Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] i as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But try to implicate me in any way — or use me as a trade-off- and it 'll be added to the police clear-up rate faster than the eye can follow . |
| 2 | I had never really noticed before this common use of the label that identified me as a means to imply wilful ignorance . |
| 3 | One thing that puzzled me as a boy was Mrs. Farrer 's hair — it used to change overnight from snow white to jet black and a few days later it was white again . |
| 4 | A shop that fascinated me as a youngster was Wrides , towards the Ivy Street end of Catherine Street . |
| 5 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 6 | I had n't asked to do it , but in fact found it very interesting and that took me as a result into trade union negotiations and finally into becoming personnel director . |
| 7 | It was then that I began to discover the fate that awaited me as a female . |
| 8 | I noticed his saying in a magazine interview that he could never have survived these past few years without the help of Fleet Street — and that struck me as an unusually candid confession for a politician . |
| 9 | ‘ One of the things that struck me as an outsider , coming into the firm two and a half years ago , was that there was no accountability , ’ recalls Mel Smaje . |
| 10 | ‘ There was one thing that struck me as a bit odd when I had a chance to look back on it . |
| 11 | The evening of talented entertainment was hilarious and also included shafts of criticism expressed in humour that struck me as evidence of CA 's basic good health . |
| 12 | ‘ But Miss Everdene can do as she likes , and she 's chosen to manage her own farm — and keep me as an ordinary shepherd only . ’ |
| 13 | She urged me to go with her to concerts and the theatre , and took me as her guest to the Edinburgh International Club which , owing to the presence of so many servicemen from overseas , was then an active and flourishing society . |
| 14 | He pulled me to my feet , and flung his arms around me and squeezed me as if he wanted to gather me right into himself , never let me go , and we stayed like that for a long time , not speaking , rocking to and fro . |
| 15 | Please accept my application and enrol me as a member of The Literary Guild and send me the introductory books whose numbers I have printed in the boxes provided . |
| 16 | Several informants in my study articulated the view that their parents preferred them to speak British English : Mom — mom likes me to speak mostly English , she said when I go out into , you know , upper class society , and I start speakin " Patois dey might not understand , and take me as an idiot . |