Example sentences of "as i [verb] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as I managed to put them on him — which was n't easy ! — he tore away at his legs like a thing possessed and ripped off most of his lovely white leg feathers in the process . |
| 2 | And then , for the first time ever in my life , I what I normally do is I have sort of maybe some questions that I definitely pre-plan and if I 'm lucky one or two of them , and this paper all three of my prepared questions actually came up exactly as I 'd worded them , or near enough . |
| 3 | The relics were exactly as I 'd left them , inside the hexagram , nothing had changed . |
| 4 | I tend to keep a tight rein at first , and gradually relax as I get to know them . |
| 5 | Punishments — or penalties , as I prefer to call them , because of the association of the word ‘ punishment ’ with physical retribution — show the child what he or she should n't do . |
| 6 | Although the story was my own , the background was very much as I had remembered it , the characters very much as I had remembered them . |
| 7 | My previous relationships have all been with women I 've been able to like and respect at the same time as I 've desired them . ’ |
| 8 | Mm I bet it 's been twisted I 've had experience of things I 've said being in the paper and not coming out as I 've said them . |
| 9 | He told us the rules of the game , just as I 've described them to you . |
| 10 | But I must be disappointed at how few fungi there are yet in the hedges and copses , as I start hallucinating them . |
| 11 | I must early have realized that it was to be a regular correspondence , for I kept her letters , though I usually destroy letters as soon as I have answered them . |
| 12 | On 4 August 1989 solicitors acting on behalf of the relatives wrote to the coroner repeating the facts as I have summarised them and requesting that an inquest be held to inquire whether or not the death had been caused or aggravated by failures of the emergency services to respond to the calls and to attend in proper time . |
| 13 | Let us look now at some problems of this neo-fundamentalism as I have observed them in modern church life . |
| 14 | There are readers whom , as Zuckerman is the first ( or second ) to acknowledge , he can drive to the complaint that he has sex , and family matters , and Jewish matters , on the brain : ‘ I want him to take his manuscript and mail it to his mother ’ , as I have heard them cry . |
| 15 | This material , which I include later in this chapter , reflects the Working Group 's basic assumptions , as I have described them in chapter 2 . |
| 16 | As I have mentioned them , may I just point out that Spratts Peas are delicious with chipped potatoes or an omelette or simply naked from the tin . |
| 17 | All the appellants seek orders that , because of the Secretary of State 's failure to comply with what are said to be the requirements as I have set them out , the decisions made in relation to each of the appellants as to their respective tariffs should be quashed . |
| 18 | The windows were tightly shut , and the rooms smelled stuffy , but not damp , though the drawers of the chest stuck as I tried to pull them open . |