Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [am/are] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large numbers leave school without being able to read or write properly , as many employers will testify , and as I am regularly reminded when younger people come to my constituency surgery and are unable to write out their names and addresses . |
| 2 | I plead , as I am also pleading to myself . |
| 3 | The problem is mostly on my right side as I am right handed . |
| 4 | As long as I am here to remind you I shall never let you forget . |
| 5 | As I am constantly told by many who get in touch with me , uncertainty and delay would be damaging to the whole of the further and higher education sector . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , as I 'm just beginning to get the hang of this sailing business … ’ |
| 7 | I do n't think I 'm gon na do as much as I 'm just gon na do |
| 8 | So as I 'm still trying to stuff things away , she opened the door and everything fell out . |
| 9 | ‘ Nervous as fuck — I was certain I would n't be able to get it up , I mean just certain , especially as I 'm still feeling the effects from getting pissed yesterday — and then , well … aroused , I suppose , when … when I realised you were . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Be that as it may ’ — Miss Rene 's voice had a touch of admonition in it — ‘ as I 'm always telling you : betters do as betters do ; it 's no concern of me or you . ’ |
| 11 | But I say , the , I 'd heard such a lot of the Guild and the Guild 's influence was in Walsall Wood I think primarily , as I 'm always telling the women today , because they were so interested in the village and you got , they were local councillors , magistrates people you went to for advice . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , as I 'm always sayin' to me old Dutch , what the eyes do n't see the 'eart do n't grieve about , and a bloke 's got to make a livin' some'ow . |
| 13 | I like a new challenge , especially as I 'm really focused , my mind 's clear , my body 's clear . |
| 14 | I shall know as much of the whole story as I 'm ever going to know . |
| 15 | Well not earning but learn as I 'm actually working in photography like . |
| 16 | ‘ Not as 6r as you are evidently supposing , ’ he said . |
| 17 | It 's hard not to get indigestion when eating with them as you are constantly chatting with them . |
| 18 | But they are pastoral at the same time , as you are constantly made aware , and nowhere more so than up here on the lofty Plateau d'Iraty , where several roads meet . |
| 19 | There should be no long pauses — as you are only listening at this stage |
| 20 | Your RR already has a US V8 engine , a Buick As you are only allowed to increase the power by 20% this can easily be achieved by changing the camshaft , carburettors ( for a four barrelled Holley and Offenhouser manifold as fuel costs are not a problem ! ) and fitting tubular extractor manifolds to the exhaust Large power increases are not sensible on a seventeen year old vehicle without major overhaul , steering , suspension etc |
| 21 | But the actually new settlement would have to be located outside the Greater York area , as you are now defining it . |
| 22 | People may say that understanding something , as you are now understanding what I have written , involves interpretation , that is , translating something linguistic , a sentence , into something non-linguistic , a thought ; but they do not say it because they have found they actually have to do any such translating . |
| 23 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 24 | I seem to believe it as long as you 're still ticking over nicely . |
| 25 | No I , no , I mean you really respond very well , that Tchaikovsky was lovely , I understand at the present you ca n't do as much and admirable as you 're still doing . |
| 26 | Well , anyway , as you 're always reminding me , I 've got Hugh . |
| 27 | Well , it 's not a positive action that is noted , as we 're actually saying that we 've we 've read it , basically . |
| 28 | We however consider it the best mode of instruction , as we are perpetually saying , that when ever a horse acts agreeably to the wishes of his rider , it should follow that he receive some indulgence from him . |
| 29 | However , having carelessly left the shed unlocked , our mower and strimmer were stolen and , as we are both getting on a bit , we decided we would take up the lawn and put down gravel instead . |
| 30 | Now the camera begins to move down her body , over her breasts , which are lightly beaded ( and quite widely separated ) although it is hard to tell in the chiaroscuro created , as we are soon to find out , by the shutters of the apartment . |