Example sentences of "[v-ing] as i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is all realistic and is happening as I think it would if small boys were alone on an island . |
| 2 | Pa and Ms are both snoring as I watch the yellow dustcart reverse up our track . |
| 3 | The results of my journey can not , I think , but be attended with great advantage to science returning as I have loaded with novelties in every department of zoology ; besides much entirely [ new ] information respecting the habits and economy of the singular forms peculiar to Australia . |
| 4 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 5 | I am writing as I disagree with various comments made in an article entitled A Pair of Glasses … by Linda Lewis , as I feel that it gave Indian Glassfish a very negative press . |
| 6 | In which case forgive me for writing as I have done . |
| 7 | So ( and this is my conclusion ) I am resigned to living as I have lived : alone , with my throng of great men as my only cronies — a bear , with my bear-rug for company . |
| 8 | And now here I am , stumbling as I start to jog an my heavy , muddied wellingtons along the pale grey light of a path . |
| 9 | Councils run by all groupings and more importantly on the whole er by none at all er through independent councillors at parish level and they have responded with that united voice , declaring their support for a separate Cornish constituency and it might er bear remarking as I think members on all sides of this house are aware , getting that kind of agreement between councils at different tiers and in different areas of the county is pretty remarkable in itself . |
| 10 | I intend to keep on going as I have been . |
| 11 | Er either sooner or later we 've just got to keep going as I say . |
| 12 | What am I wearing as I pine for the future , |
| 13 | In over ten years of supplementing fish food with earthworms , I have not been able to relate fish death to earthworm feeding as I have done for tubifex . |
| 14 | Sense of glass expanding as I enter . |
| 15 | But now My heart is breaking as I see the crumbling mess , |
| 16 | I 'm crying as I write this because we might have been able to save her . |
| 17 | Yes Mr Chairman erm I understand the motive behind this proposal resolution but I think the mover perhaps is unaware of what 's actually going on and have to decide and so I would like to speak against this resolution and I think the constructive thing to do so we do n't send the wrong messages would be to er I , I will move an amendment er and I will explain what I 'm doing as I speak . |
| 18 | The other question , however , as to what exactly I am supposed to be doing as I sit here , is plainly still a live issue — which is the reason for this intolerably circumstantial disquisition . |
| 19 | honourable member what he 's really saying as I understand it Madam Speaker is there 's too much bureaucracy and the bureaucracy is going to prevent anybody acting because they 're all overlapping , they 're all paid out of presumably the public purse as well , there 's a there 's a enormous number of public off officials that is preventing er a a clear direct , exes executive arm . |
| 20 | I certainly Mr Chairman welcome this paper erm and I know today that I think possibly the main reason being erm , I could be deemed also been through and through today responding to our local issue and that maybe due to May fever , I do n't know , erm , in really accepting acknowledging as I have done in the past your efforts , erm the county surveyor 's efforts for this part of Suffolk I do again bring to your attention and I do n't think is being critical in that the Barnet by bypass is part of a far bigger jigsaw and that jigsaw I say not |
| 21 | My heart kept jumping as I read it , remembering Dana and our many days and nights together . |
| 22 | My hand is shaking as I write . |
| 23 | ‘ I shall start the bagpipes here and walk back down the hill towards the woods , playing as I go . ’ |
| 24 | I often see him watching as I go by . |
| 25 | Hating as I have never hated . |
| 26 | The phone is ringing as I come through the door of my office . |
| 27 | The phone is ringing as I fumble with the key , my bladder is bursting and as I fall into the room I 'm undecided which call to answer first . |
| 28 | really but seeing as I know her erm I thought I might give her a ring . |
| 29 | Just to set the scene and seeing as I have n't been in the plot too much lately . |
| 30 | And seeing as I have n't got an account with them I do n't think they 'll say well you can have some anyway . |