Example sentences of "as i [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One feels that two hours spent in one or other of the jammed little rooms — there are four as far as I remember at this instance , two down , one up , and one in the cellar — will be rewarding , refreshing , and never questioned by the owners . |
| 2 | As I looked at this mounting pile of equipment I thought that there was no way this was going to fit into the spare bedroom . |
| 3 | Within days it was obvious that the extent of the dissolution was every bit as great as I had at first suspected . |
| 4 | Or was the fact of their friendship with Gideon just an unwelcome coincidence , as I had at first supposed . |
| 5 | The earth never quite moved for me in the Dante Sonata as I thought at one stage it might . |
| 6 | As I sit at this word processor , the chips of which may have been assembled by a young woman in the Philippines for a pittance a day and for such long hours that her eyes will be damaged in a tax haven created specially for foreign companies , I am acutely aware of the link between the health of the people of the Philippines and my life here in Britain . |
| 7 | Well but I mean that 's an example and as I say at this end where you 've no arousal you 're either asleep or dead , there 's no sort of performance performance of any sort and we talk about having those butterflies in the stomach do n't we ? |
| 8 | ‘ If they 're easy trousers , I can do maybe 30 pairs a day , as long as I start at eight in the morning and finish at eight at night . |
| 9 | I never wanted my Mum so much in my life as I did at that moment . |
| 10 | As I discuss at greater length in Chapter 10 , your first visits should just be a matter of getting to know the site , by wandering around . |