Example sentences of "as i [verb] go [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking the picture of misery and helplessness , he snatched a few words with me as I waited to go in . |
| 2 | As I had to go back to my office after a big luncheon party , I arrived half way through the collection . |
| 3 | ‘ I may as well begin as I mean to go on , ma'am . |
| 4 | It sounded good Mick , I mean it 's your first year and I was n't gon na come up here , but I thought I might as well start as I mean to go on . |
| 5 | It did n't bear thinking of , but I thought of nothing else as I prepared to go down to breakfast . |
| 6 | As I hastened to go upstairs , I happened to encounter Miss Kenton in the back corridor — the scene , of course , of our last disagreement — and it was perhaps this unhappy coincidence that encouraged her to maintain the childish behaviour she had adopted on that previous occasion . |
| 7 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 8 | But as I turned to go downstairs , my landlord , thinking he was alone , threw himself on the bed , pushed open the window and called into the darkness . |
| 9 | As I turned to go back , the wheelbarrow was far away , perhaps half a mile , the black and yellow stripes just discernible . |
| 10 | But she put it up here , I think probably to make it easier , I mean if anyone 's had , I do n't know if anyone had children in the seventies when it was the fashion to wear very long skirts , or even as I find going up and down stairs in my nightie , you 're more than likely to fall and break a leg and the baby 's neck at the same time , if you wear a long skirt . |