Example sentences of "as [pers pn] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , as long as I am in this world I remain a sinner , still capable of letting him down . |
| 2 | On a personal note , could you pray for me as I am in the process of getting a job in Saudi Arabia myself and will need all the prayer support I can get . |
| 3 | But really I 'm not as interested in ‘ gay ’ subject matter as I am in work that attacks the ideology of the family . |
| 4 | ‘ If , as I am in no doubt , the inference must be from Mrs. Murray 's affidavit that the Home Secretary is not obliged to accept the judicial view of tariff and may , as I have also said , impose his own view as to this , a prima facie case of irrationality and Wednesbury unreasonableness must surely arise . |
| 5 | said , 86 Cr.App.R. 59 , 82 : ‘ If , as I am in no doubt , the inference must be from Mrs. Murray 's affidavit that the Home Secretary is not obliged to accept the judicial view of tariff and may , as I have also said , impose his own view as to this , a prima facie case of irrationality and Wednesbury unreasonableness must surely arise . |
| 6 | ‘ If , as I am in no doubt , the inference must be from Mrs. Murray 's affidavit that the Home Secretary is not obliged to accept the judicial view of tariff and may , as I have also said , impose his own view as to this , a prima facie case of irrationality and Wednesbury unreasonableness must surely arise . |
| 7 | We were conservative in our working habits , Emily Lightbody and I , as I am in much else . |
| 8 | So she is as interested as I am in our surroundings : china cabinets full of dishes and ornaments inherited from the households of several unknown and long-dead cousins , armchairs with bloated cushions , a piano that no one has played in forty years . |
| 9 | Whilst I saw myself as the hero 's faithful sidekick got up as I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes , two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws , ten gallon hat and waistcoat , Skippy insisted that I be the daughter of the murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled . |
| 10 | I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit . |
| 11 | ‘ He has been seized with his fits three times in the space of seven days , ’ Coleridge wrote to Joseph Cottle on 15 March ; ‘ and just as I was in bed , last night , I was called up again — and from 12 o clock at night to five this morning he remained in one continued state of agoniz 'd Delirium . ’ |
| 12 | He was black , and perhaps as I was in trousers , he thought I might have known Sir Richard Whittington . |
| 13 | Engaged as I was in the struggle with myself , the struggle between my self and my body , other people had no real existence for me . |
| 14 | Whilst I believed their feelings and actions were genuine , I was also aware that they were as steeped as I was in the romance of blindness : the helping hand , God 's purpose for us all . |
| 15 | I found myself wondering , sitting as I was in my own pollution generator , about education . |
| 16 | Inexperienced as I was in counselling , I nevertheless felt it essential that the school should offer itself as a support agency through which parents could find their way into the numerous services provided by the state , by the local authority and by voluntary organisations . |
| 17 | I was not able to go with her , but , as I was in contact with the school 's section XI teacher at the time , I arranged to visit on my own . |
| 18 | For the previous five years I 'd worked solely as a sports photographer , and had really enjoyed it , but my work on the Hoggar Marathon was different , because I was just as interested in the scenery that surrounded me as I was in the race itself . |
| 19 | You may well , for instance , be depending to a large extent on the character of the victim ( as I was in The Murder of the Maharajah ) and the least troublesome way to put that character before the reader is in direct scenes showing the future victim in action . |
| 20 | Uncomfortable as I was in White Face 's company , there was comfort in the sense of arrival . |
| 21 | I wanted to believe you were as interested in me as I was in you , but … ’ |
| 22 | Once again , I 'm stuck , as trapped as I was in that tree — and I do n't think a well-timed lightning bolt from Lil will spring me this time . |
| 23 | However , seeing as I was in Rosslare that day , it amused me to keep an eye out for the car he 'd described . |
| 24 | Sadly much of the animosity generated about Cochrane and Bennett originated from within No 5 Group and a great deal I was able to counter before it reached tap-room levels , I never felt I was running with the fox because I had great feeling and admiration for both these Olympian " gores , in fact , Cochrane invited me to move to No 5 Group with him when he left No 3 Group , but I declined as I was in mid-tour . |
| 25 | As long as I was in the country I was home on a Friday night and them again till Monday morning . |
| 26 | I do n't believe the programme has taken off here as rapidly as it possibly could have had all the judges been as enthusiastic as I was in the beginning , but I would say 5 to 10 per cent of the sentenced people now are at least given that option . |
| 27 | Well , tovarishch , I 've got to get my boiler suit on as I 'm in line for this year 's Mother of Industry washing machine . |
| 28 | And as I 'm in the shop most of the time and know what goes and what does n't , I think you should stick by what I say or get somebody else in who 'll do it better . ’ |
| 29 | I expect Sinbad feels that as I 'm in the last few months of my final year , she 'd better pack me with as much experience as possible before I get whisked away to act staff nurse in some ward . |
| 30 | As I 'm in the room next door to your present patient , you 'll appreciate my difficulty . ’ |