Example sentences of "[adv] as i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much as I sympathise with the plaintiffs , it would , in my opinion , be extending the implications based on the maxim … to an unreasonable extent if it were held that what has been done in this case was a breach of an implied obligation . |
| 2 | But David had always worked by himself , so I had got used to the idea that I would never play with him , much as I wanted to . |
| 3 | Lili watched me thoughtfully as I put on my skirt and blouse . |
| 4 | Everything went smoothly so long as I lay on my tummy , but when they turned me on to my back I was assailed with a searing pain there . |
| 5 | So long as I stuck to squawks and Pretty fucking Polly , I was fine ? |
| 6 | She left this house to us , and an allowance to Emily so long as she did n't marry , and one to me so long as I stayed with her . |
| 7 | I had sought to interest some of the more enterprising newspapers , especially as I hoped to be able , if possible , to push on to Abyssinia ; but , in the end , I went in independence , as I have undertaken most excursions , both terrestrial and mental . |
| 8 | The machine turned upside down as I slid into the water . |
| 9 | Granpa clapped so loud as I returned to my place that some of the mums looked round and smiled , which made the old fellow even more determined to see that I stayed on at school until I was fourteen . |
| 10 | I 'll drop the key in as I go past the lodge . ’ |
| 11 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 12 | The only alleviating point in the walk was the number of pretty women and girls ; so as I delight in looking at such , I very rudely looked into the eyes of those that passed . |
| 13 | It was only as I rapped on the open door of his office that I realized the plan was upside down . |
| 14 | Thus as I look at the figures I see the question in a broader context . |
| 15 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 16 | I wonder if I will get away with things as easily as I have on other serious falls and I wonder what it will feel like at the bottom . |
| 17 | I had plenty of time to think this through as I sat in my leisure jam that Sunday . |
| 18 | I read , just as I had at the Moroneys , yet with the single difference in this case there was a young man , Aoin O'Heiher , a nephew of Liam O'Flaherty and he introduced me to writers like Eliot and Joyce . |
| 19 | He said I ca n't I 'm here on my own , he said get a cab and I 'll give you the money back , so anyway I rung Pauline 's husband up Steve and he said I 'll take you , I said to Steve I 've got ta get there for one o'clock cos I said I really do feel that if I do n't see him before he goes I ai n't gon na bloody see him , he was ever so good , he were here at twenty to one , got straight in the car put his foot down , went to the General and just as I got in the door Steve do n't worry about me parking , go , I 'll find you , just get in there , I ran through the bloody doors , ran up the stairs cos I knew |
| 20 | Just as I walked out the door , there was that there , and I said , Oh what 's this . |
| 21 | The interior was just as I expected from the books I had seen at school . |
| 22 | And as for you , miss , ’ she said , rounding on Theda , ‘ you 're no better than you should be , just as I suspected at the outset . ’ |
| 23 | I share the hon. Gentleman 's views in the context of the six-week-old baby , just as I do in the context of the children in the school playground who were under threat this morning when the attack was made on the taxi driver . |
| 24 | Just as I flicked off the lock , Bunny must have pulled from the outside . |
| 25 | Just as I spoke to Moses . |
| 26 | Just as I feel like stamping on it , Yeb pulls it back in and smiles . |
| 27 | But as soon as I get into bed and shut my eyes , this racket starts up . |
| 28 | Soon as I get into bed I feel wide awake . |
| 29 | ‘ I may have to miss the first game but I 'm hoping to get myself a boot made for my left foot with a steel plate in it to protect the toe so that I can practice as soon as I get to India . ’ |
| 30 | I can hassle for business contacts in these areas at conferences as soon as I get to a conference . |