Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] as i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Rather than so As I say you associate the car and the number together . |
| 3 | And so as I understand it that 's the situation |
| 4 | The temptation must be resisted as firmly and valiantly as I have resisted the other , more obvious , more sensual lures and snares . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Finally , and even as I write , new and deeper understandings of the Lorenz system are in the offing { 12 } . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Taking the prince by the hand , she continued , ‘ Lo , here is this gentleman whom I doubt not would be safely kept by me , if I were permitted ; and well as I know there be some deadly enemies to my blood , that if they knew where any lay in their own bodies , they would let it out if they could ! ’ |
| 12 | I put the branch two-handed over my right shoulder as I run up to them , jump over a small bush and then as I land at their side bring the branch swinging down . |
| 13 | And then as I say they can write off for a pack and they get examples which cost them . |
| 14 | And then as I say , it was defend , defend , defend for the last quarter of an hour . |
| 15 | And again as I say it 's rather a nice erm picture which erm er was given to me some time ago . |
| 16 | Not in any special order but just as I remember them . |
| 17 | On the one hand there 's Little Liz , and on the other there 's Lovebite ; but just as I think I 've made a decision , the image of Lord Lane comes into my mind and I get all confused again . |
| 18 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
| 19 | I 'm thinking there might be something wrong with my plan to wait as I close my eyes ( only to rest them ) , but even as I yawn and put my hands into my armpits I think a spot of rest is n't such a bad idea so long as I do n't fall asleep . |
| 20 | But even as I squirm free , I see his gun come round toward my face . |
| 21 | you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem . |
| 22 | Er medically , as best as I understand what the doctors tell me , er I 'm er fine to carry the responsibilities and strain of er the cabinet job that I had . |
| 23 | I will write again as soon as I know the opinion of the Parish Council . |
| 24 | ‘ Give me your number , and as soon as I know the score I 'll ring you back . |
| 25 | As soon as I know when the dates are fo for the concert . |
| 26 | I 'll let you know as soon as I know . |
| 27 | ‘ As soon as I 've rung my Orderly Officer to give him certain instructions , I 'll have to get off back . ’ |
| 28 | He deserves the consequences , and I shall point them out to him — from a safe distance , of course — as soon as I 've trapped him . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Just as soon as I 've finished my tea and had a bath . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I told him to go jump in a lake , ’ Ellen said very calmly , ‘ and then I told him that just as soon as I 've finished with the Crowninshield twins I shall be sailing away — ’ she clinked her glass on mine , ‘ with you . ’ |