Example sentences of "[noun sg] as i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An and the next day of action as I said before is on tropical rainforests erm . |
| 2 | A girl of about Xanthe 's age bounced up to my side as I walked slowly along in front of the grandstand , and said , ‘ Hi ! |
| 3 | They stood to the side as I entered then the woman showed me to a chair as the man brought two glasses and placed them on the table in front of me , then said very seriously , ‘ This is my wife . |
| 4 | My only emotion as I went back into the box was cold rage . |
| 5 | It was growing dark as I walked down the pier alone , his jacket draped over my shoulders , and I wondered if I should really look for Wilde at all . |
| 6 | The configuration of lights speed up , broaden , and throw different shadows into the car as I pull up a freeway ramp . |
| 7 | Whether the Council I , I personally would be quite keen to go down there and see A , and we 'd need permission of the land owners , to do this , to see where the link could go across , you know , the best position , so that we , and I believe this is what Councillor is saying , so that we can actually come forward and maybe this ought to be a meeting with the Amenities Committee , maybe the Ramblers and bear in mind as I say again I hate to do these things and the land owner think we 're steamrollering 'em into something without their knowledge . |
| 8 | Then I ate the sandwich as I walked back to Wavebreaker . |
| 9 | Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use . |
| 10 | ‘ But that does n't bother me now — in fact I sometimes stick my tongue out in reply as I drive away . ’ |
| 11 | He is starting his reply as I put down the receiver . |
| 12 | I served er my apprenticeship as I said in . |
| 13 | I felt very much the wallflower as I crept out of the room without speaking to anyone , my books held tightly against my chest in a way which , I was to learn , was feminine and wrong for a man . |
| 14 | I relived the murder as I walked back home through the streets . |
| 15 | I wept and I hugged my father and I even hugged Diggs , smelling his hard-blue uniform fabric as I did so and almost feeling him melt and believe me . |
| 16 | I wonder if I could answer that in a in a different way because clearly rather there 's the option , rather than reduction the operational capability which was really the er initiative that had begun in nineteen ninety two , there is the option of course of er adjusting the total numbers and that would er have an overall bearing on the total programme cost but cert because certainly the judgement of the er the chiefs of staff was that er as far as the U K was concerned then we we should retain the operational capability as I explained earlier an n and not decrease it in any significant extent because if we did that then we could end up er with an inferior capability against a potential threat . |
| 17 | I should like to learn what , if anything , I can do here to enrol for any suitable course to get me into the business world or administration as I do not want to wait till I return to the UK , on leave , in mid-June till I begin finding out more about your courses . |
| 18 | At the Hospedaje Lisboa where Dana stayed — ‘ Camas , Comidas ’ — I looked up at his window as I had so often done on those lonely days and nights he spent away from me . |
| 19 | You 're as big a fool as I 've always suspected — ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Sometimes I 'm in such a tearing hurry I just grab a nappy and bottle on the run as I head out of the door . ’ |
| 21 | However , conditions for the time of the year seemed favourable and I was in hopeful mood as I rowed carefully out on the meadow side to a drop-off at about 70 yards I knew to be there . |
| 22 | Taff was in a foul mood as I jumped down into the trench . |
| 23 | And er I remember this Miss very well , she was i , skirt down to her ankles sort of thing , black skirt you know and high collar and sort of tied hair , very dark person but she was a very nice charming lady as I recall now . |
| 24 | She was sitting on her heels with a pin in her mouth , eyeing me with pity as I stood yet again in my mother 's wedding dress . |
| 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 | The draft position paper goes sliding over the edge of the desk into the waste-paper basket as I snatch up the receiver . |
| 27 | I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin . |
| 28 | Open pastureland succeeded the neglected wood as I walked on , and soon I came to a rough circle of boulders on a mound — Lisheen , the little fort , home of fairies . |
| 29 | The German mortars were exploding on the other side of the wood as I clambered out of the trench and made my way through the trees in the direction of the road . |
| 30 | The London-Glasgow train was packed to capacity as I struggled aboard and managed to find a small space opposite the toilet ; the corridor and compartments being jampacked with a seething mass of Service people . |