Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right so as I said , Point taken but I 'd like people to go away and read it . |
| 2 | Granpa clapped so loud as I returned to my place that some of the mums looked round and smiled , which made the old fellow even more determined to see that I stayed on at school until I was fourteen . |
| 3 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 4 | When you were here before I was only a schoolboy and er just er old enough to know everything that was going on , as you might say , but young enough so as I did n't get too involved . |
| 5 | ‘ I was personally told he was not concerned about my past so long as I kept up a volume of business , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Everything went smoothly so long as I lay on my tummy , but when they turned me on to my back I was assailed with a searing pain there . |
| 7 | I was in no mood to stop them so long as I got my mail . |
| 8 | I guaranteed a starting price so long as I got last refusal — he was auctioning the piece . |
| 9 | So long as I stuck to squawks and Pretty fucking Polly , I was fine ? |
| 10 | She left this house to us , and an allowance to Emily so long as she did n't marry , and one to me so long as I stayed with her . |
| 11 | The calculations I must have performed to decide where the ball was going to be , and to hit it , are staggering , but I managed ( so long as I did not stop to ask how I was doing it ) . |
| 12 | So just as I began to read to see , so too I began to write to see . |
| 13 | Here 's money for my meat ; I would have left it on the board , so soon As I had made my meal ; and parted With prayers for the provider |
| 14 | Self-cleaning oven so far as I knew . |
| 15 | ‘ So far as I knew I had attended to every trifling detail , yet every plan , every hope , seemed to be going wrong . |
| 16 | So far as I knew there was no Indian name for Moose Jaw , but I had a brain-wave that might help . |
| 17 | So far as I knew I covered the area around my bowels , liver , one kidney and all the other bits and pieces that make up a living abdomen . |
| 18 | In so far as I did understand it , I welcome his commitment of the Labour party to the Trident programme . |
| 19 | We never rested five minutes that he did not fall asleep and gave us a little nasal music , and which hindered me nothing so fully as I wished to have done . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're not exactly as I imagined , ’ Estabrook replied . |
| 21 | ‘ He flew away just as I 'd nearly got him . ’ |
| 22 | She hid it away quickly as I entered the room . |
| 23 | He took up a cloth by the side of the cash register and started to move it slowly over the surface , looking up just once as I left the shop , saying , ‘ Goodbye , then . ’ |
| 24 | Bearing in mind that although not here as I said , but he he he worked for his father . |
| 25 | ‘ Not quite as I imagined . |
| 26 | Just briefly as I asked Mr were you saying harbouring situation , or are you saying hostage situation or are you saying neither ? |
| 27 | The connection between girls suffering from eating disorders and violently hating their own bodies , and sexual violence in society , struck me more and more powerfully as I listened to girls talking about periods , body shape and size , and how they feel about their bodies . |
| 28 | I was lucky not to break the elbow — a colleague in the cycling club appeared that week with arm in sling , having fallen off exactly as I did . |
| 29 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
| 30 | In a panic I phoned tom to ask if he could come home early as I wanted to discuss Peter with him before the boy got home . |