Example sentences of "as [pron] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I put a hand into the language space and drew the briefcase to the front ; and it was of black crocodile skin with gold clasps , as I 'd seen at Nottingham races .
2 Com , coming out the back tell me how just as I 'd gone by the door and er
3 Sixty-seven , but as I 'd said to Ruth Cohen , lively with it .
4 Very irritating because er if only I 'd approached David earlier as I 'd intended to .
5 I intended to pick up my car and come over to see you as soon as I 'd talked to Bertelli , but when I got back here Lorenzini had this message from up near the fort .
6 ‘ … well , they got up and left so I thought I 'd clear their glasses as soon as I 'd finished with the man I was serving .
7 The midwife suggested I go into the birthing pool as I 'd requested on my birth plan .
8 All over the world , as I had observed on my travels for Panorama and TRI , countries which had long been administered by others were hoisting their own colours ; everywhere the idea of new-born nationhood was in the air .
9 I thereupon asked Howard Samuel whether he would grant to the Labour Party a licence for the extract , as I had discovered from the contract that the quotation rights were vested in the publisher .
10 If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication .
11 I did not see the trophy presented this time as I had to leave before the last race .
12 That , as I had seen from the outside , was shrouded in green plastic , and , as all the windows seemed to have been boarded up , there was scarcely any light at all .
13 But during the weekends I did my best to claim her attention , following her about from room to room as I had done as a small child , and chattering endlessly about life , literature and the events of the previous school-term .
14 I no longer saw them , indeed , as legless beings on self moving pedestals as I had done at Salisbury but from being so constantly restricted in movement it seemed that they must be incapable of movement .
15 I repeated and repeated the twenty-third psalm , as I had done in so many kinds of danger before .
16 In a television programme networked from BBC Scotland called The Disunited Kingdom , I addressed the viewer direct as I had done in my Liberal Party general election broadcast .
17 I sought a subject , as I had done in the past , by looking at my TV screen to see what was going on the world .
18 At the flat there were drinks parties and little dinners every week , which irritated me , as I had to wait for everyone to finish filling the air with their thoughts on the latest novel before I could go to bed on the sofa .
19 As I had to go to Beskett this young woman had not long been married and she always used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey , cos I used to go on a bike not in a van , on a carrier bike , she used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey to see if there were any mail from her husband and he was , there sometimes was sometimes there was n't nothing you know that he 'd written and er one day I 'd got back and er she was all in tears and er he , he had been killed in France and I was glad I did n't have to be the harbinger of the times you know she still lives in Palfrey now Mrs yeah .
20 His quiet reproaches , as I had felt on more than one occasion , were all the more devastating .
21 I admit , you and I did rather live our years together in the shadow of Jean-Claude , as I had lived in the shadow of Montaine .
22 I groped for Toby in the dark and found his hands , and they held on to me , and I shouted again to an unknown listener as I had wanted to in the street : " I do n't want this !
23 It was not as I had expected at all because living in the kind of commune that Mary Finnigan 's house was , there was n't a lot of time for romance .
24 The offending blob had been on the left side of the X-ray as I had looked at it , and I had assumed that it was my left lung that was affected .
25 I found the same classificatory system in use with the same unconscious linguistic divisions being applied as I had learned in the mid-1950s .
26 In October 1940 my last year at school began ; it was going to be a year of hard work , as I had to prepare for the June examinations .
27 I also had high hopes of the Electricity Board , particularly as I had taken to cutting ‘ Miss ’ off my meter reading cards with scissors and it was one of those cards you are n't allowed to cut or mutilate as it upsets the computer .
28 I decided that as I had worked for Harold Wilson and enjoyed his total confidence for several years , there was some duty to try to deter him from the worst mistakes .
29 as long as I 've gone by , or I 'm leaving here by eleven give me a half hour to get home .
30 It was as bad as I 've seen in 60 years . ’
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