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 .
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