Example sentences of "[adv] as i [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The temptation must be resisted as firmly and valiantly as I have resisted the other , more obvious , more sensual lures and snares . |
| 2 | ’ She told it to them much as I 'd told her myself . |
| 3 | Much as I had enjoyed ‘ my Soviet adventure ’ it was good to be back in an English-speaking land again . |
| 4 | I shall refer briefly to one of the matters touched on by the hon. Gentleman , although I shall not speak on it for as long as I had intended , because the hon. Gentleman made wide-ranging reference to it himself , I congratulate him on that . |
| 5 | Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed . |
| 6 | So long as I 've got somebody now there 's nobody along here . |
| 7 | ‘ For as long as I 've had memories and before that too . |
| 8 | You 've been plaguing the life out of me and everybody else for as long as I 've worked here . |
| 9 | Knowing him for as long as I have done must have worked in my favour . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Go top of the class , Annie , especially as I 've had a look at your knees , ’ said Joe . |
| 11 | I thought my form had been good enough throughout the year to warrant selection , but there is always that niggling doubt , especially as I had angered Frank Dick by not turning up for a relay practice at Loughborough where he was engaged in running the annual Summer School for athletics . |
| 12 | I was really upset about that — especially as I 'd managed to get some of the best seats in the house . |
| 13 | Erm so as I 've said things go wrong . |
| 14 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 15 | I had accepted the equal reality of Mary Shelley and her creation , Victor Frankenstein , just as I had accepted the equal reality of Victor and his monster . |
| 16 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 17 | Just as I had done before , I stumped around Clonmacnoise , surveying each ruined building or ancient cross as I came to it . |
| 18 | Out of school , of course , I continued my birdwatching just as I had done back in Essex , only now there was much more variety . |
| 19 | It was just as I had arranged , word for word . |
| 20 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |
| 21 | The gilded chair by the dressing-table was strewn with clothing , just as I had seen it when I had sometimes taken in her morning tisane . |
| 22 | A gut-churning premonition had hit me , the horrific conviction that the relics would have moved , just as I had moved . |
| 23 | I caught the sense of victory in seeing the film of Henry V — just as I had supposed that all schools were like that of Goodbye Mr Chips , which I was taken to see in 1939 . |
| 24 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 25 | My father had often urged me to try some of his marijuana , but I had never accepted , just as I had refused even to look at the cocaine that he kept in his dressing room . |
| 26 | I walked silently , testing every step I took on the rough paths , just as I had used to walk with my mother in the woods near Štanjel . |
| 27 | I collected my clothing parcel the next morning and there were the razor blades and the tooth paste just as I had expected . |
| 28 | Com , coming out the back tell me how just as I 'd gone by the door and er |
| 29 | It 's too bad , just as I 'd plucked up … . ’ |
| 30 | Creamstick 's house was just as I 'd pictured : |