Example sentences of "as i [verb] [adv] [pers pn] " 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 | But as I whirled round I saw that she had already taken off most of her clothes . |
| 4 | Nobody came in , but as I looked round I saw my mother staring past me , her mouth open . |
| 5 | As I looked closer they began to open their wings , and suddenly it was a though purple brooches had been pinned about the bracken to catch the sunlight . |
| 6 | As I looked down I could n't believe I was being asked to attempt it . |
| 7 | As soon as I get indoors I 'll just have to ask again — ask Mum once more . |
| 8 | And as soon as I get up I say you coming ? |
| 9 | As soon as I get home I shall give it him back . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ As soon as I get back we 'll go and eat . |
| 11 | As I set off I had a fleeting glimpse of the leer of pure delight on Simkin 's face . |
| 12 | Erm there 's a sense in which y'know kind of when I go to concerts erm there 's y'know kind of there 's loads of blokes who take their shirts off and er wrestle around together and build human pyramids and do all that kind of , lots of body contact , lots of grasping one-another and all that kind of thing and yet erm y'know presumably to them , on the assumption that they 're heterosexual , as I assume probably they are , it 's it 's one of these things that erm y'know is kind of again maybe it even occurs at the same time as they 're quite homophobic in some cases . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Because as soon as I go upstairs I 'm wide awake . |
| 15 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 16 | As I tottered away I paused and addressed the big man 's back as he prepared for his next victim . |
| 17 | As I strolled along I watched an elasticated black kid , Felix 's age or maybe older , gangle past with his pretty little friend . |
| 18 | A great chance lost , for had I kept as careful a lookout in front as I had behind I should have seen her before she saw me . |
| 19 | It 's arranged that you would eat out or in small parties at the hotel , as I thought maybe you 'd want to get away from each other by then … . |
| 20 | As I eased down I glanced over at the clock ; it read 10.01 . |
| 21 | terms and conditions of engagement and as I said previously they are looking for us to provide them with spreads of expenditure of fees and , and Trevor 's looking into that . |
| 22 | At that time erm , I was a commercial traveller and Harlow was part of my district and they reluctantly accepted the fact that because I was a commercial traveller working in Harlow that I actually did work in Harlow which was stretching a point , but I really think that the Development Corporation 's officials were getting a little tired of my being able to talk their own language and to write letters in the same vein as they could write , they were n't used to this , and , at any rate , as I said earlier we got here . |
| 23 | As I said earlier I 'm getting really pissed with the tight fisted attitued of the board — Shef Utd are becomming more attractive by the minute at least they 've no pretensions of having dosh . |
| 24 | As I said earlier I do not think that this is an area where the district councils should be given a completely free rein to interpret the matter within their own local plans . |
| 25 | as I said earlier I do n't believe anybody should of relied purely on the brochure , they had legal advisers |
| 26 | As I went upstairs I thought how much I hated being shoved around all over the place . |
| 27 | Almost screaming , I staggered back and as I glared wildly I saw Shep disappearing at top speed towards the gate . |
| 28 | As long as I know where it is . |
| 29 | I mean , you know , if I said I was going to an orgy he 'd say , ‘ Oh , all right , as long as I know where you are ’ . |
| 30 | For another thing , the region is one of the edge of things if I may so put it and that 's why I 'm down here I mean as , as I know when we 're up there we 're at the centre of things , but lots of people do n't |