Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There I finally decided to throw in my efforts at making contact with the Delhi eunuchs ; it was taking up a lot of time and there was still no hint of a breakthrough : after ten days I still knew as little about them as I had when I had begun . |
| 2 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 3 | I wondered if he felt as strongly about me as I did about him . |
| 4 | " I know you do n't feel about me as I do about you , but that does n't matter . " |
| 5 | How sorry I felt for them as I stood with my images of a future of crackling kindling and bringing the pine logs hither and other rustic carry-ons . |
| 6 | If she had felt as deeply for me as I felt for her there would n't be a need for all that . |
| 7 | I asked him if he had any advice for me as I went to Rhodesia . |
| 8 | This was a joy for me as I had puzzled often on the jumble of tops visible from the A82 and in the mass of high peaks this area contains . |
| 9 | They began with Haydn 's Cello Concerto , which was a pleasant surprise for me as I had heard the piece only a week or two before at a concert of Mozart and Haydn 's music featuring Camerata and had liked the piece very much . |
| 10 | erm , my name 's from Edinburgh a couple of jobs one which is the sort of presentations I do tends to be one to one the hardest one for me as I say meetings with quite a lot of people there |
| 11 | But all seemed to go well for me as I climbed from boat to boat successfully , and then all I had to do was get to the wall from the last boat . |
| 12 | He was just 43 and said : ‘ It 's a dream come true for me as I have been a lifelong supporter of Liverpool . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You would n't have thought so if you 'd heard him shouting after me as I ran away , ’ Sarah said . |
| 14 | ‘ See you later , Boyo , ’ he shouted after me as I set off , rifle over my shoulder , through the trees in the direction of Brigade H.Q |
| 15 | Charlie cantered after me as I hurried back to the Dressing Room . |
| 16 | I protested , waving my arms and running after her as I saw the possibility of getting into Ashley 's increasingly attractive body slipping away from me . |
| 17 | Employing a lounge-lizard gait , he swaggered towards me as I stood at the bar waiting for my Coke . |
| 18 | The eldest of the group who moved towards me as I jumped out of the van was no more than thirty . |
| 19 | I blame the fact that a crow chose to hover below me as I scrambled up a tricky bit of path , made more perilous by loose shifting gravel . |
| 20 | Yes , it slipped past me as I opened the door . ’ |
| 21 | In his Life he made William X of Aquitaine protest against Louis 's meddling in the Auvergne , with the words : ‘ If the count of Auvergne has committed any fault , it is my duty to present him at your court on your order , because he holds the Auvergne of me as I hold it of you . ’ |
| 22 | I remember so clearly the day when the old seaman came to stay — I can almost see him in front of me as I write . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Young wheat ears flitted across from the top of one drystone wall to another in front of me as I walked . |
| 25 | I forgot all about donating and the transfusion service lost track of me as I moved from house to house over the years , until the other day when the subject came up in the office . |
| 26 | Again Yorkshire and Humberside er Scotland and Wales tending to lead that erm all of them as I said have got strong output trends erm in terms of Yorkshire and Humberside the orders er seem to be very much domestic rather than export but widely spread between sectors which gives |
| 27 | When I went to bed , I had a few ‘ sort of ’ pains , but I did n't think anything of them as I 'd had these kind of niggly pains a lot over the last week or so . |
| 28 | By definition , if there are hundreds and thousands of them , I must meet one or two of them as I go around , but I never do . |
| 29 | erm disclosed erm there are dates on some of them as I established |
| 30 | I knew I found it hard to remember they were there , was very aware of you as I talked . |