Example sentences of "as i [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er actually , er much as I hate to admit it , I think you could be right . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is not surprise therefore , that I heard the story there and I related it exactly as I remember hearing it . |
| 4 | Well , I do not fish for medals , I fish for pleasure , and while my mates like to net my fish as I like to net theirs , I care very little about petty-minded , selfish ‘ rules ’ . |
| 5 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 6 | I was quite impressed by this and since he was going back to England that evening I decided to go back as soon as I 'd seen him off . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I thought that as I 'd involved you all , to some extent , in the enquiries that were launched yesterday , I ought to inform you of the results of our search for the boy , Gerry Boden … ’ |
| 9 | And as soon as I 'd said it I realised how odd it was , Kelly without a cigarette , without fiddling with the packet and dropping matches on the floor . |
| 10 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
| 11 | I subsequently choked on my tea as I 'd heard it was 250,000 . |
| 12 | ’ She told it to them much as I 'd told her myself . |
| 13 | The relics were exactly as I 'd left them , inside the hexagram , nothing had changed . |
| 14 | The house was just as I 'd left it — just as you 'd left it . |
| 15 | The room was just as I 'd left it , except that it was different . |
| 16 | At the Rabbit Grounds , everything was as I 'd left it — the buck lying strangled in the broken catapult , the sand kicked up and messed where I 'd gone crashing . |
| 17 | Some of them turned out to be not as indifferent to my plight as I 'd feared they all would be , and a few murmured that if I did really feel strongly about the way I had been treated , I should indeed take the matter up with the Senate . |
| 18 | Even I had come to realise we were n't as compatible as I 'd thought we were . |
| 19 | I bet myself that was Sorley 's , as I 'd had him pegged as the Boy Racer type and I was glad the insurance companies were uprating them . |
| 20 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 21 | I tend to keep a tight rein at first , and gradually relax as I get to know them . |
| 22 | I need to know the wiring for the Nato socket as I intend to use it for towing my caravan , but will need to alter the wiring to suit or obtain another Nato plug and add the 12n/12s plugs to this . |
| 23 | ‘ That is my assessment of the case , Madame , as I intend to report it to my commandant . ’ |
| 24 | I thought then that , much as I longed to see him , it might be as well to start hoping he would n't come back until I could truthfully tell him there would be no baby . |
| 25 | ‘ The lad , as you call him , ’ she said , still reading , ‘ or the Mad Irish Git as I prefer to call him , is in my flat nursing a Full Metal Hangover . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Secondly , adult education as a whole — or continuing education , as I prefer to call it — has an important role . |
| 28 | We also need status in our own eyes , as well as in the eyes of others ; status , as I wish to use it here , includes self-esteem as well as reputation . |
| 29 | Which is why , for this On the Rock , I climbed Eastern Terrace alone in the rain , and with every bright flower glowing out through the dismal weather in that majestic place , as I struggled to identify it , in my memory Evan was there behind me , as he always will be now , nodding with that peculiar wise grace of his , smiling , showing the way , ‘ … as when our days were a joy , and our paths through flowers . ’ |
| 30 | I suppose I was surprised , maybe even a bit shocked , as I had assumed we would be spending the holiday together , laughing and drinking . |