Example sentences of "[pers pn] as i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they 're perhaps , if anything too generous because er , I will remind you as I said of the , at least three hundred companies who are doing pretty effective work in this area . |
| 2 | I tell you as I walked past there on Friday , she said yeah she said we were still open then , they closed it that night , ridiculous |
| 3 | Like this I ca n't treat you as I wish to . ’ |
| 4 | " I could never feel about you as I do about Horatia . |
| 5 | Am I distressing you as I talk like this ? ’ . |
| 6 | And in fact if if if if er we look along this line , at the moment we as I said in my introduction we have two districts or three districts who have expressed support for the principal , and of those of those one has given a clear indication that it would , this might be too , er high a phrase , welcome a new settlement , within its district . |
| 7 | I was feeling pretty angry with her as I stomped across that big field , but when I reached her my heart just melted . |
| 8 | I waved back at him as I cruised down the drive . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw him as I ran into the glade . |
| 10 | I think I thought I wanted to be part of that companionship too but knew it would conclude with my entry But that did n't have to happen because he was closing the kitchen door behind him as I arrived in the passage . |
| 11 | you to do is er give me his telephone number so that I er contact him , offer the same service to him as I have to you . |
| 12 | In order to believe in the Devil we must rid ourselves of unhelpful images of him ( though we do not need to wax philosophical about him as I did for the doubting lady ! ) . |
| 13 | I did then go about the task Mr Farraday had set me with some dedication ; I spent many hours working on the staff plan , and at least as many hours again thinking about it as I went about other duties or as I lay awake after retiring . |
| 14 | I was so glad of it as I ran from the admission ward to my office and back . |
| 15 | Er so , that task , much of it under legislation , is carried out by fire officers and much of it as I say by good will and erm er advice to householders and bodies and erm big concerns and so on . |
| 16 | The board has the same switches on it as I have on the rack , so if Bryan presses the board they light up for me too , so I can see what he 's got on . |
| 17 | I felt I needed all mine as I stood on guard outside the Grand . |
| 18 | They caught me as I came through the lounge door . |
| 19 | I asked him if he had any advice for me as I went to Rhodesia . |
| 20 | He nodded and did not follow me as I got off the train . |
| 21 | I would often see her watching me as I played in the fields . |
| 22 | Ricardo shows great patience with me as I reach for the dictionary or , using a book and his long fingers , he makes the rituals clear to me . |
| 23 | Wiggen , one of my wheel dog pair , a monster of a dog weighing nearly thirty-five kilograms , jumps all over me as I go for him . |
| 24 | An inner excitement gripped me as I saw in my mind 's eye an image of Clare trying to hobble round her bedroom . |
| 25 | But to me as I struggled with his detoxifying diet , he was a disembodied , stern sounding voice , a god who had handed down the law . |
| 26 | He looked at me as I walked through the door and looked to the Gendarme as if to say , Is this him ? |
| 27 | I recall the amazing blue of a field fare 's sunlit back ( drab grey on a grey day ) ; the tantalising glimpses of a secretive water rail which crept and scuttled in the shelter of a ditch ( red bill , black and white striped flanks , richly streaked brown back , bluish-grey neck ) ; and the rusty red flanks of a redwing which shot up in front of me as I walked past willow scrub behind the barrier bank . |
| 28 | I had n't even noticed the pickets and I can only presume that they had parted before me as I walked towards them as they still do today . |
| 29 | Some odd irresponsibility is stirring in me as I listen to Serafin 's preposterous diatribe . |
| 30 | If she had felt as deeply for me as I felt for her there would n't be a need for all that . |