Example sentences of "[adj] as i be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless someone has a better solution , can I ask the many thousands of WCM readers who are as infuriated as I am to write and complain to the BBC 's Head Programme Scheduler . |
| 2 | Unlike Michelle in Eastenders , my situation was quite different as I was going out with the father of my son . |
| 3 | Naturally I was disappointed that the most notable name of which we could boast had to be excluded : and although I knew that he disliked re-reading his prose works , I was as sorry that he felt the essay to be below standard as I was to regret his later repudiation of After Strange Gods . |
| 4 | Aye it is a good one , yeah , it 's very similar as I was telling my friend the other day to what we had before |
| 5 | Vast as I 'm feeling : like in a dream when you 're walking naked down the High Street . |
| 6 | I am sure that all my colleagues are as delighted as I am to support this excellent Bill , not least because it builds on the firm foundation organised during the passage of our privatisation measures . |
| 7 | I do n't know if Andre reads Tennis World , but if he does , I 'm sure he will be as delighted as I am to hear your continuing support . |
| 8 | But , sad as I was to leave the arena of Ultra , for me there was no choice . |
| 9 | Campese , who hopes to face the Barbarians at Twickenham on Saturday , is more direct , saying : ‘ I play because I enjoy it and as long as I am enjoying my rugby and I am wanted — well , you are a long time retired . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But I will stick around only as long as I am doing justice to myself and the team . |
| 11 | ‘ As long as I am allowed to , I will follow this , Elsa . |
| 12 | It will be so long as I am sitting in this office . ’ |
| 13 | As long as I was forced to stay awake I shrank from any stimulus to sensation ; now I relax and welcome the fading sensations until they are extinct , and for a few minutes will notice impressions of which I am normally unaware , such as the twilight images on the edge of consciousness . |
| 14 | Basically , I 'll stay happy as long as I 'm taking pictures . ’ |
| 15 | But I 've decided that I 'll only be in the band as long as I 'm doing other things as well as . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been told to stay here as long as I 'm needed . ’ |
| 17 | I 'll bring it over after , as long as I 'm coming round . |
| 18 | Well yes er she really confirmed er she seemed as concerned as I was did n't she ? |
| 19 | ‘ But I am very disappointed as I was looking forward to going to the West Indies and seeing what promised to be a great series . ’ |
| 20 | Does the hon. Gentleman accept that , if he is as keen as I am to provide a level playing field for road and rail , he should recognise that , when motorways were built around Greater Manchester , of three footpaths that crossed the motorway , one was closed or diverted and bridges or underpasses were put in for the other two . |
| 21 | Yeah as right as I 'm gon na be I suppose . |
| 22 | And as for my technique — well , my friend , loath as I am to admit it , I do n't think I have one . ’ |
| 23 | Let those who do not care for mine use their rejections of them to make their own as explicit and as acknowledged as I am going to try to make mine . |
| 24 | I knew it was silly as I was saying it . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's as true as I 'm standing here , as God 's my witness , there were two dead rats in the babby 's cradle , one on either side of her . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's as true as I 'm sitting here telling you , ’ insisted Dodger Gillespie , never one to be subject to fancies or unsought hallucinations . |
| 27 | True as I 'm sitting here , ’ she said , draining her pint . |