Example sentences of "[adj] as i [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The café looked deserted as I approached the front door . |
| 2 | Anyway , it was dead quiet and I felt a bit funny as I opened the door- ’ She stopped . |
| 3 | It is cool outside as I throw a log on the gently breathing embers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Going to give the table a push that was as hard as I pushed the pen and |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ You mean as long as I clean the bath , he or she will leave me in peace , right ? ’ |
| 9 | As long as I had a sympathetic host , of course . |
| 10 | I hope so , as long as I get a sleep at night , I do n't care what you 're giving me . |
| 11 | Perhaps somebody 's working at Kingston , as long as I get a trial . |
| 12 | Setback ‘ I do n't mind where I go as long as I get an opportunity with one of their clubs . |
| 13 | No , I do n't mind where I sit as long as I got a seat , ha , ha . |
| 14 | As long as I told a teacher I was alright . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | The answer was that I could play as long as I stayed the audience side of the footlights ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It 's another day , I have slept for more than ten hours and am now famished as I follow the smell of cooking to a spot behind the barn . |
| 21 | I know that as certain as I know no one will ask me onto the floor tonight . ’ |
| 22 | It seems very strange as I enter the town hall . |
| 23 | This allows me to mix any colour I want , and to be economic as I have no need for numerous bottles of ink . |
| 24 | Bert and Duncan were as uninformed as I regarding the forthcoming events of the programme . |
| 25 | ‘ I am more and more Christian as I walk the unchristian ways of Christendom ’ , he wrote , confessing himself ‘ a conscientious objector with a very seared conscience ’ . |
| 26 | I felt very humbled as I left the conqueror of Everest and the Sherpa 's most vocal mouthpiece still sipping his tea . |