Example sentences of "[adj] as i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The night sky was still fairly light as I walked through the village , passing close to No. 6 Commando positions . |
| 2 | Similarly , through Lata 's sister 's marriage to Pran you 're led into the world of politics and the subject of land reform , which sounded dull to me at first but became much more interesting as I got into it . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't feel alarmed as I know of many secret passages , but they have all become too small to use . |
| 4 | I never understand why the teeth of winter bite so cruelly down into the bone , how daylight sickens from the east , why Elsbeth is so chill as I lie with her , why the nights are so long , without word or gleam . |
| 5 | On a dry but extremely windy day I never once felt cold as I sat on top of Red Screes for half an hour munching through my packed lunch . |
| 6 | I step back , then turn and run , the clinging wetness round my thighs going from warm to cold as I race beneath the snow-shrouded trees towards the house . |
| 7 | Within days it was obvious that the extent of the dissolution was every bit as great as I had at first suspected . |
| 8 | I began to see that my fear about Mary obscuring Christ was not soundly based as long as I keep to the parameters of Scripture . |
| 9 | I was surprised to be able to stand and read as long as I liked without feeling a hand on my shoulder . |
| 10 | Do you think I should have lived as long as I have on meat ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You do n't stay in the business as long as I have without learning a little bit about people . |
| 12 | I gave them as long as I dared before cutting up a newsprint lorry and following them . |
| 13 | ‘ If they 're easy trousers , I can do maybe 30 pairs a day , as long as I start at eight in the morning and finish at eight at night . |
| 14 | When I stayed with my husband and children at the Holcombe Hotel in Oxfordshire on the Great Escapes scheme this summer I was told I would get free accommodation as long as I stayed for two nights and paid for dinner and breakfast at a cost of £33.20 each per day . |
| 15 | Yeah , as long as I look like her . |
| 16 | My heart is very heavy as I look upon My Church . |
| 17 | My head becomes cloudy as I lie on my rock peering through the grass at the scene down below . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As far as I recall from the last meeting . |
| 20 | Denver and my own personal erm opposition to terminal five , living as I do in South West Herts is obviously covered by the fact that I do live within fifteen minutes drive of Heathrow or an hour and three quarters if you go by the M twenty five . |
| 21 | And my cheeks were red as I thought of those precious moments . |
| 22 | Another sensor high in one corner glows red as I move towards the foot of the stairs . |
| 23 | I had another coffee ; I was confused , irritable and dizzy as I stood by the buffet and watched the station cleaners , suddenly desperate to be on my way before tiredness made me change my mind . |
| 24 | It 's still not perfect , but I do n't feel half as hindered as I used to … ' |
| 25 | I remember thinking something unprintable as I flew through the air and remember wishing I 'd worn a body protector as I landed very hard . |
| 26 | I remember thinking something unprintable as I flew through the air ’ |
| 27 | I remember feeling a bit disappointed as I went to school on the morning of my birthday — I 'd rather have stayed home and finished the aviary . |
| 28 | " I " m not so young as I used to was " is wrong , except that when Somerset Maughan makes a Cockney landlady say it , it makes perfectly good sense . |
| 29 | ‘ Not as sharp as I needed to be , though , ’ she said . |
| 30 | A harmless grass snake , I concluded , although I must admit that the proximity of the Reptile Centre did make me a touch more circumspect than usual as I made for the summit . |