Example sentences of "as i had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was a reworking of the same materials apropos Hungary as I had already seen in Prague apropos Czechoslovakia . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My conversation with the Ministry seemed to take ages , and , as I had already anticipated , it proved abortive . |
| 6 | As I had already been rock-climbing I decided it was time to take part in the activity which I had been looking forward to , canoeing ! |
| 7 | Again I was astonished , for Syl was hard and red and , as I had just realised , old . |
| 8 | I was allowed to record each group and I found the transcribing of the tapes less arduous as I had also been able to make notes . |
| 9 | Then he began to change his ground , to slip from real remorse into disguised anger , saying that he should never have trapped me into domesticity , meaning , of course , that I should never have trapped him , and , instead of getting angry underneath — as I had earlier when he was being honest with me — I felt an enormous , trembling sympathy with him and begged him to stop : he was n't , after all , responsible for everything . |
| 10 | As I had never actually made a cold application for a job before , I did n't really know what to make of this . |
| 11 | We visited Blackwell 's , such a bookshop as I had never before seen , and Vivien left with armfuls of books , and I , happy with one modest Penguin . |
| 12 | The press were trying to build up a great rivalry between Ben and me , especially as I had never raced him . |
| 13 | If he 'd gone to the crematorium mortuary with Alan , there would have been a blank in my mind , as I had never seen it , and anyway it was thirty miles away . |
| 14 | I , on the other hand , was free as I had never been before : free of the boring business of examinations to be got through and jobs to be found , I was forming my life into a growing , organic design , normal and beautiful . |
| 15 | I had enjoyed Hope and the work we did at night , but I detested working at night , as I had never managed to sleep well during the day . |
| 16 | As I had never climbed in Borrowdale I left the selection to Sid . |
| 17 | As silently as I could , I began to move away , and as soon as I was clear of the trees , began to run as I had never run before . |
| 18 | Then , for five minutes at least , he was still again , and then , when he knew he was talking with God , his arm went around my shoulder and there came up from the depth of his heart such petitions for men as I had never heard be-fore . |
| 19 | I remembered this recently with all these people falling from express trains but did n't think it could be the same on local lines as I had never heard anyone complain before . |
| 20 | I was really deeply moved as I had only seen such a thing before in religious pictures . |
| 21 | This was to be my first climb on ‘ real rock , ’ as I had only experienced exercises on short problems in an old gritstone quarry during the previous winter . |
| 22 | As I had only very limited experience in writing in output terms , the process was exacting and extremely slow progress was made initially . |
| 23 | I took on this franchise 2 years ago and I 've got the same amount of customers now as I had then . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's very important for me to have the same people around me as I did on the first album … it 's a community thing , it means I can keep the same vibe as I had before , ’ he says . |
| 25 | And truly it was no longer , as I had once thought , a matter of a star courting success by adopting the affectations of a prima donna , but of a man who has given himself up to a trance . |
| 26 | A great chance lost , for had I kept as careful a lookout in front as I had behind I should have seen her before she saw me . |
| 27 | I was interested last year to see Tim Jonke 's article and his method of spraying acrylic paint over oil paint , as I had always been led to believe that acrylic would no take on top of oil paint . |
| 28 | I began to feel , as I had always felt with my aunts , that personal affairs were unimportant : we were only sticks in the great river of history that was sweeping us along . |
| 29 | I was interested last year to see Tim Jonke 's article and his method of spraying acrylic paint over oil paint , as I had always been led to believe that acrylic would no take on top of oil paint . |
| 30 | Now that I could be a gentleman , as I had always wished , I was not sure if I wanted to leave my home , which was full of happy memories . |