Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [adv] as i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were mine — I knew that as soon as I set eyes on you . |
| 2 | I 'm very sorry that as soon as I have finished this welcome this morning that I have got to leave you , and I am very sorry that I shall not be able to return this evening for your dinner which I would originally look forward very much to but I trust that you will enjoy the company of the Chairman of our Environmental Services Committee , Councillor Robin Draga , who is attending on my behalf . |
| 3 | erm because erm completely irrelevant and as soon as I go away from it er erm you know there 's times when it 's quite confusing really . |
| 4 | ‘ Give me your number , and as soon as I know the score I 'll ring you back . |
| 5 | Before we reach the pub he has asked about Rachel , and as soon as I bring his whisky and soda to the table he asks about her again . |
| 6 | And the fact that are four per cent cheaper than us and as soon as I mention and increase he says , well if it 's dual source we 've been told to look at the cheapest source of supply as single source . |
| 7 | And as soon as I get up I say you coming ? |
| 8 | And as soon as I read the name I see her standing there in the witness box , self-contained , precise , unknowable . |
| 9 | ‘ Gould has just issued a prospectus and as soon as I have one I will send it to you , announcing a work on English birds … his conceit leads him beyond common sense. , |
| 10 | But as soon as I set eyes on you all rational thought deserted me . |
| 11 | They 've been driving me mad ever since I moved in , but as soon as I come out with a gun they all disappear . |
| 12 | At first the belts slip round the flat pulleys — they 're meant to — but as soon as I squirt the gum they grab and the shafts pick up speed real fast , and the spokes on the pulleys blur and disappear . |
| 13 | All I want is some friends , but as soon as I get some real good friends they go off and leave me . |
| 14 | But as soon as I get into bed and shut my eyes , this racket starts up . |
| 15 | I 've got to go on an errand this mornin' , but as soon as I get back , I 'll … well , I 'll do the rounds and I 'll come along an' tell you . |
| 16 | I 'd be alright as long as I could go on a route where all I had to do was turn left but as soon as I turn right |
| 17 | I actually take possession in about a month , but as soon as I 've found a flat I 'm going to start working there part-time to learn the ropes . |
| 18 | you make your sound and you carry on and on and on , I 'm gon na keep on taping different people 's make their sound and then we 're gon na see what it feels like you 're in hospital , okay , now it does n't matter if somebody 's got the same sound as somebody else , it 's no big deal , alright , because eventually they 'll all blend into each other , but as soon as I 've tapped you , make your sound , alright patients , come on where 's the machines ? okay , stop , now when did it start becoming out of hand ? , at one stage we did n't really know where we were to , once , once I say ten people , okay , and that was also due to the fact that we had perhaps too many erm patients moaning , alright , it was good in one respect because why , it made obvious that we were in a , a hospital well something like , but erm when you 're in smaller groups and you 're making your sound machines , obviously it 's much easier to control and to make the overall sound more realistic , do n't you think ? , so , mm , what we 're going to do is we 're going to get into different groups , into groups of four , five , no big deal , you 're welcome to only if you want to , and , you 're going to , each group is going to choose er a profession , okay , you can be brick layers , you can be er musicians , er you can be er gardener , I mean absolutely you can be factory workers , you can be absolutely anything , and what you 're going to do is you 're going to choose , each person will choose a sound which is represented of that particular person , er profession , okay , and you 'll going to make your sounds simultaneously so that as for the audience who are simply listening to you can just close our eyes cos we wo n't , you wo n't be acting you 'll be making these sounds and using , we 'll close our eyes and we 'll know exactly where we are , okay , and then after that once we 've done that just , before you choose your profession to know what this is going to lead onto , after that we 're going to put movements to that profession , so when , if you were in a factory going er putting bottles on , on top top of bottles , you would have the movements going and you would have the sound going and I want you to build up , up , the sound machine which becomes the movement machine as well , so you 're almost robotic so you , shh , shh , or whatever , however your sound , and each person does their thing in the factory or where ever they are and we will be able to see from listening and looking at the movements and obviously remember just because you 're not an example it does n't mean you ca n't talk , there might be for instance there would be a doctor going stand back , stand back , you know , er , in , in the you can use voices , but also obviously very , very effective to have sound voices , shh , shh , to create that part of it , have instruments , but this is how they actually started lay down sound tracks for movies , people specialize |
| 19 | But as soon as I say ‘ I enjoy/like/desire ’ , even ‘ I want ’ spoken with a certain stress , something new enters ; I convey the further information that with awakening awareness I am stirred to approach , and as I approach awareness quickens . |
| 20 | I 've sat at home with relations , preparing to watch the show with them , and they 'll sit through the opening music in respectful silence , but as soon as I start to speak , so do they . |
| 21 | But as soon as I begin to be nice to him , a sort of self-satisfaction seems to creep into his voice and his manner ( very discreet , he 's been humility itself all day , no reproach about last night , of course ) and I begin to want to goad and slap him again . |
| 22 | ‘ But that 's absurd really , because as soon as I 've … made love to anyone before — and it has n't been that often — I 've lost most of the feeling that led me there straight away , if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 23 | Because as soon as I go upstairs I 'm wide awake . |