Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] as i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could hear voices somewhere as I looked around , studying the portraits , examining the marquetry of the chairs and tables , all of which were ranged formally about the walls . |
| 2 | I prefer to leave pictures just as I finish them in front of the subject . |
| 3 | I , the armchair observer , lament the cessation of the old skills and crafts just as I deplore the desecration of the open fields by more and more bypasses , pylons , wires , bungalows , concrete , traffic and litter . |
| 4 | The ice occasionally shears away as I put my weight on it . |
| 5 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 6 | I suppose that many of you will have heard about my motoring experience a few weeks ago as I was travelling from Winfrith to Harwell . |
| 7 | It was as if he was dropping a hint or letting slip a little clue thinking that one day someone would read his diaries just as I was doing . ’ |
| 8 | I have been constantly told what a fine man he was and I regret not being able to experience and appreciate his qualities first-hand as I have grown from a child to an adult . |
| 9 | ‘ I said I overheard you and Tucker and also picked things up as I went along . |
| 10 | I took on this franchise 2 years ago and I 've got the same amount of customers now as I had then . |
| 11 | I said it will be nice company and so she said er , you sit near the window , I 've seen it lots of times before as I only live in Manchester so she t well the two of us went together . |
| 12 | As I unravelled the yarn , I wound it loosely around a single bed headboard , knitting the ends together as I went along . |
| 13 | If I get married I will definitely give prostitutes up as I take marriage seriously and think it would be very insulting to a woman . |
| 14 | Public relations well as I 've already outlined there the actual fiasco surrounding the proposed er share repurchase there was a public relations nightmare form beginning to end . |
| 15 | At Reading road in Shiplake , the A four one five five , there are some temporary traffic lights there holding er the , your journey up this evening , for road realignment work and er there are some delays there as I say at the moment . |
| 16 | I had no intention then , or ever after , of joining any group or ‘ movement ’ and I therefore sidestepped the Vorticists just as I sidestepped both the Imagists and the Amygists . |
| 17 | There are some bad things , as I have said , and it can be dangerous at times too as I discovered only recently . |
| 18 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |