Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] as i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well no , that was another thing more or less as I was coming out the door they 'd got the news thing on and this was Australia the new prime minister , I do n't know his name , he 's running down I did n't hear it properly but I heard the gist of it , erm and it |
| 2 | Your jewels Eachuinn Odhar gave to me , to return to you or not as I judged you innocent or guilty . |
| 3 | And what is more , I 'll give it or not as I please ; and I 'll be buggered if I 'll ask permission of some pushy little perisher before I do so . ’ |
| 4 | But she put it up here , I think probably to make it easier , I mean if anyone 's had , I do n't know if anyone had children in the seventies when it was the fashion to wear very long skirts , or even as I find going up and down stairs in my nightie , you 're more than likely to fall and break a leg and the baby 's neck at the same time , if you wear a long skirt . |
| 5 | And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time . |
| 6 | And so as I understand it that 's the situation |
| 7 | He was black , and perhaps as I was in trousers , he thought I might have known Sir Richard Whittington . |
| 8 | I 'd stamp up and down as I walked along , and up would pop the balls that had been buried in the sand . |
| 9 | I finished the song and only as I left the stage did I realise I had wet myself with fear . |
| 10 | The temptation must be resisted as firmly and valiantly as I have resisted the other , more obvious , more sensual lures and snares . |
| 11 | This was an ingenious wheelchair attached to the front of a bicycle ; and lastly as I left , I had a word with Stefan Sielaff from Germany , who had designed a fantastic three-wheeled single seater vehicle in fibreglass , that was catching everyone 's eye ! |
| 12 | And anyway as I said , I 'm not Irish . ’ |
| 13 | But things turned out as they were bound to do and not as I expected ; there was a typically whole gastrula on my dish the next morning , differing only by its small size from a normal one ; and this small but whole gastrula developed into a whole and typical larva … |
| 14 | I fished on , more as an act of defiance than in the hope of catching anything ; and just as I was about to surrender a fish rose , as they always do in these circumstances , far beyond my reach . |
| 15 | ‘ He has been seized with his fits three times in the space of seven days , ’ Coleridge wrote to Joseph Cottle on 15 March ; ‘ and just as I was in bed , last night , I was called up again — and from 12 o clock at night to five this morning he remained in one continued state of agoniz 'd Delirium . ’ |
| 16 | I turned off to the right through the row of trees , and just as I was meandering past thy rhododendrons I shouted , ‘ Hell and damnation ! ’ |
| 17 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 18 | ‘ There ! ’ he said abruptly and threw the plane straight again , but this time dropping the nose , and I saw a jeep churning dust from the dirt road which ran the length of the island 's long shank , between the golf course and the houses , and just as I saw the jeep so the red tracer bullets began climbing from a machine-gun mounted in the back of the vehicle . |
| 19 | He sits there looking like John Knox being unimpressed by Mary Stuart , and just as I think he 'll never let me increase my overdraft he says , ‘ Aye , life 's not easy for a woman alone with no head for business . |
| 20 | He said I ca n't I 'm here on my own , he said get a cab and I 'll give you the money back , so anyway I rung Pauline 's husband up Steve and he said I 'll take you , I said to Steve I 've got ta get there for one o'clock cos I said I really do feel that if I do n't see him before he goes I ai n't gon na bloody see him , he was ever so good , he were here at twenty to one , got straight in the car put his foot down , went to the General and just as I got in the door Steve do n't worry about me parking , go , I 'll find you , just get in there , I ran through the bloody doors , ran up the stairs cos I knew |
| 21 | So this is , what got me a bit suspicious right , well I speaking to her and all and I said , well you know , this is it and , you know she said she knows George is , is meant to be coming up and I said look and I says and I 'm gon na go down onto the floor here , and just as I was to go onto the floor there was a phone call right , and it was Alice . |
| 22 | It attracted me like a magnet when I was a youth , and soon as I could leave school I was up at the course for a caddying job . |
| 23 | While I 'm digging that garden she used to go out roll in the trench what I 'd dug and soon as I went in for a drink she was in there before me ! |
| 24 | And I 'm going as slow as I can go and I 'm just taking everything in , and I 'm unwinding , I 'm relaxing mentally and physically as I do it because that 's what I feel I need at the moment , and having that ability is good . |
| 25 | I screamed and pulled with all my might , shaking my hands and my head and throwing myself backwards and over as I did so , banging one knee off the gun where it lay , fallen in the sand . |
| 26 | I think it 's debatable how selfish people really are , particularly when they see that their are short-term selfishness may in fact create long-term problems for themselves , for their children , for their grandchildren , for er other generations and other peoples , and really as I can see it the green message is one of enlightened self-interest . |
| 27 | The third phrase uses the same device : the second half ( ‘ my thoughts ever stray ’ ) repeats the first ( ‘ And now as I wander ’ ) at a higher pitch . |
| 28 | They have since left and had families and now as I am retiring they are all back . |
| 29 | I have seen at long last that I need to be free of my beloved mistress and even as I write that word it is hollow for how can I love one who no longer has the least regard for me ? |
| 30 | Mr Dobbs said : ‘ As far as I am aware the BBC want to do the sequel , and even as I speak they are discussing potential script writers . ’ |