Example sentences of "as i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No envelopes that I had brought were suitable , so that night I made several of them , as I regularly did , strengthening ordinary ones with sticky tape , and making reusable fasteners out of wire from abandoned tyres . |
| 2 | Lorne was dangling over the bowsprit filming as I firmly held his legs , when he was taken off-guard by a violent lurch and dropped our wide-angle lens cap overboard . |
| 3 | These I was given , but , as I soon discovered , directions which would have taken me there in an almost straight line . |
| 4 | In fact , as I soon discovered , these ruins are inhabited . |
| 5 | He is also quite charming , with an attractive dry sense of humour , as I soon discovered over a beautifully prepared meal at his spacious London home . |
| 6 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 7 | Although , as I soon found out , the Russians themselves were models of inefficiency and poor organization , they nevertheless believed that anything that went wrong was a deliberate act of sabotage rather than the normal sort of mistake which occurs in every large organization . |
| 8 | In 1963 ( I believe ) was appointed Director of the Communication research Centre , and soon after became the first Professor of Linguistics at U.C.L. ( as I soon came to know him ) was a charismatic teacher and delightfully friendly person , and I benefitted greatly from close contact with him in 1963–4 , when he was Director of the Communication Research Centre , and I was Assistant Director . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll be as kind as I please , ’ said Franca , smiling . |
| 10 | As it 's my private place , I should be able to do with it as I please . ’ |
| 11 | Within reason , ’ he explains , ‘ I can sign as I please . |
| 12 | It is not that I have no reason to submit to the moral law and can do as I please ; I am left with no reason even to do as I please . |
| 13 | Screen-writer , you see , demands of studio , absolute solitude essential , come and go as I please , often not there , vagaries of genius and its errant locomotion , several forged references available from heads of Oxbridge colleges , principals of Shakespeare Schools , even one on House of Commons paper . |
| 14 | PLAYER : I can come and go as I please . |
| 15 | And I always make a point of doing as I please . |
| 16 | ‘ When I am Kha-Khan , I will be able to do as I please . ’ |
| 17 | I will live my life as I please . |
| 18 | ‘ I think perhaps you 've forgotten something — This is my land ; I can do with it as I please . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll do as I please . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Since this is my boat , I would remind you I can come and go as I please . ’ |
| 21 | I want the land west of Wedale and the south bank of the river Forth to do with as I please . |
| 22 | ‘ I shall answer as I please , ’ he said , but less boldly . |
| 23 | I hate to burst your royal bubble , Excellency , but I 'm free to come and go as I please . ’ |
| 24 | Please do n't tell me to buy children 's shoes as I already do so when I need a flat pair , but I like high heels and am finding it increasingly difficult to buy them . |
| 25 | Moreover , as I already observed , the social mechanisms which assigned each group different and non-competitive niches , are eroding or are politically unacceptable . |
| 26 | ‘ Then he may join me indoors when he 's had enough , as I already have . ’ |
| 27 | at the Gateshead National Garden Festival from 1989 to 1990 that was alright , then last September 1990 and with the end of the festival in site I had a dread of going back on the dole as I already spent seven years on the dole previously through no-fault of my own . |
| 28 | ‘ As I already said , ’ Rogers told him . |
| 29 | My difficulty is as as you 've already heard I 've got no mandate to speak about particular locations or even sectors within Selby District although clearly I do have a mandate as I already have said to come along and say that we feel Selby District is an appropriate location . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps not , but , as I already told you , I grew up in the business , ’ she returned hotly . |