Example sentences of "[pron] as i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've clearly feel that you probably responded by saying that the old one which is led to under registration was perfectly adequate for your needs , which as I said says something about your view of the electoral process . |
| 2 | It must be emphasized , however , that this particular elaboration of the nature-culture split is , of course , also itself a complex social construct and one which as I said serves patriarchal needs in various ways . |
| 3 | environmental constraints if the organization is big enough to qualify as strategic , and I am really concerned about the planning er application in which I know that Da Professor Lock is interested that I think developments of that scale have nothing to do with the employment needs of the district , that they would in fact involve bringing in large numbers of people from other areas who as I have said before , might appreciate jobs nearer their present places of employment , and it would also unbalance the Harrogate housing market and put on pressure for more land to be taken in and around Harrogate for housing for the people who 'd come to that development . |
| 4 | Igor Alexander who who as I say recognizes started to build these these little cells these things before random access memories came along . |
| 5 | I could have stayed in London of course , eating my heart out for you as I have done ever since you put your head down on to your bread and butter here in this room and burst into tears ; but the combination of Christmas , and not having seen you in months drove me to a railway station and this morgue of a house . |
| 6 | ‘ I think I have been very wrong in treating you as I have done , Daughter , in the way I brought you up . |
| 7 | When your story has been proved , I will set you free , and I will pay you as I have undertaken — but not until then . ’ |
| 8 | I 've had as much pleasure raising you as I did screwing your clapped-out tart of a mother . |
| 9 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 10 | I asked her as I began opening drawers to see how much had to be packed . |
| 11 | I knew that she did n't believe in him as I did because in that case I would have recognised her as I had recognised Mother Joseph , who inhabited a territory which I had visited . |
| 12 | I kept leaving her as I had mixed feelings about being married to someone older than myself . |
| 13 | With a sigh I went on a few steps further to George 's office and found him as I 'd expected , fully dressed , lightly napping , with worked-on forms pushed to one side beside an empty coffee cup . |
| 14 | I might go and see him all the same , just to tell him as I 've told you . ’ |
| 15 | Both sides of the House could and should support most of its provisions , but where improvements are necessary we shall be pressing them on the Minister , and I hope that we shall receive as fair a hearing from him as I have tried to give his Bill this afternoon . |
| 16 | I really like this poem , I became more and more moved with it as I grew to understand it more and I think the poem definitely works and Owen conquers it subtly , approaching a big issue , but he wins in telling us his message . |
| 17 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
| 18 | However , I nearly did n't make it as I neglected to register my willingness to take part with the organiser of the hospital team until all 32 places had been filled . |
| 19 | Can you tell me how to reduce it as I have lost fish for no apparent reason and I suspect it may be connected to the high nitrate level ? |
| 20 | Now I see , he wrote , that I must abandon it as I have abandoned everything else . |
| 21 | I 've never loved anyone as I 've loved Jack . |
| 22 | I seemed to be detached from myself , watching myself as I sat spooning sugar into my cup , seeing the brown liquid absorb the solid grains , thinking about the incidents of my life that clogged the flow of time . |
| 23 | They began with Haydn 's Cello Concerto , which was a pleasant surprise for me as I had heard the piece only a week or two before at a concert of Mozart and Haydn 's music featuring Camerata and had liked the piece very much . |
| 24 | This was a joy for me as I had puzzled often on the jumble of tops visible from the A82 and in the mass of high peaks this area contains . |
| 25 | Nobody was as excited to see me as I 'd expected . |
| 26 | I must explain a bit more , for other things occur to me as I try to recall the text which is now in the wrong hands . |
| 27 | A manic grin leered down at me as I struggled to bridge the crux . |
| 28 | Looking the picture of misery and helplessness , he snatched a few words with me as I waited to go in . |
| 29 | He said last night : ‘ I was scared for my daughter if they wanted to shoot anyone I wanted them to shoot me as I 've lived my life . |
| 30 | TAM DALYELL 's article ‘ When giants roamed ’ ( New Scientist , 3 February , p 323 ) was strangely evocative to me as I happen to have met ( however tangentially ) all the giants he mentions , as possible participants in the white-hot technological revolution that petered-out in 1963–66 , as well as Robert Maxwell and Solly Zuckerman who featured only in an illustration to that article . |