Example sentences of "as [adv] as i [vb base] the " in BNC.
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1 | I will write again as soon as I know the opinion of the Parish Council . |
2 | ‘ Give me your number , and as soon as I know the score I 'll ring you back . |
3 | ‘ Carolyn , I 'll go and look at him as soon as I shut the door on you . |
4 | ‘ Of course , just as soon as I get the results from this test . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | by then I may have sold the house and , I mean , as soon as I sell the house |
7 | Despair overtakes me as soon as I see the dreaded trolleys jammed together ; I always manage to pick one with a crab-like action ; my heart sinks and culinary amnesia sets in somewhere between the tinned fruit and dried pasta . |
8 | It did n't matter — as soon as I read the word alchemy , alarm bells began ringing in the fire station of my mind . |
9 | And as soon as I read the name I see her standing there in the witness box , self-contained , precise , unknowable . |
10 | I have slept in a full set of thermal underwear , but the cold gets to me as soon as I leave the bag . |
11 | Then say to the audience ‘ What I would like you to do as soon as I leave the room is to turn over the card on the top of this pile and look at it . ’ |