Example sentences of "[noun] as i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An and the next day of action as I said before is on tropical rainforests erm . |
| 2 | A girl of about Xanthe 's age bounced up to my side as I walked slowly along in front of the grandstand , and said , ‘ Hi ! |
| 3 | They stood to the side as I entered then the woman showed me to a chair as the man brought two glasses and placed them on the table in front of me , then said very seriously , ‘ This is my wife . |
| 4 | My only emotion as I went back into the box was cold rage . |
| 5 | The frown was back between his eyes as I put on the light in my room . |
| 6 | I was rubbing my eyes as I clambered out of the trench . |
| 7 | Mum and Dad were dozing in their chairs but Dad opened his eyes as I sat down and asked if I 'd enjoyed the picture . |
| 8 | It was growing dark as I walked down the pier alone , his jacket draped over my shoulders , and I wondered if I should really look for Wilde at all . |
| 9 | The configuration of lights speed up , broaden , and throw different shadows into the car as I pull up a freeway ramp . |
| 10 | Whether the Council I , I personally would be quite keen to go down there and see A , and we 'd need permission of the land owners , to do this , to see where the link could go across , you know , the best position , so that we , and I believe this is what Councillor is saying , so that we can actually come forward and maybe this ought to be a meeting with the Amenities Committee , maybe the Ramblers and bear in mind as I say again I hate to do these things and the land owner think we 're steamrollering 'em into something without their knowledge . |
| 11 | Then I ate the sandwich as I walked back to Wavebreaker . |
| 12 | ‘ We must be nearly in range by now , ’ I said to Jean as I turned back to channel 20 . |
| 13 | Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use . |
| 14 | ‘ But that does n't bother me now — in fact I sometimes stick my tongue out in reply as I drive away . ’ |
| 15 | He is starting his reply as I put down the receiver . |
| 16 | I served er my apprenticeship as I said in . |
| 17 | I felt very much the wallflower as I crept out of the room without speaking to anyone , my books held tightly against my chest in a way which , I was to learn , was feminine and wrong for a man . |
| 18 | I relived the murder as I walked back home through the streets . |
| 19 | It was a reworking of the same materials apropos Hungary as I had already seen in Prague apropos Czechoslovakia . |
| 20 | I wept and I hugged my father and I even hugged Diggs , smelling his hard-blue uniform fabric as I did so and almost feeling him melt and believe me . |
| 21 | I wonder if I could answer that in a in a different way because clearly rather there 's the option , rather than reduction the operational capability which was really the er initiative that had begun in nineteen ninety two , there is the option of course of er adjusting the total numbers and that would er have an overall bearing on the total programme cost but cert because certainly the judgement of the er the chiefs of staff was that er as far as the U K was concerned then we we should retain the operational capability as I explained earlier an n and not decrease it in any significant extent because if we did that then we could end up er with an inferior capability against a potential threat . |
| 22 | I should like to learn what , if anything , I can do here to enrol for any suitable course to get me into the business world or administration as I do not want to wait till I return to the UK , on leave , in mid-June till I begin finding out more about your courses . |
| 23 | And we pre-process the data as I say commonly for all the neurons before we present it to our three neurons . |
| 24 | He jumped to his feet as I came in . |
| 25 | The next day , while we were exercising , Brian kept watch under the door for the guards ' feet as I tapped out , ‘ We are Brian Keenan and John McCarthy . |
| 26 | That time was lifted from my feet as I hurtled backwards . |
| 27 | It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent . |
| 28 | At the Hospedaje Lisboa where Dana stayed — ‘ Camas , Comidas ’ — I looked up at his window as I had so often done on those lonely days and nights he spent away from me . |
| 29 | The tent is extremely stable especially in very high winds as I found out on a few wet and wild nights . |
| 30 | I would allow the appeal and give the directions as I set out in my judgment . |