Example sentences of "[conj] as i [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I parked the jeep under a tree and then , looking at my watch , I decided that as I had a couple of hours to spare I would take a walk across to the other bridge where I had noticed a café on our first day into Normandy . |
| 2 | By the looks of it it is that as I say a screw 's keeping that thing on . |
| 3 | mimics them and that , oh I hate that , I hate that as I say a few times I thought to myself I do not like |
| 4 | In military terms , I was called a runner , and as I had no bicycle at that time , running was literally what I did ! |
| 5 | He was very drowsy , and as I had no intention of letting him wake himself up with a conversation on my private life or anything else , I said I did not believe in mixing business and pleasure , and , as I hoped , the cliché put him to sleep . |
| 6 | Our leader was soon grunting in a semi layback posture , and as I had the appropriate page open , I could not resist reading out loud : ‘ … |
| 7 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 8 | She gave such an unpleasant laugh with these last words that I did n't know what to say , and as I left the house I felt even more miserable . |
| 9 | We then came up against a stop , and as I said a moment ago , our choice was between that budget , as negotiated , and the Labour budget , and I 've just shown you one hole in that budget . |
| 10 | And and as I said the work is at risk and and do n't kid yourself it ai n't . |
| 11 | ‘ Open it , Margaret , ’ cried my mother , and as I made no move she herself ripped off its coverings . |
| 12 | The secret is holding it in check , rationing it , saving the best of yourself for the night , and as I scanned the running order in the lull before the storm , I still could n't decide on a personal favourite . |
| 13 | As the buzz or the haze receded , and as I chewed the last tasteless fragment of sandwiched thermoplastic , I steadied myself by counting the melamine tables and counting the chairs and counting the customers and counting the sticky sauce bottles and the dome-shaped salt cellars and the cups , the plates , the cutlery , the ashtrays , anything in sight . |
| 14 | It felt like my wrist , but could n't have been , and as I reached the surface of consciousness , it was jerked from my hand and I was rocked fully awake by suddenly unburdened bedsprings as my Pop leapt from my bed to stand beside me . |
| 15 | The club 's planes were usually Tiger Moths in the main , and as I remember the main airport building adjacent to the main road , pre war , were building Swallow side-cars for motorbikes . |
| 16 | I remembered that I too hated the dust , and as I imagined the walk into the desert I felt the sky come low and very close . |
| 17 | I just said ‘ Yes ? ’ and as I dropped the pen she 'd handed me back into her bag , I noticed that she carried at least two fat rolls of ten-pound notes secured with circular gold clips shaped like salamanders , or maybe alligators . |
| 18 | Well they 're a lot of fun and kids love them , and as I commented a little earlier to somebody I still have n't quite forgiven my mother-in-law for the chemistry set she bought my seven year old . |
| 19 | I 'm paid an incredibly generous salary and as I have no living expenses , I 've been able to save nearly all of it . |
| 20 | But er we eventually beat it though and as I say a good colliery you could er you could beat 'em to it . |
| 21 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 22 | Can I just point out that something here , erm , was , I think I mentioned about my children it was the height of the table and its just so little that , that they indicate their in height in this picture , but it is there and , erm , that , I found that really very exciting and as I say the , The Threes , it , the three goblets , the three apples the three puppies , so often I 've , I 've found that there is three sets of , three objects and in |
| 23 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 24 | And as I say the curiosity is that it it was actually addressed to Mansfield . |
| 25 | Oh yes , oh yes , oh mum went there for years and years every Saturday yeah , and as I say the wagonettes used to erm be stationed up by Albion Street , to take er shopping and , and er and Rushbrooks used to be the big confectioners then , that 's on the , it used to be on the corner of erm Albion , well there 's a market there , an indoor market now is n't there yeah they were the er the big confectioners Rushbrooks , and er bakers and confectioners and er all the barrels of flour used to be , you could see all that going in you know but er I do n't know whether it is , am I making it interesting , is it interesting for you ? |
| 26 | And there you see again in early B R days , er the er the station master 's house , and er er and the station itself , over here , the goods shed over there , the various track works coming across , the er line up to round here , and as I say the various sidings that were put in to accommodate the additional er colliery and other traffic . |
| 27 | I mean we hope we 're doing the right thing , and as I say the response we 're getting seems to indicate that , but we have not erm followed through each of we have a large number of participants every year , you see , in the order of about erm a hundred and fifty each year , so very difficult for you to try and follow through the fate of each of them . |
| 28 | I started the motor and rolled out into the highway , and as I slipped the gear lever into position a round red glow appeared in the mirror over my head . |
| 29 | I always run just as fast I have to , and as I neared the finish I looked across to make sure that I had qualified , and there was Carl . |
| 30 | Mr Beamish received the medicine unsmilingly and as I opened the car door I felt a gush of relief that the uncomfortable visit was at an end . |