Example sentences of "as [pron] [be] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Ail of which are well represented in the story as I am learning it . ) |
| 2 | And as for my technique — well , my friend , loath as I am to admit it , I do n't think I have one . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I soon forgot about the heavy object as I was finding it very difficult to keep awake . |
| 6 | The police pointed out that I did n't have a tail light working as I was parking it . |
| 7 | I knew it was silly as I was saying it . |
| 8 | Now , the these two views of human nature , the pessimistic , as I 'm calling it , and the optimistic lead to two different views of the child , as I 've already implied . |
| 9 | I tell them all about the bar-tailed lark and the Berbers but they 're looking at me in a very strange way and I mean now the whole story sounds pretty crazy to me as I 'm telling it . |
| 10 | All we can say with certainty is that it would be the biggest man-made explosion in history , which does n't sound so bad when you say it quickly as I 'm saying it now . |
| 11 | I crushed some of the flowers and rubbed them on my forehead as I 'm told it has an invigorating effect on cabbages and thought it might do the same for me . |
| 12 | The frosting will harden as it cools and , as you are spreading it , it will cool more rapidly . |
| 13 | In the final analysis you are getting nervous and undermining your chances for success because you are frightened of something which really does not matter as much as you are allowing it to . |
| 14 | That just as you are making it possible to select conceptions that will result in the right sort of people , as you define them , and reject the potentially bad ones , so it would be possible to reject the good and retain the bad . |
| 15 | So as you 're labelling it , what do you think of the problem ? |
| 16 | Well as you 're facing it 's sign and print shop or print shop |
| 17 | Yes , but it 's not so male orien orientated now as you 're making it out to be . |
| 18 | Okay , have a go at it and we 'll come round and correct what you 're doing as you 're doing it , alright , so you want to pad over the wound to keep infection out and then try to get your bandage on top of that to keep the dressing in place . |
| 19 | you know so there 's , there 's a lot of things that you bear in mind and you take notes on them as you 're doing it |
| 20 | how each of the prices of each one , and you work out which which way round you 're going to do it , and then talk to me about it as you 're doing it . |
| 21 | Not as you were using it . |
| 22 | Could I take er , a minute and , and just try and look at the steps that you 've gone through and I , I tried to write down as you were doing it , giving your presentation , the steps which I think everybody eventually went through either formally or informally and I think if we look at these steps you 'll agree yes , I needed that and I did that or , we did n't do it formally . |
| 23 | The application which was submitted by the Society last November was discussed with the panel on February 18th and as you were told it was well received . |
| 24 | that 's what I mean , as you were putting it in it , it shot out did n't it ? |
| 25 | As she was replacing it with its fellows , a thought occurred to her , and she wondered why it had taken her so long to arrive at such an obvious conclusion . |
| 26 | As she was drinking it , she decided that she would go into the hospital , on her way to the office . |
| 27 | As she was undressing it began to rain again , and soon it was bucketing down . |
| 28 | Marc came in as she was towelling it dry . |
| 29 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 30 | But as we 're seeing it 's happening to all sorts of people . |