Example sentences of "[adj] as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so relieved to hear this as I had been canoeing many times before and so could remain warm and dry while watching many of the younger cadets freeze to death . |
| 2 | You mentioned erm tumours , in fact you get this as I said the same picture with , with X-rays as you get with magnetic resonance imaging , but what is different about tumours apparently is that the erm relaxation time with which the erm nuclei move erm varies erm according to whether a cell is , is cancerous or not . |
| 3 | I 'll get better at this as I get more practice . |
| 4 | I find I am not as pleased by this as I thought I might be . |
| 5 | I was working on all this as I cycled . |
| 6 | They have n't got one and I 'll s er say this as I 've said everything on the wireless or anything , whatever I 've said I 'll say to their face , and I can slot the num perhaps they ca n't prove everything but you know it 's there . |
| 7 | I 'll tell you this as I sit in the centre of my maze and listen to the clear song of the thrush : the murderous soul I met at Maubisson was one of the most chilling I have ever encountered . |
| 8 | I have always wanted to do this as I love my hair and can do a lot with it . |
| 9 | I feel silently amused at this as I stand there in her doorway . |
| 10 | However , at the tender age of eight I was unaware of all this as I marched from the back gate of Canberra , across a narrow road and into White City for the Borough Primary School Sports . |
| 11 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 12 | But this as I have suggested poses massive theoretical problems , particularly in the attempt at a materialist position which would locate variations within changing social relations . |
| 13 | Yes , but , the the main part of this as I understand the drawing , you 'll have to ask Mr when he comes , but the main part of , of the square , which would n't be the third which is done in the first phase according to the phase that they 're currently proposing . |
| 14 | As I understood er Mr 's position , he would have been on behalf of the Parish Council who are the only er people who are concerned about this as I understand , who raised an objection at this er at this stage they they would have been quite happy with the proposition that I 've put forward on behalf of the County Council . |
| 15 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 16 | The café looked deserted as I approached the front door . |
| 17 | I have a particular affinity with CLIC as I have recently lost two members of my family through cancer , one of them was especially young . |
| 18 | And Hambleton are are being more restrained as I said earlier , is appropriate to our own policy . |
| 19 | I 'm on edge , I 'm nowhere near as calm as I seem ( when I read what I 've written ) . |
| 20 | Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river . |
| 21 | Yet something was clearly wrong as I battled hard to find my rhythm . |
| 22 | I tend to paint very quickly , so the paint is always rather damp as I flit round the paper , putting a colour here and one there , and at first it all looks a bit of a jumble . |
| 23 | Anyway , it was dead quiet and I felt a bit funny as I opened the door- ’ She stopped . |
| 24 | you know , the houses that have just got one wall and a little , or a garage which is higher than just about as high as I think |
| 25 | ‘ So has my mother , though she does not put him as high as I do . ’ |
| 26 | I was not perhaps as gutless as I had assumed . |
| 27 | My smile stays really charming as I stop forward and kick , flat-footed , against the edge of the door . |
| 28 | It is n't as painful as I thought it would be . |
| 29 | The night sky was still fairly light as I walked through the village , passing close to No. 6 Commando positions . |
| 30 | It would be getting light as I arrived . |