Example sentences of "as i [vb base] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As nasty a thing as I 've looked at for many a day ’ , says one of the characters in Trollope 's Vicar of Bullhampton of the local Nonconformist chapel . |
| 2 | Well erm it 's a combination of both those factors er as I 've mentioned at the outset the development programme has moved ahead a little more slowly than we would wish , the main reasons for this were associated firstly with the delay in selecting equipment er and that took longer than our contractor ha had imagined . |
| 3 | As I have argued at length elsewhere , retirement is both the leading form of age discrimination and the driving force behind the wider development of ageism in modern societies . |
| 4 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 5 | The possibility of reason-giving , of being capable of the awareness that one 's life was one way , that it is now different , and that futility is the result , involves , as I have contended at length , the possibility of language . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , then , ’ he went on , ‘ much as I enjoy looking at the top of your head , I did ask a question . |