Example sentences of "as i [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did put the landing light on , though , as I 'd been ambushed in the dark on those stairs before , barely escaping with my life . |
| 2 | I was tempted to stop struggling against him , as I had been tempted before , in a different way , by Mr Rochester . |
| 3 | I explained that I had come to visit Blefuscu , as I had been invited . |
| 4 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |
| 5 | But , as I had been warned , there were no cars . |
| 6 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 7 | I could see my sister being nourished as I had been nourished , and I was demanding some sort of parity . |
| 8 | When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars . |
| 9 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 10 | It was one thing for the pale brown islanders to swim in their Mother Hubbards , or often , as I had been told , bare-breasted . |
| 11 | I was not very worried as I had been told that the school was very good . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , I had not read Mary Shelley 's novel since I was a lad ; such recollection of it as I had was obscured by the travesties of it I had watched in 4-D on film , TV , and CirC . |