Example sentences of "[adj] as i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel silently amused at this as I stand there in her doorway . |
| 2 | I have a particular affinity with CLIC as I have recently lost two members of my family through cancer , one of them was especially young . |
| 3 | And Hambleton are are being more restrained as I said earlier , is appropriate to our own policy . |
| 4 | Yet something was clearly wrong as I battled hard to find my rhythm . |
| 5 | I tend to paint very quickly , so the paint is always rather damp as I flit round the paper , putting a colour here and one there , and at first it all looks a bit of a jumble . |
| 6 | My smile stays really charming as I stop forward and kick , flat-footed , against the edge of the door . |
| 7 | I , on the other hand , was free as I had never been before : free of the boring business of examinations to be got through and jobs to be found , I was forming my life into a growing , organic design , normal and beautiful . |
| 8 | I was thoughtful as I headed off in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | Jean-Claude , exhausted by the long ride from Paris and a late night of in-toxication , moaned something unintelligible as I got out of bed , rolled over and promptly went back to sleep . |
| 10 | But in so far as I achieve awareness from your viewpoint I feel the pull towards your goals , and even when I resist , I do so very much as I push away inclinations of my own which are dangerous to my long-term ambitions ; a choice between your goals and mine belongs among my choices of ends . |
| 11 | They threw me from the battlements into the sea , but the rocks were merciless and did not kill me , though I have never longed for death so much as I did then . |
| 12 | If I had ever loved you , if I loved you still , I could not hate myself for my weakness as much as I do now . ’ |
| 13 | Erm what 's the other thing , Yeah the place that I 've just picked up erm a part time job , has said I can record as much as I want there . |
| 14 | There were seventy- five paintings in the exhibition and by the time I left , which was quite early as I did not stay for dinner , most of the pictures had a little red sold label . |
| 15 | The fire was warm as I sat down to contemplate whether to stay overnight with my relatives just outside Fort William , or start walking to Achnacarry some ten miles or so away . |
| 16 | The purpose of the USRC was explained by its secretary to Lord Willoughby de Broke in August 1911 : " I still remain convinced as I have always been that unless you put yourself straight with the people on Social questions all your Tariff Reform , Home Rule or Constitutional thunderbolts will be discharged -in vain . |
| 17 | ‘ But first I must catch up with Posh Porky as I do n't ‘ ave much capital left of my own . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm as fit as I 've ever been but I 'm lacking match practice , ’ says Kirk . |
| 19 | like a cabbage white as I forked out a fiver |
| 20 | They drifted even deeper as I looked back , probably to get below the iceberg . |
| 21 | I 'd just ru run out the cinema twice as fast as I went in ! |
| 22 | Well , it 's as fast as I got round |
| 23 | We were taken off for a shower — which was welcome as I had n't washed properly since the night before I left London- and then shown our beds in the barrack rooms on the second and third floors . |
| 24 | Actually I felt strangely subdued as I drove home . |
| 25 | At least the rain keeps the mosquitoes away , and the flashes from the guns lighting up the sky appear somewhat comforting as I doze off , conscious of the rain dripping on to my boots . |
| 26 | It 's a production to be recommended there 's lot of fun , good singing and the riverbank scene of Act 3 was as effective as I have ever seen , not least for Colin Rees 's mercurial exploration of the fat knight 's character even though the river was more Essex marshes than Windsor . |
| 27 | She 's simply being as welcoming and hospitable as I 've always heard the Taiwanese are , and trying to help me feel at home and among friends because she knows what it 's like to be a newcomer in a foreign city herself . ’ |
| 28 | The four Strauss songs are unremarkable as I have already inferred , but the Sibelius , Rangström and Grieg , the texts fully comprehended , are all given considered readings . |
| 29 | I FELT confident as I went through . |
| 30 | The undercut cave is dark and mysterious but the lightness of the sandy bottom becomes apparent as I look across the bend , the water becoming shallower as I scan across to the inside of the bend . |