Example sentences of "[adv] as i [vb base] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The temptation must be resisted as firmly and valiantly as I have resisted the other , more obvious , more sensual lures and snares . |
| 2 | So long as I 've got somebody now there 's nobody along here . |
| 3 | ‘ For as long as I 've had memories and before that too . |
| 4 | You 've been plaguing the life out of me and everybody else for as long as I 've worked here . |
| 5 | Knowing him for as long as I have done must have worked in my favour . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Go top of the class , Annie , especially as I 've had a look at your knees , ’ said Joe . |
| 7 | Erm so as I 've said things go wrong . |
| 8 | And it 's just as I 've said in local government , er we only get what you 've put in . |
| 9 | He told us the rules of the game , just as I 've described them to you . |
| 10 | it 's just as I 've started in n it , I thought oh I have n't pulled the handbrake off , you know , but , it wo n't go any higher |
| 11 | just as I 've left home , very kind of you I 've just |
| 12 | Somehow we survived it all , just as I have survived 20 years of a lead-piped water supply and a further 20 years as an adult working in a concrete hut insulated on the inside with sprayed-on asbestos ; to say nothing of a like period supervising students using the Haldane gas analysis apparatus , a machine that not infrequently spewed mercury from its taps into the air , whence it fell onto the bench , or sometimes the floor , to be duly swept up by the lab boy at the end of the session for recovery . |
| 13 | No doubt there are those who have seen fear on my face in certain circumstances in this campaign , just as I have seen the same fear on their faces in the same circumstances . |
| 14 | The psychic reasons for this solidarity I have tried to give in this essay , just as I have attempted to spell out some of the political consequences , but it is to Dahrendorf that we owe the making of the connections between solidarity and economic consequences . |
| 15 | I want you to draw up the will exactly as I 've said , and let me have it as soon as possible . ’ |
| 16 | And even the apparent libertine , if Walter 's My Secret Life is in any way an accurate chronicle , had his own anxieties born of sexual discretion : ‘ Does every man kiss , coax , hint smuttily , then talk bawdily , snatch a feel , smell his fingers , assault and win , exactly as I have done ? ’ |
| 17 | As soon as I get settled in some place , it 's time to move on . |
| 18 | You can have everything As soon as I get paid |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I 'm orf ter bed soon as I 've seen Carrie 'ome . |
| 20 | I 've got a ticket , and I 'm using it as soon as I 've seen you . ’ |
| 21 | I 'll have a word with your men as soon as I 've seen Miss Easterbrook . |
| 22 | I 'll lie down on the couch again as soon as I 've seen Mrs Porter . ’ |
| 23 | As soon as I 've collected my things from the boat I 'll catch the first plane home and — ’ |
| 24 | I 'll light the stove as soon as I 've stowed everything away . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ As soon as I 've packed . |
| 26 | I will do as soon as I 've decided what I need . |
| 27 | I 'll be fine as soon as I 've had some breakfast . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm leaving as soon as I 've had something to eat . ’ |
| 29 | I shall be leaving as soon as I 've had something to eat . |
| 30 | Give me your number and I 'll dial as soon as I 've had a word . |