Example sentences of "[vb past] as i be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , the first thing I noticed as I was going upstairs was one of Popova 's pictures with a bath-tub hanging over it … |
| 2 | I knew as I was doing it that I should n't be following them , through the snake-laced paths to the river in the moonlight , to the broken house with the pigeon tower : that shame would be the result — my shame , for I cared nothing what their feelings might be . |
| 3 | I did as I was bid and sat down again . |
| 4 | Similarly Fawn Hall , asked by North to alter memoranda to conceal his work for the contras , remembered feeling uneasy : ‘ but I believe in Colonel North , and I know that there must have been a good reason why he was asking me to do this , and I — I did as I was told . ’ |
| 5 | I pulled my skirt up a little but he said he 'd have to see higher than that to make sure my legs were n't bowed at the knees so I did as I was told . |
| 6 | I did as I was told and flopped down on a chair , but it gradually got worse and worse , and I felt as if I was going to be sick . |
| 7 | I did as I was told , although I did go off it once , I confess , to watch a lad from Leeds ferreting for rabbits . |
| 8 | I did as I was told . |
| 9 | I did as I was told . |
| 10 | I did as I was told . |
| 11 | So being just do as your told , did as I was told and up we went , onto this crane overhead and the job was running up and down th er picking the boxes up , whatever the chappies want , the , and lowering them and doing exactly what they wanted . |
| 12 | Frankie appeared as I was filling the kettle and offered to do it for me . |
| 13 | The man standing behind her spoke as I was turning to walk away . |
| 14 | I learnt to sit formally at table and to eat three inedible courses of stodge with an incomprehensible array of surplus cutlery ; to whisper when I spoke as I was considered ‘ too loud ’ ; and to stop gesturing with my hands or to touch in conversation , as people inevitably shrank away from me . |
| 15 | you know just , just thoughts I had as I was reading through it as best I can remember them so er mm |