Example sentences of "as i have [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening .
2 Within days it was obvious that the extent of the dissolution was every bit as great as I had at first suspected .
3 Or was the fact of their friendship with Gideon just an unwelcome coincidence , as I had at first supposed .
4 I read , just as I had at the Moroneys , yet with the single difference in this case there was a young man , Aoin O'Heiher , a nephew of Liam O'Flaherty and he introduced me to writers like Eliot and Joyce .
5 I hoped I could , as I had to .
6 ‘ On the Friday night I had stayed up to watch the late film , and at 3.30am I decided that it was n't worthwhile going to bed as I had to be at John 's house at seven o'clock .
7 Going through her diary , as I had to , seemed somehow — obscene .
8 I found it interesting to take one person , say the rector , Charles Henstock , and make him the chief character in one book and follow his fortunes , as I had in the first book about the great Mrs Curdle .
9 And I have to confess that I found you as delightful then as I had in Wexford , and was intending to find out where you were going , and pursue the acquaintanceship .
10 Erm well as I 've as I 've in my submission I I think we can give qualified support for the proposal that erm Harrogate have put on the table .
11 I believe that no woman will ever again suffer as much as I have through rank discrimination in the police force . "
12 I have made lots of lasting friendships along my Guiding road as I have through Medau and think myself lucky .
13 Why , she thought , he is so much more uncertain than I am , he has lost touch with the world of women , as I have with the world of men .
14 I shall also attempt with Dorothy Heathcote , as I have with the other pioneers , to point to innovations or assumptions which are implicit in her work and which she herself may not have articulated .
15 I have covered the whole year , but because January is in your shops , February already subscribed , March imminent and April only recently covered in my monthly column ( 11th December ) , I have not been as detailed with these four months as I have with the rest of the year .
16 The board has the same switches on it as I have on the rack , so if Bryan presses the board they light up for me too , so I can see what he 's got on .
17 Do you think I should have lived as long as I have on meat ? ’
18 I wonder if I will get away with things as easily as I have on other serious falls and I wonder what it will feel like at the bottom .
19 ‘ I 've never eaten as well as I have on this trip . ’
20 I do n't know how to put into words the very great depth of gratitude that I owe for his patience , for his advice , and for his friendship , but most of all the love and respect that I , as I have for him .
21 ‘ You do n't stay in the business as long as I have without learning a little bit about people .
22 ‘ I understand you want to pop round and see me , but can you tell me what it 's about as I have to be at work on time ? ’
23 you to do is er give me his telephone number so that I er contact him , offer the same service to him as I have to you .
24 As I have to be in London for the entire week of the General Election , I applied to Darlington Town Hall for a postal vote .
25 To speak as I have of meteorite ‘ concentrations ’ may conjure the wrong image .
26 There are now so few to be fished for in most rivers that more and more people who spent a lot of money in Scotland , as I have over the years , are going to Russia , Iceland , Alaska , Canada and Norway .
27 Yes but when you 've been , when you 've been in the work as I have over many years with doctors , I was a mental welfare officer so I mean I know er , you know , you can be fobbed off .
28 I HAVE never been as sickened by any criminal as much as I have by Nicholas Vernage , who murdered Sergeant Alan King .
29 When his appointment as Secretary of State for Wales was announced , he told the House : ’ I look forward to explaining in Wales , as I have in England the way in which the community charge is a much fairer and simpler system ’ .
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