Example sentences of "[adj] as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The café looked deserted as I approached the front door . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And Hambleton are are being more restrained as I said earlier , is appropriate to our own policy . |
| 5 | I 'm on edge , I 'm nowhere near as calm as I seem ( when I read what I 've written ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yet something was clearly wrong as I battled hard to find my rhythm . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Anyway , it was dead quiet and I felt a bit funny as I opened the door- ’ She stopped . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | ‘ So has my mother , though she does not put him as high as I do . ’ |
| 12 | I was not perhaps as gutless as I had assumed . |
| 13 | My smile stays really charming as I stop forward and kick , flat-footed , against the edge of the door . |
| 14 | It is n't as painful as I thought it would be . |
| 15 | The night sky was still fairly light as I walked through the village , passing close to No. 6 Commando positions . |
| 16 | It would be getting light as I arrived . |
| 17 | It became very wet as I carried water to the beasts because there were some very rough days and then it flared out and froze . |
| 18 | I just have to be careful as I pick my way past the grubby piles of snow at the edges of the pavement . |
| 19 | Right , I 'll deal with this one I I 'll deal with this one and be very careful as I say . |
| 20 | I , on the other hand , was free as I had never been before : free of the boring business of examinations to be got through and jobs to be found , I was forming my life into a growing , organic design , normal and beautiful . |
| 21 | As a teenager , Sonique was an athlete for the North London borough of Haringay , after which she tried working nine to five but ‘ I could n't do that and be as free as I wanted ’ . |
| 22 | If my final sentence reassured him in any way he gave no sign , watching dead-faced as I injected 10 cc of Prontosil . |
| 23 | Well the standpipe used to freeze up and er when that occurred the grown men in the house used to light a fire round the standpipes , of course it was cast iron it was n't copper or anything like that , and light a fire to thaw it out , I do n't remember ever being without water but we used , it was a bit primitive but burn newspaper and stuff round the standpipe and er the old as I say we used to , the water for the washing we used to pump into the sink and er fill the old dolly tub with water for the washing and use the rainwater for washing . |
| 24 | I called , got through and spoke to a man who sounded as ordinary and as sane as I thought I was . |
| 25 | Speak proper as I do . |
| 26 | See if you think it 's as peculiar as I do . ’ |
| 27 | Similarly , through Lata 's sister 's marriage to Pran you 're led into the world of politics and the subject of land reform , which sounded dull to me at first but became much more interesting as I got into it . ’ |
| 28 | this frog so interesting as I inspect its most secret |
| 29 | Although this radio programme was broadcast nationally , I found it very interesting as I happened to know the area in question . |
| 30 | I found your motherboard upgrade article most interesting as I have been thinking of upgrading my XT , but I had not bargained for changing the keyboard as I have a 102 key board ( no XT/AT switch ) . |