Example sentences of "as i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I drank them in , a roar of engines sounded . |
| 2 | As I drank my tea , I heard her answer the phone : ‘ Terrible morning , can I help you ? ’ |
| 3 | But more surprises were in store as I unearthed my first Roman coin . |
| 4 | As I finished my meal an entire flotilla of portly Bavarians waddled out , having consumed vast quantities of beer with their enormous meal . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , I can , ’ he said as I finished my meal and leaned back , wiping my mouth on the back of my hand , more to annoy him that anything else . |
| 6 | ‘ I managed to punch my boilie out to the edge of a gravel bar about 60 yeards out , but I had to play the fish towards the top as I brought it in because there are a lot of boulders on the bottom , ’ explained Lee . |
| 7 | Well , as soon as I realized I stopped . |
| 8 | A shiver ran up my spine and into my scalp , as I realized he was singing ‘ Mary from Dunloe ’ . |
| 9 | As I munched my bun , Richard said ‘ you are involved now ’ . |
| 10 | It will certainly seem so to the Englishman ( as I take him to be ) , who found in the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley — Pound 's most explicit farewell to England , as he prepared to leave her in 1918 — ‘ externality : an externality which , considering what Mauberley attempts , is utterly disabling ’ . |
| 11 | As I take them off I give them names , the names of people and the names of things . |
| 12 | I can get about a bit , I 'm not er hobbling as much , as l as long as I take my time I 'm not too bad . |
| 13 | As I take my seat , Lil rushes in , with an apologetic nod . |
| 14 | The subtitle contains , as I take it , a deliberate ambiguity , for most of the book is concerned with managing in the sense of coping , but in the last chapter Penzias dilates on how technologically based organisations should be run . |
| 15 | If that view is correct , as I take it to be , then the non-use of gas is one area in which the laws-of-war approach on the one hand , and the deterrence approach on the other , may have complemented each other . |
| 16 | I 'm not needed here until this Aldhelm has played his part and pointed the finger at your Tutilo , as I take it you 're certain he will before the night 's out . |
| 17 | If he/she fails to comply promptly , say , ‘ If you do not do as I asked you immediately you will have to sit on the chair in the hall . ’ |
| 18 | Would you had brought Undry to me as I asked you ! |
| 19 | As the PAL:YPE recalls , this impression was based on a combination of physical environment , staff vision , and an existing commitment to an infrastructure including a permanent part-time library assistant : School A I was impressed with , because they too had already started to talk about resource-based learning and they already had as far as I remember … ( now my memory is fairly vague now because it is quite a long time ago ) … but as far as I remember they had a Headmaster , who was extremely interested , very keen indeed , and they had a committee already set up , I think to look into this . |
| 20 | Yes th as I remember they did the other side of first . |
| 21 | And then and of course as far as I remember we , you could hear the noises of the engines of course , terrible , not , not like planes today . |
| 22 | But whatever happens , I will never feel indifferent or hate everybody here , because there were some acceptable , some good performances we did together , but I can already say there were some great performances — at least as I remember them — so it 's a part of my artistic life closely connected to my heart . |
| 23 | Not in any special order but just as I remember them . |
| 24 | I killed a rather good bottle of Fleurie , as I remember it . |
| 25 | ‘ As I remember it , on the occasion when she first accosted us , you told her that she would be better off at home with a baby on her knee . ’ |
| 26 | As I remember it , I directed the jury that a finding of murder by person or persons unknown was indicated , and they so found . |
| 27 | As I remember it was one morning a little while after my father and Miss Kenton had joined the staff , I had been in my pantry , sitting at the table going through my paperwork , when I heard a knock on my door . |
| 28 | Several people turned up , apparently , but only one person agreed to come as I remember it : Alan Chapman , an unposh boy with a big blue scar down his nose . |
| 29 | You may think I am exaggerating but I am telling you the truth as clearly as I remember it and I remember it very clearly . |
| 30 | That 's not quite as I remember it , Melissa thought , but let the inaccuracy pass unchallenged . |