Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] i as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had never really noticed before this common use of the label that identified me as a means to imply wilful ignorance . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A shop that fascinated me as a youngster was Wrides , towards the Ivy Street end of Catherine Street . |
| 4 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was then that I began to discover the fate that awaited me as a female . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ There was one thing that struck me as a bit odd when I had a chance to look back on it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |