Example sentences of "as i [verb] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was obvious from the moment she came into the house that Dawn , as I 'd immediately christened her ( after all , I 'd had three weeks to dream up the name ) , was a real character . |
| 2 | ‘ He flew away just as I 'd nearly got him . ’ |
| 3 | The living room was as pristine as I 'd ever seen it . |
| 4 | I had almost forgotten about him and immediately felt depressed as I trudged off to find my car . |
| 5 | I might want to poke my tongue out at those new cameras as I slow down to pass them , but deep down even I know that they 're there for my protection . |
| 6 | He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her , then held both her hands and smiled down at her as I had not seen him smile since I mentioned her name that night in the subway . |
| 7 | It seemed a rather difficult thing to do , somehow , which surprised me , as I had n't realized I still had some atavistic buried fear of him because he was black . |
| 8 | I remembered this recently with all these people falling from express trains but did n't think it could be the same on local lines as I had never heard anyone complain before . |
| 9 | The press were trying to build up a great rivalry between Ben and me , especially as I had never raced him . |
| 10 | If he 'd gone to the crematorium mortuary with Alan , there would have been a blank in my mind , as I had never seen it , and anyway it was thirty miles away . |
| 11 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that last Friday , on a delegation to Kiev , I took the opportunity — as I had always promised myself that I would if ever I were in Kiev — to visit Babi Yar , just outside the city limits , where in two years of Nazi terror and occupation tens of thousands of people were murdered ? |
| 12 | That had taken me a little time , partly as I was still sleepy , partly as I had so convinced myself Old Red had reported me . |
| 13 | As I had mistakenly left my only pair of worn-in boots in Salford — I had been wearing them when I packed the kit , and changed into shoes to travel to North Africa — I now had blisters under the balls of both feet and another running from the top of my left heel right under the foot . |
| 14 | But as I went on reading I found that was n't what Clem was telling me at all . ’ |
| 15 | Maybe it had some bearing on Uncle Fred 's last words to me as I went off to do my National Service in the army . |
| 16 | No , My Lords , I entirely disagree with the Noble Lord er furthermore as I 've already said we 're talking the builders site not the library in today 's question . |
| 17 | But as I 've already told you just , it was very ironical that I should l go back down the hole in er Germany again . |
| 18 | ‘ And , by the way , as I 've already told you once before , I 'd prefer you to call me Alexander . |
| 19 | ‘ As I 've already told you , we 're very alike , except that Suzie 's hair is very short and curly and , of course , she 's much younger , ’ she retorted with some spirit . |
| 20 | As I 've already told you , there is nothing between us except a mutual disenchantment . |
| 21 | ‘ Besides , as I 've already told you , it — you and I together — it does n't work . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm standing in for Stella — as I 've already told you . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I find this all rather insulting , as I 've already told you . ’ |
| 24 | As I 've already told you , I do n't know anything . ’ |
| 25 | And you 'll need that machine there back a bit from the television as I 've already told you . |
| 26 | and er we moved over there because erm the Department was splitting at the seams really , because immediately there was erm , the war was over and there were all sorts of plans for erm for development and that sort of thing and erm as I 've already mentioned there were two , only two graduates in the whole of the Education Department who was Mr and er his Personal Assistant and erm then after the war there were three graduates appointed , all of them from erm , ex service men , there was Arthur who was erm Lieutenant Commander in the Navy , there was erm Bud , I ca n't remember his Christ proper christian name . |
| 27 | Not as far as I 've just left them . |
| 28 | As I 've probably told you before the they used they used to meet and meet daily , trades council . |
| 29 | Yes , , I 've never heard the er the full title before , it 's always just been er so I was so as far as I 've always heard it . |
| 30 | ‘ Just as I 've always visualised it . |