Example sentences of "[adv] as i [vb past] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Soon , clouds spilled over Carn Dearg and it darkened suddenly as I ascended the mountain . |
| 2 | I thought then that , much as I longed to see him , it might be as well to start hoping he would n't come back until I could truthfully tell him there would be no baby . |
| 3 | ’ She told it to them much as I 'd told her myself . |
| 4 | Much as I had enjoyed ‘ my Soviet adventure ’ it was good to be back in an English-speaking land again . |
| 5 | While I was afflicted with serious English composition and English literature , I was reading Scott , Fenimore Cooper , Henty , and the travellers , because I loved them ; I was also thinking and talking in a manner which owed little to those dignified exercises , though the day was to come when I spoke very much as I wrote … |
| 6 | As the Daily Express noted : ‘ Much as I disliked this film and its cheap exploitation of suffering and illness , I must concede that it has been made with the dead-on professionalism that is characteristic of the other ‘ Carry Ons . ’ ’ |
| 7 | Much as I wanted to read the good news on my walk home from the newspaper shop , I was forced to concentrate on my footing on broken and delapidated pavements , strewn with take-away food rubbish , wrappings of all kinds , and collections of weeds , heaps of dog dirt and drinks cans . |
| 8 | But David had always worked by himself , so I had got used to the idea that I would never play with him , much as I wanted to . |
| 9 | This put heart into me , because in all the years that followed I came increasingly to believe that the genuine radicals were neither the ‘ philosophical radicals ’ ( much as I admired J. S. Mill , and have even found good in Bentham ) nor the Fabian radicals , the socialists or social democrats , but the kind of conservative radicals of whom Cobbett was perhaps the earliest example . |
| 10 | ‘ Much as I admired Bob Payton and his unequivocal standards , I had also felt I was in too important a position . |
| 11 | Much as I tried to break in several times , they always caught me and would n't let me in to see the poor people travelling . |
| 12 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 13 | He sat at his desk writing , and I almost groaned aloud as I thought : Oh God , no , not another one ! |
| 14 | During the lead-up to my emergence as a fully-fledged lesbian , I suffered unspeakably as I steered myself through a minefield of heavily internalized Catholic dogma . |
| 15 | It 's gon na take as long as I thought cos I have to format it and install it . |
| 16 | I stayed in the cafe for as long as I felt I could and then went back outside . |
| 17 | Everything went smoothly so long as I lay on my tummy , but when they turned me on to my back I was assailed with a searing pain there . |
| 18 | Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed . |
| 19 | I shall refer briefly to one of the matters touched on by the hon. Gentleman , although I shall not speak on it for as long as I had intended , because the hon. Gentleman made wide-ranging reference to it himself , I congratulate him on that . |
| 20 | So long as I stuck to squawks and Pretty fucking Polly , I was fine ? |
| 21 | I was in no mood to stop them so long as I got my mail . |
| 22 | I guaranteed a starting price so long as I got last refusal — he was auctioning the piece . |
| 23 | ‘ I was personally told he was not concerned about my past so long as I kept up a volume of business , ’ he said . |
| 24 | It is a cruel sport at best , but the poor show the matadors and toreadors made by running for the outer rail and escaping over the fence when the enraged bull pursued them was not a creditable sight ; I spent my time , for as long as I stayed , cheering for the bulls . |
| 25 | She left this house to us , and an allowance to Emily so long as she did n't marry , and one to me so long as I stayed with her . |
| 26 | When we were in port he let me off work and allowed me to go ashore for as long as I wanted : " After all , you 're here to see these places . |
| 27 | It ended : ‘ Nonetheless , I consider myself to have been blessed to have had the chance to so serve for as long as I did . ’ |
| 28 | The calculations I must have performed to decide where the ball was going to be , and to hit it , are staggering , but I managed ( so long as I did not stop to ask how I was doing it ) . |
| 29 | I do n't know why I kept them for as long as I did . |
| 30 | I not only feel it to be the most relevant magazine to the industry I work in — the consumer finance sector — but have also found the appointments section excellent , especially as I secured new employment through it after being made redundant . |