Example sentences of "[adv] as i [vb base] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much as I hope this will never occur , all that would happen is that the patient would either open his eyes and come completely out of the hypnotic state , or that he might doze for some ten or fifteen minutes before waking as if from a nap in an armchair . |
| 2 | ‘ So long as I keep still , I feel very little . |
| 3 | I am neither , nor intend to be treated as , a paid cook or a resident and beholden domestic , especially as I get tired very easily and neither of them is working . |
| 4 | Oh so as I get another chance then ? |
| 5 | I may be tempted to offer the spontaneous inclination itself as reason for my choice , and say I shall do it because I want to do it ; but in examining myself objectively I see that a fact about my wants and likes would be directly relevant only to a causal explanation of my actions , and could be used in deciding what to do only as I use any other objective facts . |
| 6 | I love my unborn baby deeply , just as I know other teenage mothers do . |
| 7 | All I want is some friends , but as soon as I get some real good friends they go off and leave me . |
| 8 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 9 | I will pay you back , I promise , as soon as I get payed , I give you the money back . |
| 10 | As soon as I sell this I can get one . |
| 11 | As soon as I finish five pages , the apartment starts to buzz and chatter . |
| 12 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |
| 13 | Er , as far as I know all the forms that were allocated to me have been versioned and distributed out to everybody , so I should have lots of version forms . |
| 14 | He went back to Nuremberg in 1946 to testify , but as far as I know that 's the only time he ever left the country . ’ |
| 15 | And as far as I know that 's the only coverage I 've seen personally of it . |
| 16 | Er as far as I know that 'll be okay . |
| 17 | As far as I know that 's , that 's going out as well , erm in fact he went over to Dublin to get a bit of training erm idea in pilot . |
| 18 | Similar challenges have been organised previously in London , Canterbury etc but as far as I know this one is a ‘ first ’ for Edinburgh . |
| 19 | Never had an occasion to use , well the only time I 've used a newspaper as far as I know this afternoon when I emptied the bag . |
| 20 | Erm all the figures there are as far as I know full year effects , so there are no half year effects . |
| 21 | He was sympathetic , " I do not intend " , he declared , " so far as I have any power , to allow the increase of Chinese seamen in the United Kingdom ports to be continued " . |
| 22 | In so far as I understand this view , and it is not yet a matter of close textual criticism of a published account , I find it difficult to connect the commonsense properties of consciousness ( vague as they may be ) , with the notions of repair and debugging ( fundamental as those are to any account of intelligent mechanisms ) . |
| 23 | ah well as I know that now . |
| 24 | You know as well as I do that you can not take an animal unless it 's dead and that animal died in the minefield . ’ |
| 25 | You have to be punished in some way , and you know as well as I do that your case lacks substance . |
| 26 | ‘ You know as well as I do that if she knows about Ari , she 'll want a piece of the action . |
| 27 | You know as well as I do that we can too easily by intonation or facial expression or ( the prose equivalent of those signals ) by the precise positioning of a single word in the surrounding thicket of language make the simple statement ‘ I love you ’ mean ‘ I own you , despise you , exploit , deceive or hate you ’ just as the equally plain ‘ I hate you ’ can be picked up as ‘ I fear , envy , respect , despise , own , exploit , deceive or love you , love , love you . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ My dear Kegan , you know as well as I do that you came in on my side of the fence not out of some great disinterested love of science — you do n't know what science is all about ! — but because you saw a hope of personal glory in it ! |
| 29 | You know as well as I do that Rudolfo 's the only one involved who has a house up there . |
| 30 | They know as well as I do that it has nothing whatsoever to do with who heads a company . |