Example sentences of "[adj] as i [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If my final sentence reassured him in any way he gave no sign , watching dead-faced as I injected 10 cc of Prontosil . |
2 | No I 've nothing , any palpitations , nothing , I feel as fit as I did twenty years ago . |
3 | But I know enough about myself to know that as long as I get eight hours sleep I 'm alright ’ . |
4 | Both places had latches and as long as I got ten yards ' start on him , I could slam the door shut and slip my half clothes-peg under the latch — I always carried a half clothes-peg for the purpose — and no matter how much he blasphemed and kicked at the door he could n't get in . |
5 | ‘ As long as I drink some Lucozade straight away , then I 'm OK . |
6 | Yes , I mean , I think as far as I remember last spring was a good one was n't it ? |
7 | By mid — 1943 it was made very clear to the Main Force Groups that their " selection " was unacceptable as I sent more crews back than we kept . |
8 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |