Example sentences of "as i [vb base] [adv] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll ask no leading questions , as I remember how I loathed them when I first started seeing a lot of Tom . |
| 3 | As soon as I get indoors I 'll just have to ask again — ask Mum once more . |
| 4 | And as soon as I get up I say you coming ? |
| 5 | As soon as I get home I shall give it him back . ’ |
| 6 | As I set off I had a fleeting glimpse of the leer of pure delight on Simkin 's face . |
| 7 | So , as I go round I 'll show you erm , how to use the mouse er a as as and when it becomes er appropriate . |
| 8 | Because as soon as I go upstairs I 'm wide awake . |
| 9 | And as I walk past I want you to turn them over so I can see if they are clean on both sides . ’ |
| 10 | The quickening of awareness in pleasure and the shrinking from it in pain are spontaneous , as I discover whenever I suffer , or deliberately resist a temptation , or try to enjoy some cultivated entertainment which bores me . |
| 11 | Whether the Council I , I personally would be quite keen to go down there and see A , and we 'd need permission of the land owners , to do this , to see where the link could go across , you know , the best position , so that we , and I believe this is what Councillor is saying , so that we can actually come forward and maybe this ought to be a meeting with the Amenities Committee , maybe the Ramblers and bear in mind as I say again I hate to do these things and the land owner think we 're steamrollering 'em into something without their knowledge . |
| 12 | As I drift off I have the start of the running-through-the-woods dream again but I get away from it and do n't remember anything else . |
| 13 | In short , whereas there is not the possibility of using an argument from analogy to answer factual questions about time on the Sun , there is the possibility when it comes to people 's feelings , and so , being predisposed by the second reason to think that there is some sort of connection between moaning and the pain-language , we naturally fall into the trap of confusing valid fact-establishing arguments from analogy with invalid meaning-establishing ones , and produce the well-known argument that I am , in general , justified in applying ‘ mental ’ language to other people by the fact that they behave as I do when I 'm in a certain state of mind . |
| 14 | I open the window a crack and breathe in the coldness , as I do when I am running in the evenings . |
| 15 | exactly , it 's the only way you can do it and I would n't do it any other way , because I do n't bel I do n't , I do n't think it 's fair , if I was using the phone continually I 'd get rather annoyed , I mean that I 'd , they 'd have a right to be annoyed , but as I do n't I think it 's ridiculous so I 'm not hardly surprised at all , so I think it 's stupid as you say , but there you go . |
| 16 | As I move round I see the numerals of a digital clock . |
| 17 | I began ‘ Great Expectations ’ with a very negative view towards it but as I read on I began to really enjoy it . |
| 18 | I stand gasping for breath , as I realise where I am : stuck on a strip of concrete railway within a pair of electric rails , twenty feet above the ground . |