Example sentences of "i [verb] [conj] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I cursed but did as he requested and afterwards we slipped down the darkened stairway out of the main door where Benjamin had ordered a sleepy-eyed groom to bring round the horses . |
| 2 | So I fretted and sweated as they stalked in and stared around with that disapproving , accusatory look of all cops everywhere . |
| 3 | ’ I screamed and kicked as she held me . |
| 4 | I turn and nod as he disappears backwards through the hatch . |
| 5 | I thought that see as we 've given them five hundred before , perhaps you 'd consider giving them , perhaps two hundred and fifty this time . |
| 6 | For once in my life there was no need to believe as I did or act as I chose for any reasons other than that I was personally convinced it was right . |
| 7 | ' — but how many times have I stood and laughed as that man on the hobbyhorse , a fool , an outsider to the troupe , prances round and through the dancers ? |
| 8 | I sat and cried as I thought of the danger to Elizabeth . |