualised it . |
| 16 | Just as I 've always looked ? ’ she added archly . |
| 17 | ‘ How did people look after the sick and helpless ? ’ — ‘ Just as I do nowadays : I collect money from the people , and I give it to them . |
| 18 | Signe saw the policeman just as I pulled away from the kerb . |
| 19 | I screamed and pulled with all my might , shaking my hands and my head and throwing myself backwards and over as I did so , banging one knee off the gun where it lay , fallen in the sand . |
| 20 | Er normally as I said earlier payable at the age of sixty erm and the benefits are based on average salary which is the best three hundred and sixty five days out of the last ten ninety five so it 's the best year out of the last three years salary . |
| 21 | It was exactly as I had always imagined the Dark Ages to be , and in its terrible way it was apt . |
| 22 | Anyway Maggie says oh bugger it she says here you are I 'll pay for it so I give it her back as soon as I come home . |
| 23 | I 'd be alright as long as I could go on a route where all I had to do was turn left but as soon as I turn right |
| 24 | I 'll say them as soon as I go upstairs . ’ |
| 25 | Because as soon as I go upstairs I 'm wide awake . |
| 26 | erm because erm completely irrelevant and as soon as I go away from it er erm you know there 's times when it 's quite confusing really . |
| 27 | As soon as I get indoors I 'll just have to ask again — ask Mum once more . |
| 28 | As soon as I get home I shall give it him back . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll telephone him as soon as I get home , ’ Rachel said under her breath , and slid into the car . |
| 30 | As soon as I dropped about 70 feet down towards the restaurant , via the tourist runway with its ridiculous little suburban garden fences bordering the steps , the wind ceased and I stepped out of the snow . |