Example sentences of "as i " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ If you found someone such as I have just described it would let you off the hook . ’ |
| 32 | It was an otter such as I had never seen before , with this all-over fawn coat . |
| 33 | To achieve anything in an organization such as I have described requires an endless study and understanding of the politics of what is going on , even if you yourself are not politically inclined . |
| 34 | I just know that I will play the piano as best as I can . ’ |
| 35 | After the reception , we all went in to the ballroom for a five-course Scottish dinner such as I have not seen for years ! |
| 36 | We have few secondary schools such as I used to teach in nowadays . |
| 37 | The contrary relation will therefore show up in a sentential context that specifies , or at least implies , that a single event is being referred to , such as I only met Mary once , and that was today/yesterday or ( somewhat less convincingly ) It was today/yesterday that I met Mary . |
| 38 | To a pragmatist , such as I proudly claim to be , It was difficult to see why this issue should become a hanging matter . |
| 39 | This means that any combination of pronoun plus verb , such as I took or I saw , is rendered by an inflected verb as theme in Arabic . |
| 40 | Second , Arabic negative particles come in front of the verb , so that an expression such as I had nothing against becomes literally ‘ not was for me any objection ’ , thus pushing the ‘ me ’ further away from thematic position . |
| 41 | ROS : The position as I see it , then . |
| 42 | The position as I see it , then . |
| 43 | ‘ Engines driven by steam will propel a ship such as I have described , and they are within the ability of the men of this world to build . ’ |
| 44 | An analogy such as I have just drawn in this three act drama of salvation can be dangerously misleading . |
| 45 | If you want a growth-type investment , such as I do n't know , Far Eastern fund , or something like that , or a , or even a European Special Situations , you n you , you might as well not use the P E P because they wh you get about one percent on er a growth P E P . |
| 46 | Er the things that she said were that women used more hedges , such as I think er hedges are sort of things that get put into the conversation if al allegedly if somebody wants to give the impression that they 're not quite sure , and they would n't w You know like I would n't want to say it for sure but I think that . |
| 47 | In my mind 's beady eye it was white with just a soupçon ( had I known the word soupçon ) of scarlet such as I 'd once seen June Allyson sport in a skating sequence in some Saturday morning picture . |
| 48 | In some elusive way , here before me was the representative of something , some enormous sphere of sensations and transcendent values such as I had only read about , something my Maker had withheld from me which I desperately needed . |
| 49 | I know many children and I enjoy looking after them I plan to do this for my career as I have applied to Suffolk College for a place in the Nursery Nursing course so that I can go on to be a Nanny . |
| 50 | But if you 're in a general branch such as I am , which is made up from people of all sorts of industries that have come together because none of us are large enough to have a branch within our own industry on our own , then which section do we go to ? |
| 51 | A common example was an auxiliary verb sequence , such as I would n't have been able to go , which was heard as a single syllabic beat , approximately shown here as I wudnbinabluh go . |
| 52 | My business statement every week is based on the position as I see it at the time and we have organised matters at the time . |
| 53 | Any course of action such as I have suggested is fraught with difficulty , and everyone must recognise that . |
| 54 | And since I have that type of handicap , I try to interpret it as best as I can . |
| 55 | He produced a notebook and took down the address of the party in Fulham ( as best as I could remember it ) and the time , which I guessed at around 11.15 p.m . |
| 56 | Indeed in all the contexts examined to date have suggests that the disposition of the " subordinate " ( denoted by its direct object ) to comply can be assumed or taken for granted : a sentence such as I had him cry , for example , would sound rather strange , unless imagined in a situation where someone is disposed to cry on request ( as in the context of a film director who is referring to an actor working under his orders ) . |
| 57 | Similar impressions seem to arise from sentences such as I may leave tomorrow and I can finish it next week . |
| 58 | What distinguishes the infinitive of reaction from uses such as I am ready to leave , where ready also attributes a prior disposition to the support , is simply that the characteristic denoted by the adjective of reaction evokes both a prior and a contemporaneous disposition towards the occurrence of an event . |
| 59 | Bolinger distinguishes these uses from those such as I was glad to see her there , where there is no comma pause , by calling the latter " projective " and the former " reactive " — ( 28 ) , for example , is paraphrased by " I was stunned by his losing " . |
| 60 | This produces the effect of a " coincident actualization " observed in sentences such as I saw him swim across the river , which can be depicted as : With auxiliaries , the connection between the infinitive and the verb with which it is in syntactic relation is much more intimate : the auxiliaries used with the infinitive do not merely evoke some other event whose support coincides in time with that of the infinitive — they qualify the very incidence of the infinitive 's event to its extra-verbal support , as actual ( do auxiliary ) or potential ( the modals ) . |