Example sentences of "even as i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as I mocked myself I was stepping towards her . |
| 2 | I have seen at long last that I need to be free of my beloved mistress and even as I write that word it is hollow for how can I love one who no longer has the least regard for me ? |
| 3 | Mr Dobbs said : ‘ As far as I am aware the BBC want to do the sequel , and even as I speak they are discussing potential script writers . ’ |
| 4 | Even as I write I can hear Imran Khan sighing all the way from Lahore . |
| 5 | It is boring to have to say that ( it actually makes me twitch even as I do ! ) , but it is no good pretending that it works in any other way , because it simply does n't . |
| 6 | Then , even as I talked I began to see , for almost the first time , some of the negative factors that I had suppressed or disregarded . |
| 7 | And there you are importunate even as I am . |
| 8 | Even as I watched him , his neck went rigid . |
| 9 | Professor Stephen Hawking must be making a beeline to Washburn HQ even as I write ! |
| 10 | I 'm donning the sackcloth even as I write … |
| 11 | Even as I was recording my triumphs over a hostile and alien world , I was also expressing such sentiments as , ‘ Oh , it 's not even worth writing down — the same , usual , dismal , tedious , boring story . ’ |
| 12 | I know it sounds crazy , but even as I watched this little boy , Jimbo , I thought I could actually see a muscle quiver . |
| 13 | A wind was getting up , and even as I stood there , the lower stars were obscured by drifting darkness . |
| 14 | But even as I turned , I heard something . |
| 15 | Even as I snatch for weapons , whip-tendrils seize my wrists and my neck . |
| 16 | Sir , — If Asil Nadir was a Labour supporting council home dweller , standing accused of defrauding the DSS of £100 , no doubt Peter Lilley would , even as I write , be leading an SAS scratch squad to being him back to justice.DAVID MITCHELL , Woodstock , Pettaugh . |
| 17 | Yet even as I remember Victoria , I feel keenly the unsettled state of my mind . |
| 18 | Yet even as I think it , I know it to be a ridiculous thought . |
| 19 | Even as I am recounting the edited version , it occurs to me that Fairfax has probably been doing the same thing . |
| 20 | Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me . |
| 21 | Even as I put my talons down I pulled them away , for I sensed something was wrong , but it was quicker than I and with a loud metal sound like the closing of a cage gate it sprang shut . |
| 22 | I 'm thinking there might be something wrong with my plan to wait as I close my eyes ( only to rest them ) , but even as I yawn and put my hands into my armpits I think a spot of rest is n't such a bad idea so long as I do n't fall asleep . |
| 23 | Even as I shouted I sensed the utter absurdity of my words and the ludicrous figure I presented , a slovenly , plump young man , so obviously clumsy and ineffectual , rabbit 's ears of shirt-tail escaping from my waistband . |
| 24 | It was meant to be a jocular observation but even as I said it I knew that I had transgressed some important Gyggle taboo . |
| 25 | Even as I try to follow the interweaving , the world of childhood reasserts itself and Leeds and Yorkshire become again the centre of existence . |
| 26 | Then even as I was grinding its neck into the gravel it was trying to peck my heel . |
| 27 | Even as I spoke , we were reduced to just about no light at all . |
| 28 | Even as I wrote the final corrections to the first edition of this text in January 1973 , a splendid , though destructive new tear had Opened across the island of Heimaey , south of Iceland , and new oceanic crust was being formed . |
| 29 | Even as I say it I know this is not how I wish to spend the rest of the day . |
| 30 | Even as I stared , the violated carcase changed into the glossy pink china of my sister 's doll , shattered on the floor into jigsaw pieces , stuffed with raw meat . |