Example sentences of "as i [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a truth which I can never now forget as I go about a world in which human beings apparently have themselves under control . |
| 2 | ‘ As soon as I heard about you , I promised myself I 'd make sure you retired early from the orchestra pit . |
| 3 | As I thought about that perceptive question I realised its implications . |
| 4 | As I thought about it it seemed extraordinary that any man should endure such behaviour and still wish to marry the object of his desire . |
| 5 | Elegance was not a concept I associated with myself , nor with nuns , but as I thought about it I realised that Lili was right . |
| 6 | And as I thought about their meaning , the tears slowed down until they stopped . |
| 7 | And increasingly , as I thought about it , that planet seemed the best idea . |
| 8 | And , as soon as I realised that , as soon as I thought about his breakdown , I started to worry , I started to see just how unstable he still was . |
| 9 | And , as I thought about that , another image came into my mind . |
| 10 | As I thought about it , the notion took its own shape , blossoming , as it were , and escalating into what I finally conceived as my cousin 's nemesis . |
| 11 | So I 'm not creeping back for my job but anything erm it 's not that and erm But the lads in the lodge sometimes you 've got to and er I 've got a bit of er well a speery voice you know rough so sometimes I get a little bit of control on them and erm also as I said about these chaps that are working , erm we 're not blind , we know what 's happening and we 've got sympathy even with them . |
| 12 | I did then go about the task Mr Farraday had set me with some dedication ; I spent many hours working on the staff plan , and at least as many hours again thinking about it as I went about other duties or as I lay awake after retiring . |
| 13 | Sorry as much as I know about Kelly is he is an Irish U21 international I think he played in Dublin in friendly against Shelbourne about 2 years ago and looked quite OK . |
| 14 | Conservation and pollution were important topics as I learnt about saving energy in the home and the environment . |
| 15 | His words were prophetic , for as I write about it now I realize that it has never been repeated in the thirty-five years that have passed since then . |
| 16 | I played outside , running around in a pair of shorts and — I imagine-quite happy to have the whole pregnancy thing going on because it gave me more freedom to do as I liked about the house and garden , free from my father 's supervision . |
| 17 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 18 | ‘ I have never felt about any woman as I feel about you . |
| 19 | I feel this profoundly as I wander about the empty railway station , where I have no business of any kind . |
| 20 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 21 | I wondered if he felt as strongly about me as I did about him . |
| 22 | I had one friend from another house who felt the same way as I did about the school and the whole process we were being put through . |
| 23 | " I know you do n't feel about me as I do about you , but that does n't matter . " |
| 24 | " I could never feel about you as I do about Horatia . |
| 25 | It 's just that I would n't consider it was right … fair … feeling as I do about … about another man . ’ |
| 26 | And maybe you need to be thirtysomething yourself to feel as I do about these people . |
| 27 | He thinks the same way as I do about our work . |
| 28 | Er as I think about all of us today , it seems to me that the , that that which endures is human relationships . |
| 29 | As I speculate about Claudia having sex with a Masai warrior , I wonder if Fairfax was troubled by these thoughts . |
| 30 | Personally , I am hoping the trip will also provide me with an insight into relief and development work as I pray about my future . |