Example sentences of "[noun prp] as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 2 | ‘ We must be nearly in range by now , ’ I said to Jean as I turned back to channel 20 . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel sometimes that I ca n't reach Faustina as I 've reached other cats . |
| 4 | Yes erm now on erm Tuesday as I say we 've got five open races actually Peter , five open races on Tuesday , but erm one of the best erm things that happened to us is that the Pall Mall which is the biggest event erm in erm March , erm that 's being sponsored now by one of the track bookmakers called Max Thomas and the best thing about it is that erm he is erm putting in so much prize money with the major the supporting opens on our gala night , that erm there 's not a race worth in the open race , there 's not worth less than two hundred and erm there 's three races worth five hundred pounds each to the winner and the big race is worth five thousand so that 's an early erm plug for to keep in your diary , like the Pall Mall which is March the twenty third . |
| 5 | It was a reworking of the same materials apropos Hungary as I had already seen in Prague apropos Czechoslovakia . |
| 6 | Now I 've learned , I 've been since Saturday as I told you and I 've , I 've learned how to make a good question . |
| 7 | ‘ If you loved Ruth I would n't have been able to — I would n't have looked after Ruth as I have . ’ |
| 8 | It describes the situation in Scotland as I see it and contains nothing confidential ! ’ |
| 9 | On Tuesday the eighth of February as I understand it that meeting then will report to a Council meeting of the Council , so I would not wish to put forward the suggested resolutions that are on the order paper , er I think I would want to suggest to you ladies and gentlemen for decisions today to whether you wish or not and then I would suggest that the appropriate decision is to await the of the City additional Council and therefore bring this matter forward to our Committee on March the twenty ninth . |
| 10 | Fairclough as I think I 've maintained all along is probably better in midfield/ the Batts role where his f**k ups are slightly better hidden . |
| 11 | ( In fact Boy had n't been hit in the face by O. As I said , that white skin marked easily , and Boy 's eyes were in fact just bruised with fatigue , with six sleepless nights in a row . |
| 12 | ‘ If you had come to England as I thought you would have done , ’ she interrupted frostily . |
| 13 | I ca n't recall , before , having had to peep through my fingers at Coronation Street as I did on Wednesday when Carmel , at the end of a riveting confrontation with Gail , plummeted down the stairs . |
| 14 | The fields shone a new green in the sun , and the air which for days had been hazy had been cleaned by the rain so that I could make out the shapes of sheep grazing near the old Coal Road above Cowgill as I walked down the lane . |
| 15 | ‘ Did you have a good time ? ’ my mother asked Robert as I whispered to Lili that I found old age unclean and a disgrace . |
| 16 | Mr as I read your proof , you presume that by excluding D thirty nine and D forty from the greenbelt , that these sites will be developed . |
| 17 | Yes , erm Arthur as I have mentioned earlier was erm the fourth in command as it were and erm if I can just sort of go down the erm the pecking order , mm , Leslie was the Chief Education Officer . |
| 18 | My personal preference is for Michelin as I have had many years and miles of trouble free use from them . |
| 19 | Looking back on those years between the two wars , and knowing Sam as I did , I am convinced that , had my parents landed in America , as intended , then he would have been in the prohibition racket , without any doubts . |
| 20 | Might I congratulate you on the birth of Henry , or Harry as I notice he is to be called from the announcement in the papers . |
| 21 | Hall then wrote to Palmerston , on 20th March , only one week after asking for the designs , saying that he would not include Donaldson as I think it very doubtful whether the new Department will be proceeded with , as I hope the Downing Street improvement will be carried out' , and two days later The Saturday Review in an article on the competition also suggested that the War Department should be moved to the Downing Street area . |
| 22 | The earth never quite moved for me in the Dante Sonata as I thought at one stage it might . |
| 23 | By then the faster truck , La Resurrección , had pulled over and I had a blurred impression of brilliantly painted pictures of Bethlehem , the birth and the Virgin Mary as I passed it . |
| 24 | Everything went on as normal and I tried to be as pleasant as I could and as loving towards Anne as I had always been , but she must have noticed that a part of me was absent : simply somewhere else . |
| 25 | I leave it all up to Rob as I blank out my mind and hang on to my sanity . |
| 26 | My initial reaction was to feel sorry for Kate as I felt , from the way I read her letter , that she was not getting enough out of her machine . |
| 27 | And he added : ‘ I 'm just going to take the ball off them at the back in Italy as I did in England . |
| 28 | ‘ Drop in any time , ’ said Lewis as I rose to go . |
| 29 | The people of Durham as I say are very fortunate indeed . |
| 30 | ‘ You could come into Inverness and get the early bus back out to Ullapool in the morning … ’ offered Bill as I climbed down from my position of elevation and security . |