Example sentences of "as i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got very depressed — there was no particular reason , just a lowering of spirits as I realized again that , for the foreseeable future , we were going nowhere . |
| 2 | He was a schoolboy at heart — as I realized later in life . |
| 3 | Imprinting , as I remarked earlier , illustrates the principle of ‘ sensitive periods ’ ; it is usually established during a specific period early in the animal 's life . |
| 4 | Well , in the first round we shot a 74 , two over par as I remember then . |
| 5 | As soon as I charge straight into here , what happen with it ? |
| 6 | The explanations are various and , as I argue shortly , rather limited . |
| 7 | As I looked sadly at my hands and boots , I remembered that I was only a common working boy , and wished I could be different . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As I looked closely , I could see it was a skull . |
| 10 | But none of this disturbed my mind or my body as I looked across at the girl in the coffee bar . |
| 11 | I must have made thousands over those university years , much to the annoyance of my own family , as I 'd rarely made the effort for them . |
| 12 | It was obvious from the moment she came into the house that Dawn , as I 'd immediately christened her ( after all , I 'd had three weeks to dream up the name ) , was a real character . |
| 13 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 14 | ‘ He flew away just as I 'd nearly got him . ’ |
| 15 | It was about it was the same as I 'd probably got if I 'd have gone to the pit at fourteen . . |
| 16 | As I 'd already discovered that for myself , I started thinking . |
| 17 | The two halves of the heart did not ease apart as I 'd fancifully imagined , but clung desperately round one another like drowning lovers . |
| 18 | Professionally , this is as far as I 'd ever imagined going . |
| 19 | The living room was as pristine as I 'd ever seen it . |
| 20 | Dusk deepened until I could no longer see ten yards ahead , and after I 'd knocked the shaft of the arrow against an unseen hazard twice within a minute I stopped and sank slowly down to my knees , resting my forehead and the front of my left shoulder against a young birch trunk , drained as I 'd never been before . |
| 21 | The floorboards had n't snapped , as I 'd originally thought : they 'd gone down into the dock with Harry . |
| 22 | And as I get nearer , the veil dissolves . |
| 23 | As soon as I get indoors I 'll just have to ask again — ask Mum once more . |
| 24 | As soon as I get home I shall give it him back . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll telephone him as soon as I get home , ’ Rachel said under her breath , and slid into the car . |
| 26 | I remember thinking something unprintable as I flew through the air and remember wishing I 'd worn a body protector as I landed very hard . |
| 27 | There was no one around in the hall to see me as I stepped inside . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | People 's faces swung sideways as I tunnelled backwards into my cab . |
| 30 | ‘ And as I intimated just a moment ago , ’ his voice was coldly mocking as he threw her words back at her , ‘ I need a haircut . ’ |