Example sentences of "[adj] as i [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You mentioned erm tumours , in fact you get this as I said the same picture with , with X-rays as you get with magnetic resonance imaging , but what is different about tumours apparently is that the erm relaxation time with which the erm nuclei move erm varies erm according to whether a cell is , is cancerous or not . |
| 2 | Yes , but , the the main part of this as I understand the drawing , you 'll have to ask Mr when he comes , but the main part of , of the square , which would n't be the third which is done in the first phase according to the phase that they 're currently proposing . |
| 3 | The café looked deserted as I approached the front door . |
| 4 | Anyway , it was dead quiet and I felt a bit funny as I opened the door- ’ She stopped . |
| 5 | It is cool outside as I throw a log on the gently breathing embers . |
| 6 | I like Mrs Tamm 's silence almost as much as I like the impersonality of my room . |
| 7 | Well I think much as I welcome the university proceeding down the road that it is , erm I have a very , very strong feeling that change is going to come from the bottom up , and I think that it 'll come from the bottom up in those colleges , like New College , who have got an increasingly large number of women fellows who feel that , you know , there 's safety in numbers and we can start to do something about it . |
| 8 | I really , I 've never hated people as much as I hate the teachers in this school . |
| 9 | For as much as I reject the demo mentality , I also despair at the apolitical bipartisanship of our national mainstream parties . |
| 10 | He wants me to look very ordinary , very much as I did the day I trespassed . |
| 11 | And much as I coveted a wonderful watercolour by Albert that I came across in an Alice Springs gallery for 4,000 dollars I was even more taken with the traditional native art , particularly since it seemed to offer useful hints about a problem I had of seeing the outback in ways other than through the window-on-the-world vision that developed in Renaissance Italy . |
| 12 | Just as much as I disliked the lean , tanned , grinning face that he presented on the comm screen . |
| 13 | I ended up lying in the scrubby grass at the bottom of the hill , my knuckles white as I throttled the rabbit , swinging it in front of my face with its neck held on the thin black line of rubber tubing , now tied like a knot on a black string . |
| 14 | Going to give the table a push that was as hard as I pushed the pen and |
| 15 | But because I was in like really really tight tights , er like and then a pair of ski pants over the top er , my whole leg was like , you know , sort of soaked in and this bloke was there going , hee , that 's pretty impressive and I was like , I 'm not going to let him know I was crying and like got up and went to the top of the slope and I carried on skiing for about an extra half an hour , but like when I got home , and I just took off , my whole leg started , feet swelling as I took the like , the tight like leggings off . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd forgotten how loud and exhausting she could be , ’ remarked my mother later as I peeled the potatoes . |
| 17 | I felt curious as I said the words in an office to a man the other side of a desk with white flowers and greenery in a vase . |
| 18 | ‘ You mean as long as I clean the bath , he or she will leave me in peace , right ? ’ |
| 19 | As long as I had a sympathetic host , of course . |
| 20 | I hope so , as long as I get a sleep at night , I do n't care what you 're giving me . |
| 21 | Perhaps somebody 's working at Kingston , as long as I get a trial . |
| 22 | Setback ‘ I do n't mind where I go as long as I get an opportunity with one of their clubs . |
| 23 | No , I do n't mind where I sit as long as I got a seat , ha , ha . |
| 24 | As long as I told a teacher I was alright . |
| 25 | ‘ I have , ’ the young man told his father , ‘ taken a firm resolution to conquer or dye , and [ to ] stand my ground as long as I have a man remaining with me . ’ |
| 26 | The answer was that I could play as long as I stayed the audience side of the footlights ! |
| 27 | That part had been almost too easy , but I felt naked and exposed as I crossed the deserted space between the Grand and the hotels on the opposite side . |
| 28 | You say someone such as myself , but I am as far as I understand the housekeeper of this house , while your father is the under-butler . ’ |
| 29 | It took place quite a long time ago , it is known as the cessation of the plebs there were two occasions on which the workers of of Ancient Rome and withdrew from the city and their t the terms on which as as far as I recollect the terms of their return where that somebody should write down the law in comprehensible terms and that there should be a special officer , a tribune appointed who could if necessary explain what the law was to them . |
| 30 | I already knew it was n't a good idea ; I could hear the tone of my voice rising higher and higher as I spoke the sentence , and that was always a sign I was getting into some sort of verbal mess . |