Example sentences of "as i have [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ He flew away just as I 'd nearly got him . ’ |
| 5 | It was about it was the same as I 'd probably got if I 'd have gone to the pit at fourteen . . |
| 6 | As I 'd already discovered that for myself , I started thinking . |
| 7 | The two halves of the heart did not ease apart as I 'd fancifully imagined , but clung desperately round one another like drowning lovers . |
| 8 | Professionally , this is as far as I 'd ever imagined going . |
| 9 | The living room was as pristine as I 'd ever seen it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The floorboards had n't snapped , as I 'd originally thought : they 'd gone down into the dock with Harry . |
| 12 | All of a sudden , I found myself in a festive gathering , as I had absent-mindedly gatecrashed an exhibition launch at the Gallery of Photography . |
| 13 | ( I used the royal ‘ we ’ as I had not asked yet ! ) |
| 14 | A home is a great thing , as I had not courage to say to Mr Robinson , if it is certainly one 's own home , as our little house is . |
| 15 | I enjoyed Richard who was a casual , almost brutal lover , his desire rising and spending itself as impatiently as mine , so that I did not have to suffer all that tedious , preliminary business of fondling and stroking , and I enjoyed my baby , which surprised me as I had not expected to . |
| 16 | He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her , then held both her hands and smiled down at her as I had not seen him smile since I mentioned her name that night in the subway . |
| 17 | This demonstrated that I was not yet a legionnaire as I had not been awarded my white képi , and as such was still an ‘ engagé volontaire ’ or recruit ; it went on to say that I had one month 's service in the Legion , and that I was part of the Squadron commanded by Capitaine Duransoy , in the section of Sergeant Major Barlerin of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment . |
| 18 | This surprised me , as I had not thought of him as someone who would favour me , and in any case I presumed that he would support Willie Whitelaw . |
| 19 | She insisted on having wine with the meal , and as I had n't had a drink in a long time , it made me feel rather tipsy . |
| 20 | ‘ I should n't think he wants to , ’ Perkin remarked as I had n't answered in a rush . |
| 21 | Just as I had n't minded when asked if I would like to take care of Jeffrey Bernard for a few days while he was in Sydney to promote the play about himself , Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell , which is currently playing here . |
| 22 | If they did n't get a move on , I would miss my gig and lose vital cash — as I had n't come in my own car , I was stranded . |
| 23 | As I had n't been invited to that , I had to conclude that I was there to work , wearing my professional hat . |
| 24 | We were taken off for a shower — which was welcome as I had n't washed properly since the night before I left London- and then shown our beds in the barrack rooms on the second and third floors . |
| 25 | It seemed a rather difficult thing to do , somehow , which surprised me , as I had n't realized I still had some atavistic buried fear of him because he was black . |
| 26 | I got up quickly , as I had n't really started to drop off when it went , and ran down to get there before my father . |
| 27 | You know , as I had n't brought the model to show him . |
| 28 | Jenny , as I had already worked out , was a woman of some means and she clearly was n't bothered by the fact she was having to subsidize me . |
| 29 | It was a reworking of the same materials apropos Hungary as I had already seen in Prague apropos Czechoslovakia . |
| 30 | Eventually , he mentioned the present writer and suggested that I should be brought in on the matter as I had already knowledge of one or two other cases . |