Example sentences of "as i [be] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Also , if I get it written ( which I may not , as I am expecting someone to lunch and want to catch this afternoon 's post ) forward Jenny 's letter ?
2 Campese , who hopes to face the Barbarians at Twickenham on Saturday , is more direct , saying : ‘ I play because I enjoy it and as long as I am enjoying my rugby and I am wanted — well , you are a long time retired . ’
3 Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration .
4 ( Ail of which are well represented in the story as I am learning it . )
5 They have since left and had families and now as I am retiring they are all back .
6 The wind drops slightly as I am making myself another cup of tea and I like the idea of going out to watch the sun go down .
7 She went rambling on much as I am doing myself now .
8 And I was , Donald , I was so happy to get it back and read it and learn that you are missing me as much as I am missing you .
9 Kay 's money has come and as I am spending nothing else it will be perfectly alright .
10 Aye it is a good one , yeah , it 's very similar as I was telling my friend the other day to what we had before
11 In the Anglo-Italian Cup , group A , the other game being played in this country tonight as I was telling you a short while ago , Bolton nil , Brescia one , the goal scorer after three .
12 Of course , over the years we 've campaigned , as I was telling someone only yesterday in another club that I go to at the church , that I said you know we , the Co-op Womens ' Guild , were helping to put water into Africa before any of this Band-aid and Live-aid was thought about .
13 About once a week or fortnight I had to attend some quite high-powered meetings in London to which James came too , as I was feeding him at the time .
14 As a matter of fact , as I was larding my toast with the old Maria Schneider this morning , preparatory to sprinkling it with Ecstasy , I worked out a scenario involving eight women , providing one of them was Indian and none were dressed as Carmelites .
15 Once or twice I started swinging very badly , but as I was using my only hand to stop myself bleeding to death , I was unable to do anything about it .
16 As I was leaving I made a big show of asking to see the guitar one more time .
17 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 .
18 Indeed , as I was making my way back to this guest house this evening , I glanced back over my shoulder on a number of occasions and was met each time by a view of the sun setting behind that great spire .
19 No harm in picking up the extra dough , so long as I was doing my client 's work at the same time . ’
20 Then yesterday as I was doing my prison-exercise in the outer cellar I saw a nail .
21 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 .
22 Even as I was recording my triumphs over a hostile and alien world , I was also expressing such sentiments as , ‘ Oh , it 's not even worth writing down — the same , usual , dismal , tedious , boring story . ’
23 But er , in my later as I was rearing my two children erm I , I think I used to spend mine .
24 I soon forgot about the heavy object as I was finding it very difficult to keep awake .
25 The police pointed out that I did n't have a tail light working as I was parking it .
26 As I was putting them down I saw a piece of paper leaning against the spice-rack .
27 Then even as I was grinding its neck into the gravel it was trying to peck my heel .
28 Yes and when I came to , as I was saying we were clearing all half of .
29 As I was saying we did n't get we were buying in October ready for Christmas , buying them in .
30 Yes , Sally says we 'll do it , we 'll change it in the car alright , just as I was saying we had erm , we had roast dinner , Charlotte do n't aggravate him , we had roast lamb , erm and I 'd washed up by two o'clock
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