Example sentences of "i [verb] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked as we stood outside the front door of Green 's Hotel . |
| 2 | I asked as we were driving away . |
| 3 | I asked as we picked up our overnight bags and moved towards the exit . |
| 4 | I asked as we turned our backs on the Pacific and began working our way back through the maze of walls and rubble . |
| 5 | I asked as he began fixing the rear safety straps so that she would n't roll off the seat if he had to brake suddenly . |
| 6 | I asked as I spooned a gob of whipped cream over my gooseberry pie . |
| 7 | I asked as I stirred up the tea-bags . |
| 8 | I asked as I stroked the baby 's fuzzy head . |
| 9 | I asked as I started the engine . |
| 10 | I asked as I held the deli door open for him . |
| 11 | I asked as I fumbled my keys out . |
| 12 | I asked as I stood up to go to the bar . |
| 13 | And I mean as they went down we got the the diver , so there was a few of them there . |
| 14 | If her hip and knee and ankle are as badly damaged as I hope — I mean as they could be — she 'll be unable to take herself up or down the stairs . |
| 15 | Yes , that 's right , I mean as we get wealthier , we want to consume er , more manufactured goods basically . |
| 16 | I mean as we 're not looking to win anyway , I do n't know what the hell they 're bothered about . |
| 17 | want that , I mean as my mum said , I 'm looking for a |
| 18 | Erm I mean as it is I I can get photocopying for four P a sheet getting fifty at a time , and that give I get a receipt for that which is better than three P a sheet without a receipt . |
| 19 | Which actually is something I was thinking about doing with year seven but I mean as it 's it 's it 's |
| 20 | So you 'd just write it as , I mean as it 's minus one , you can take it off as you go along , but it 's , sometimes it 'll be a minus six or something , so write it as two point nine nine squared minus one . |
| 21 | Well I think oh well it 's so beautiful I mean as it is in there , they do n't need anything doing to , I mean |
| 22 | Yes , I think that the crucial thing that 's emerging , especially from the area of artificial intelligence , is that we 're beginning to understand that what the name of the game is getting people to express their intentions , and for a long time we 've been , as it were , stuck in languages that do n't really help you to do that and we 're really beginning to understand now that erm what people are doing when they program indeed , I mean as it were the ace programmers , are expressing their intention for whatever 's to be done in the task the computer 's to perform clearly . |
| 23 | I mean as I say very very good . |
| 24 | I mean as I said when I was filling in the questionnaire I was thinking well this , really this is my preference and you know I 'd much rather be in a job that allowed me some flexibility . |
| 25 | I , I mean it may not be right , but it , I mean as I think you can see it has a kind of logic about it , erm and , and i it may be that it , it 's not the right explanation , but the very fact that erm we 're suggesting it , I think shows that erm again it 's naive to think that motherhood is a kind of er is a one-sided affair where you know mothers sacrifice themselves er for their offspring , because nature demands it . |
| 26 | But no I mean as I say some of the content was was was very interesting and er the concept is er well it 's something that excites me . |
| 27 | Oh right erm but er well you can , you can get away without , without buying stuff erm I mean as I , as I say some people do end up sharing erm some people do end up , not that there 's very much library stock very often but , you know , some people do |
| 28 | Erm e e they 're all individual and mine I think , looking back , was erm erm er a light er experience and I mean as I 've said , the the erm er w this telescope they shove up you , er I mean , Chris Patton had the same thing . |
| 29 | I mean as I say now , how can you turn round to a to a bloke who 's , well does n't matter what his on , eh , what , what ever his , his rate of pay is , how can you turn round to him and say you ca n't have more than seven per cent , and his got , his got something like a about twenty five , thirty per cent . |
| 30 | I mean as I as I get a |