Example sentences of "as i [verb] [Wh 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 | Dury , however , is a theatrical voice to be taken rather more seriously , as I discovered when I met him in his current lodgings , adjacent to the Swan Theatre . |
| 4 | But today the prostate operation is routine , as I discovered when I visited the operating theatre a few days after I had had mine . |
| 5 | Many of you may have noticed that Good Housekeeping is now on sale at the checkout in Sainsbury 's , which has gone down brilliantly with shoppers , as I discovered when I visited my local London branch . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I open the window a crack and breathe in the coldness , as I do when I am running in the evenings . |
| 9 | That gave me the same charge as I remembered when I was a little kid and could memorise every record I had , who the publishing company was , how long the song was and what label it was on . |
| 10 | 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 . |