Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] as i " in BNC.
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1 | I kept thinking about that reception as I drove blissfully home . |
2 | On Monday there was the English paper — mainly Twelfth Night , which was money for old rope as I had played Feste at school . |
3 | ’ Just barely , ’ I said through gritted teeth as I struggled to my feet . |
4 | I had known the family for some years as I had been Mrs Singh 's English tutor on a local authority adult literacy programme . |
5 | COOK 'S NOTE : I tend not to use virgin olive oil for this dip as I find the flavour too strong for the roe . |
6 | I have deliberately placed this design idea at least halfway through this chapter as I feel , despite looking quite easy , it is in fact one of the more difficult designs to perfect . |
7 | As I understand my terms of reference , I can call for such accounts as I wish . |
8 | Write down the contents of each pocket as I call them out . " |
9 | Everyone 's life is different , and so I wanted to hear from as wide a variety of teenage mothers as I could . |
10 | However I tend to score it much much on a much lower scale because A of the need for the associated infrastructure involved , that will have a very severe impact , and B ma'am the landscape quality , there is the area is of some is of some quality , it is not an area of derelict land as I say . |
11 | I also understand from meetings , I 'm meeting a group of social workers as I call them , that are dealing with the people with learning difficulties , erm , these are at present taking place in the Castle Hall . |
12 | Let me leave you there for the moment with my views of high morale as I saw it , and I saw a great deal of it during my constant circuit within the Command . |
13 | Let us look now at some problems of this neo-fundamentalism as I have observed them in modern church life . |
14 | ‘ Most important is to have the physical and mental strength to be as successful at the end of this season as I was at the beginning of 1990 . |
15 | The whole process was serviced and kept running by as exceptional a staff of civil servants as I ever worked with in over ten years as a Cabinet minister . |
16 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
17 | I had a vision thus prospectively of these birds as I stood in the swamps . |
18 | I am convinced that zander often shoal up or gather in great numbers when they are not hunting and to come across one of these occurrences as I have done from time to time is an unbelievably exciting experience . |
19 | but when they actually get into which country , I mean , this , one of these books as I say it was only published in nineteen eighty eight and statistics in it are as recent |
20 | I was contemplating the truth of these words as I drove up Pukea Road , a turning off the Kam Highway past Pipeline heading towards Waimea on the hill side . |
21 | The diabetes can sometimes disappear if you lose weight and maybe that will happen to me one of these days as I 've lost quite a lot recently . |
22 | We must think Jim of those people as I said that we are responsible for . |
23 | And their of first office as I recall as a little boy , was on the q quay as we used to say in Porthmadog . |
24 | The conduct of pedagogic research as I have defined it here presupposes attitudes and approaches to techniques of teaching which are developed only through an educational perspective and this in turn calls for a continuous programme of in-service support . |
25 | It should be said , however , that Wimsatt 's treatment of the iconic properties of language is as far as the New Critics went in the direction of stylistic analysis as I have defined it ; in general they were much more interested in meaning than in forms of expression , and would have undoubtedly had scarce sympathy for Jakobson 's attempt to define the properties of poetry in purely linguistic terms . |
26 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
27 | ‘ The most satisfying thing about working with dogs is seeing the results of any work as I go . |
28 | And , and a lot of single people as I mentioned , they , they , they do n't come anywhere on , on a housing list to have housing provided for them — what can you do to help them find places ? |
29 | THERE were a few looks of mock horror as I walked through the door . |
30 | I was thinking about black holes as I got into bed one night in 1970 , shortly after the birth of my daughter Lucy . |