Example sentences of "[adv] as i [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon , clouds spilled over Carn Dearg and it darkened suddenly as I ascended the mountain . |
| 2 | ‘ Much as I like the idea , I do n't think your parents would be best pleased would they ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ My darling girl , ’ he said , ‘ much as I hate the idea , we must stop this . |
| 4 | Much as I admire a great deal of Ken Worpole 's contributions to discussion on alternative methods of arts funding — his and Geoff Mulgan 's ‘ Saturday Night , Sunday Morning ’ was an invaluable piece of work — his thoughts ( almost gleeful I thought ) on the problems of civic buildings ( MT May ) were shot through with the baby-out-with-the-bathwater conclusions which seem to be endemic in much new times and new Left thinking on the arts generally . |
| 5 | Much as I admire the French , nothing can compare with being back home in good old Blighty . |
| 6 | Much as I love the works of J.R.R. Tolkien , I refuse to call any dog Bilbo Baggins , so Bill he has become ; anyway , the only resemblance between Bill and a hobbit is that both have hairy feet and a liking for grubbing around in sandy holes . |
| 7 | Squeeze them in sure we 'll find somewhere for them to go , vacate , so long as I get a kiss from everybody apart from the boys and |
| 8 | So long as I get the train . ’ |
| 9 | So long as I shove the washing in the do n't like it in there it 's dingy , unless the sun 's out . |
| 10 | This will be fine so long as I obey the ‘ point cam moving rule ’ while doing this and for every move thereafter . |
| 11 | So long as I hold the office of Home Secretary , I shall give no countenance to the view that they should not be prevented from being such a danger . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm in good shape and I will sing for as long as I have the strength to do so , ’ he added . |
| 13 | I 'm afraid I ca n't subscribe to the theory that man should always be ‘ bloody , bold and resolute ’ ; but rather , I confess , that it 's very comforting to lean on you sometimes … more especially as I 've a funny instinct that if I follow your ways I ca n't go wrong , whereas my own existence is apt to be hardening , as you can see that it must be . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , anyway … the last thing I wanted to do was to get involved in a fight — especially as I had the children with me . |
| 15 | Especially as I get the accents right . |
| 16 | Especially as I get the accents right . |
| 17 | So as I sipped the barely brown dishwater he passed off as coffee ( at a wholly extortionate price ) I was able to thaw my limbs , re-line my stomach , rest my hand and ponder at length the best or most honest method by which to tackle the remainder of this difficult and embarrassing work of explanation . |
| 18 | I finished the song and only as I left the stage did I realise I had wet myself with fear . |
| 19 | JUST AS I LOATHE THE WORD ‘ WORKSHOP ’ , I FEEL QUEASY WHEN PLACES include the word ‘ centre ’ . |
| 20 | Just as I left the station for the bus stop , the siren went . |
| 21 | And then just as I left the stage , sobbing , I heard somebody say , ‘ Well , I do n't admire her dress-sense . ’ |
| 22 | Beejay always seems to spot the object in the hedge that he can not possibly pass without a protect , just as I hear the roar of a fast-moving car at our rear . |
| 23 | ‘ There ! ’ he said abruptly and threw the plane straight again , but this time dropping the nose , and I saw a jeep churning dust from the dirt road which ran the length of the island 's long shank , between the golf course and the houses , and just as I saw the jeep so the red tracer bullets began climbing from a machine-gun mounted in the back of the vehicle . |
| 24 | Just as I gave the final push , my hand found a rope over the end of the ship . |
| 25 | It suddenly occurred to me that just as I wanted the boys to dress according to Western ideas when they were in London , so the Sheikha and Sheikha Grandmother would like me to dress according to their ideas of fashion when I was with them . |
| 26 | Just as I have no idea how Lowden keep their guitars as light as this , I 've no idea how they get such a warm , full response out of a medium-sized , thin-bodied instrument . |
| 27 | Officially speaking anyway , just as I have a passport . |
| 28 | Equality brings emancipation : according to Marx it will be ‘ possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow , to hunt in the morning , fish in the afternoon , rear cattle in the evening , criticise after dinner , just as I have a mind without ever becoming hunter , fisherman , shepherd or critic ’ . |
| 29 | Just as I have the right to live mine … ’ |
| 30 | I , the armchair observer , lament the cessation of the old skills and crafts just as I deplore the desecration of the open fields by more and more bypasses , pylons , wires , bungalows , concrete , traffic and litter . |