Example sentences of "as i [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er actually , er much as I hate to admit it , I think you could be right . |
| 2 | It is not surprise therefore , that I heard the story there and I related it exactly as I remember hearing it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! ) . |
| 6 | I subsequently choked on my tea as I 'd heard it was 250,000 . |
| 7 | The house was just as I 'd left it — just as you 'd left it . |
| 8 | The room was just as I 'd left it , except that it was different . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ That is my assessment of the case , Madame , as I intend to report it to my commandant . ’ |
| 13 | Secondly , adult education as a whole — or continuing education , as I prefer to call it — has an important role . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | And yes , that fireplace gave me as much pleasure always as I had imagined it would on first sight . |
| 17 | The gilded chair by the dressing-table was strewn with clothing , just as I had seen it when I had sometimes taken in her morning tisane . |
| 18 | Our friendship had been noticed , as I had hoped it would be , for I was so proud of having a friend . |
| 19 | I regretted the last statement as soon as I had said it . |
| 20 | This steered them away , as I had meant it to , and they talked for a while longer , then fell silent , enjoying the warmth and the view . |
| 21 | First , internal Cabinet Office files suggest that Mr Attlee 's engine room was not quite as clean a machine as I had portrayed it . |
| 22 | Smith agreed that such a report was needed and indicated that , as I had suggested it , I ought to prepare it . |
| 23 | I knew you were heading for Dublin , knew which hotel , because Donal had made a great point of telling me , and so , when the dinner I was at proved to be as boring and interminable as I had known it would , I left . |
| 24 | I noticed that the front door was open , as I had left it . |
| 25 | But then I thought , Why would they replace the barrier exactly as I had left it ? |
| 26 | The Felder was as I had left it ; I climbed in and put this account in my portable tape-memory . |
| 27 | Everything in Stranraer Gardens was as still as I had left it . |
| 28 | I decided to leave it , to leave it just as it was , as I had remembered it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |