Example sentences of "[pers pn] as i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have stayed in London of course , eating my heart out for you as I have done ever since you put your head down on to your bread and butter here in this room and burst into tears ; but the combination of Christmas , and not having seen you in months drove me to a railway station and this morgue of a house . |
| 2 | ‘ I think I have been very wrong in treating you as I have done , Daughter , in the way I brought you up . |
| 3 | When your story has been proved , I will set you free , and I will pay you as I have undertaken — but not until then . ’ |
| 4 | I 've had as much pleasure raising you as I did screwing your clapped-out tart of a mother . |
| 5 | I asked her as I began opening drawers to see how much had to be packed . |
| 6 | I knew that she did n't believe in him as I did because in that case I would have recognised her as I had recognised Mother Joseph , who inhabited a territory which I had visited . |
| 7 | I kept leaving her as I had mixed feelings about being married to someone older than myself . |
| 8 | With a sigh I went on a few steps further to George 's office and found him as I 'd expected , fully dressed , lightly napping , with worked-on forms pushed to one side beside an empty coffee cup . |
| 9 | I might go and see him all the same , just to tell him as I 've told you . ’ |
| 10 | Both sides of the House could and should support most of its provisions , but where improvements are necessary we shall be pressing them on the Minister , and I hope that we shall receive as fair a hearing from him as I have tried to give his Bill this afternoon . |
| 11 | I really like this poem , I became more and more moved with it as I grew to understand it more and I think the poem definitely works and Owen conquers it subtly , approaching a big issue , but he wins in telling us his message . |
| 12 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
| 13 | However , I nearly did n't make it as I neglected to register my willingness to take part with the organiser of the hospital team until all 32 places had been filled . |
| 14 | Can you tell me how to reduce it as I have lost fish for no apparent reason and I suspect it may be connected to the high nitrate level ? |
| 15 | Now I see , he wrote , that I must abandon it as I have abandoned everything else . |
| 16 | They began with Haydn 's Cello Concerto , which was a pleasant surprise for me as I had heard the piece only a week or two before at a concert of Mozart and Haydn 's music featuring Camerata and had liked the piece very much . |
| 17 | This was a joy for me as I had puzzled often on the jumble of tops visible from the A82 and in the mass of high peaks this area contains . |
| 18 | Nobody was as excited to see me as I 'd expected . |
| 19 | I must explain a bit more , for other things occur to me as I try to recall the text which is now in the wrong hands . |
| 20 | A manic grin leered down at me as I struggled to bridge the crux . |
| 21 | Looking the picture of misery and helplessness , he snatched a few words with me as I waited to go in . |
| 22 | He said last night : ‘ I was scared for my daughter if they wanted to shoot anyone I wanted them to shoot me as I 've lived my life . |
| 23 | TAM DALYELL 's article ‘ When giants roamed ’ ( New Scientist , 3 February , p 323 ) was strangely evocative to me as I happen to have met ( however tangentially ) all the giants he mentions , as possible participants in the white-hot technological revolution that petered-out in 1963–66 , as well as Robert Maxwell and Solly Zuckerman who featured only in an illustration to that article . |
| 24 | Trench came up to me as I turned to walk down the corridor again . |
| 25 | I got a lot of secret amusement telling her to leave me as I wanted to die . |
| 26 | But the painting said nothing at all to me as I stood gazing at it . |
| 27 | Well all sorts , let sleeping dogs lie , the ones that underline them as I 've underlined in biro . |
| 28 | When I went to bed , I had a few ‘ sort of ’ pains , but I did n't think anything of them as I 'd had these kind of niggly pains a lot over the last week or so . |
| 29 | Again Yorkshire and Humberside er Scotland and Wales tending to lead that erm all of them as I said have got strong output trends erm in terms of Yorkshire and Humberside the orders er seem to be very much domestic rather than export but widely spread between sectors which gives |