Example sentences of "[adv] as i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What happens there is that a ‘ really gay ’ reading of Coward is put into play , much as I have already done with Brief Encounter , but on the grounds that a homosexual writer can only write about homosexuality ( analogous cases would be the insistence that Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is ‘ really ’ about a gay couple , or that Tennessee Williams 's Blanche Dubois is nothing but a transposed drag queen ) . |
| 3 | Much as I feel now at your damned silly question ! |
| 4 | ‘ I was personally told he was not concerned about my past so long as I kept up a volume of business , ’ he said . |
| 5 | The calculations I must have performed to decide where the ball was going to be , and to hit it , are staggering , but I managed ( so long as I did not stop to ask how I was doing it ) . |
| 6 | I know that so long as I do n't manage to count up to one hundred before the spasm ceases , I shall live . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't mind what I do so long as I do n't have too many lines to learn . ’ |
| 8 | That 's none of my business so long as I do n't have to break any laws . |
| 9 | I 'm thinking there might be something wrong with my plan to wait as I close my eyes ( only to rest them ) , but even as I yawn and put my hands into my armpits I think a spot of rest is n't such a bad idea so long as I do n't fall asleep . |
| 10 | ‘ He has enough sauce for a king 's fool , but impudence I can stomach so long as I do n't have to ride something that big on my own . ’ |
| 11 | The press were trying to build up a great rivalry between Ben and me , especially as I had never raced him . |
| 12 | Especially as I went in and he gave me those brochures . |
| 13 | Especially as I do n't like colour and I only like black and white . |
| 14 | The first month was absolute hell , especially as I did n't have a watch . |
| 15 | I 'd stamp up and down as I walked along , and up would pop the balls that had been buried in the sand . |
| 16 | The lorry-driver jumped down as I leapt out of the mini and ran to the black car . |
| 17 | Greatly as I admire both the man and his work , I consider Max Beerbohm a dangerous influence — just how dangerous one must perhaps have been brought up in England to know . |
| 18 | The main reason is obviously as I said earlier in my in my erm summary of my statement , to reduce congestion , reduce delays , to reduce accidents and to give scope for environmental improvements within the urban area . |
| 19 | I could walk as fast as I ever did but I tended to roll my shoulders and turn my three-toed foot in as I did so . |
| 20 | And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time . |
| 21 | and rung the A A , so as I got through to the A A man I says erm , you know , I says I , where I was parked and all like that and where I was stood and the chap says oh I 'll get a , a van up to ya as soon as I can , but I says wait a minute , I says my car 's just arrived and Joan was the mechanic , he lifted bonnet up and touched something and you brought it down did n't you ? |
| 22 | When you were here before I was only a schoolboy and er just er old enough to know everything that was going on , as you might say , but young enough so as I did n't get too involved . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , such a day , and to stroll along as I did so many times in the old days . |
| 24 | As I unravelled the yarn , I wound it loosely around a single bed headboard , knitting the ends together as I went along . |
| 25 | I spent as much time wondering how the dome was held together as I did actually climbing . |
| 26 | But the thrill I felt at the strange beauty was swept away as I got out and the wind struck me . |
| 27 | I approached her carefully but she leaned away as I stretched out my hand . |
| 28 | Who can dispute the fact that , if the figures were not as I have just announced and if industrial relations had not improved , we could not have attracted our record level of inward investment from across the world ? |
| 29 | Much as I would like to assist the hon. Gentleman , I can not as I do not accept that transport for students at boards of management colleges should remain with education authorities . |
| 30 | Sometimes , just as I drifting off to sleep , I can see Dan Rogers running the length of the pitch to slip the ball past Bob Wilson , or Allan Clarke 's diving header past Geoff Barnett in 1972 , or Willie Young presenting Ipswich Town 's Roger Osborne with an unmissable chance in 1978 , or Nigel Winterburn 's penalty miss ten years later , or Seaman palming Lineker 's cross-shot into the corner of the net in last year 's semi-final . |