Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in a rush as usual but I had to stop . |
| 2 | It looks healthy and comes to the top of the tank , as usual when I walk into the room . |
| 3 | If my deception worked , she 'd still think she was attached to the creance and fly straight to me as usual when I showed her the chick . |
| 4 | They have not affected the determination of the British people to carry on their lives as normal and I do n't see any reason for that to change now . ’ |
| 5 | You know , the number and I mean has n't been able to get round to buying space in the T T G and Travel Weekly until the first two weeks in February cos we were so late in informing him I must had this conversation has taken away the brochure so there 's not a copy here but we 'll try and get hold of some as soon as possible but I mean they 're mainly for Glasgow but had been been up there from R and D y'know and she said that the people up there did n't seem to know the slightest thing about interline how to deal with interline tickets and agency tickets and all that sort of business . |
| 6 | I 'm I 'm interested in making this job last as long as possible but I do n't think I want to go to retirement . |
| 7 | I stayed at home as much as possible while I took massive doses of testosterone , the male hormone . |
| 8 | I expect Sinbad feels that as I 'm in the last few months of my final year , she 'd better pack me with as much experience as possible before I get whisked away to act staff nurse in some ward . |
| 9 | I want to give it a bit of a rest now and I 'm trying to leave it as long as possible before I have it permed again . |
| 10 | ‘ I made a conscious decision to go out as much as possible when I had the baby , ’ she says , ‘ because I knew the walls would close in on me if I did n't . |
| 11 | The democratic base must remain as wide as possible and I commend all these paragraphs to council . |
| 12 | That I support the addition that that we that we should get on with it as quickly as possible and I suppose also that I regret the support that the request for an extra thirty seven thousand or whatever it is pounds in order to enable that to be carried out . |
| 13 | Part of Carvin 's design brief was to keep the controls as simple and as familiar-looking as possible and I think they have succeeded . |
| 14 | That there 's an attempt here to trying to save as many of those jobs as possible and I do n't take the insurances of the gone through the system now , but exactly true you 're saying that it is . |
| 15 | As long as I kept just over 80mph I reckoned that , even in a red Porsche , the traffic police would turn a blind eye . |
| 16 | In ex-army gear I would n't be seen , as long as I kept still , sitting on my hands , pale face buried in a heather clump , but those long heads that rose between rasping bites of coarse grass had twitching noses that never stopped their search for the enemy — a very efficient sort of olfactory radar . |
| 17 | As long as I remain detached from you , I see your actions as aids or obstacles to mine , as means to my ends . |
| 18 | ‘ Now then , as your duly elected leader , let me assure you that I am always working tirelessly on your behalf , and I will continue to do so as long as I remain your duly elected leader . |
| 19 | As long as I had a sympathetic host , of course . |
| 20 | British Aerospace was brilliant , as long as I had , I had a good reason to go away they 'd give me , they said they 'd pay for , I mean one year I did six weeks away paid and then anot another year I did two months non pay and I still kept me job , that 's when I went up the for two months all I was just labour doing it then . |
| 21 | Setback ‘ I do n't mind where I go as long as I get an opportunity with one of their clubs . |
| 22 | As long as I get up in the morning . |
| 23 | I hope so , as long as I get a sleep at night , I do n't care what you 're giving me . |
| 24 | Apparently as long as I get it on a P C disk , five inch |
| 25 | But I know enough about myself to know that as long as I get eight hours sleep I 'm alright ’ . |
| 26 | I do n't care , as long as I get my money . |
| 27 | ah Chris , it does n't matter as long as I get , I just this is there 's nothing on those tapes by the way |
| 28 | As long as I get good erm GCSE 's . |
| 29 | which is why I said to him that yeah he can have a new computer , he can get what he , you know what he wants as long as I get my bedroom done |
| 30 | yes , that 's right , yes or six , six , two , I do n't really care , as long as I get fourteen it does n't really bother me |