Example sentences of "as i [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Twenty-three years in the business has all been the build-up for this , as I take on my most challenging role ever — bloody prompter ! ’
2 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 .
3 Well , in the first round we shot a 74 , two over par as I remember then .
4 ‘ I 'll ask no leading questions , as I remember how I loathed them when I first started seeing a lot of Tom .
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 And as I get nearer , the veil dissolves .
8 As soon as I get indoors I 'll just have to ask again — ask Mum once more .
9 As long as I get up in the morning .
10 th than first thing in the morning erm whereas I , I think probably I am probably better as soon as I get up than last thing at night .
11 And as soon as I get up I say you coming ?
12 ‘ I will be , soon as I get out of this place .
13 As I get out of the second tube I see someone has been scratching letters off the sign above the door .
14 As soon as I get out of the Army .
15 As soon as I get home I shall give it him back . ’
16 ‘ I 'll telephone him as soon as I get home , ’ Rachel said under her breath , and slid into the car .
17 I 'll arrange for the carriers to come down as soon as I get back .
18 I 've got to go on an errand this mornin' , but as soon as I get back , I 'll … well , I 'll do the rounds and I 'll come along an' tell you .
19 ‘ As soon as I get back we 'll go and eat .
20 We 're getting engaged as soon as I get back to England . ’
21 But if we have everything ready to leave as soon as I get back from chess and I 'll make sure I leave promptly if we can come straight away then , with a bit of luck we 'll be on to the M twenty five b by half past four so we might
22 It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them .
23 As I set out on that Christmas afternoon , I planned to learn as I went along .
24 I would allow the appeal and give the directions as I set out in my judgment .
25 But it passed , quicker than any marsh fever , as I set out on my journey to Berlin — and was replaced by emotion , by the accession of innumerable sensitivities , not without their pivotal elements of pain .
26 ‘ See you later , Boyo , ’ he shouted after me as I set off , rifle over my shoulder , through the trees in the direction of Brigade H.Q
27 ‘ Watch out ! ’ you yelled as I set off on holiday .
28 As I set off I had a fleeting glimpse of the leer of pure delight on Simkin 's face .
29 ‘ I 'll never moan about hard work again , Jacko , ’ I lied as I set off to make a packed audience laugh like drains , with a face the colour of one and stomach that sounded like one .
30 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 .
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