Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun] as i " in BNC.
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| 1 | The white tube , the cork-effect filter , the solid hot flare of the match and my lips tell me of my lungs as I make my own smoke , with its blue drifting and acrid smell . |
| 2 | I left the stage in the middle of my song as I could n't hear a thing . |
| 3 | I felt the miserable decline of my happiness as I imagined the girl 's innocence and the futility of her mother 's efforts to save her from a cruel death . |
| 4 | I was engrossed in these thoughts and just about to drip it on the top of my head as I had seen Sally do when , from nowhere , a hand knocked me to the floor , spilling the contents of the bottle . |
| 5 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |
| 6 | But I was dreading the French paper to which I had only given the dregs of my time as I had had so much else on my plate . |
| 7 | See how I turn up the corners of my mouth as I tell you again , twenty-five dollars . ’ |
| 8 | I could feel the hairs rise at the back of my neck as I said , ‘ You 've seen her ? ’ |
| 9 | I 'm not ashamed of my body as I used to be . |
| 10 | But part of their argument as I see it is that they are trying to seek to minimize the impact er in terms of unemployment levels by shifting the structure er and trying to well possibly counter the effects of a fallout in the primary sector . |
| 11 | I remember putting my foot down when some of my customers took a piece of their sausage as I was weighing it , and after a discerning chew they casually dropped the remaining small piece of chewed hard skin onto the floor of the shop . |
| 12 | My hair seems to have lost some of its colour as I 've got older . |
| 13 | That persistence must however be seen against the background of the following factors : ( a ) the weakness of her faith as I have found it ; ( b ) the fact that no explanation was ever offered to her by anyone in medical authority as to the risks that a refusal to have a blood transfusion presented to her health indeed to her life . |
| 14 | PAMELA : I wish the lady would be as tender of her reputation as I would be . |
| 15 | He finds himself ‘ considering the idea of flight ’ , and the idea of defeat : ‘ 1 suppose that , thinking of my own harassment and Raymond 's defeat , I had begun to consider Yvette a defeated person as well , trapped in the town , as sick of herself and the wasting asset of her body as I was sick of myself and my anxieties . ’ |
| 16 | Since I did n't know Jackie in his racing years , I can only speak of his character as I 've known it since I975 , a period by which he had already become obsessed with driver safety and a real force in improving conditions for drivers . |
| 17 | Or is it the merest coincidence that Kyle is sitting back in his chair , with the receiver to his ear , stroking the bald patch on the back of his head as I explain my business ? |
| 18 | As a matter of interest , I 'm totting up the sum of his holdings as I go along . |
| 19 | He is the wise man of his people as I , in Europe , am of mine . |
| 20 | I ran downstairs to the phone , hearing my father coming to the door of his room as I passed it . |
| 21 | I keep as many of your letters as I can store to look back on at the turn of the century , which we 're both going to see ! |