Example sentences of "[adv] as i [vb base] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Much as I like the idea , I do n't think your parents would be best pleased would they ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ My darling girl , ’ he said , ‘ much as I hate the idea , we must stop this . |
| 3 | Much as I admire the French , nothing can compare with being back home in good old Blighty . |
| 4 | Much as I love the works of J.R.R. Tolkien , I refuse to call any dog Bilbo Baggins , so Bill he has become ; anyway , the only resemblance between Bill and a hobbit is that both have hairy feet and a liking for grubbing around in sandy holes . |
| 5 | So long as I get the train . ’ |
| 6 | So long as I shove the washing in the do n't like it in there it 's dingy , unless the sun 's out . |
| 7 | This will be fine so long as I obey the ‘ point cam moving rule ’ while doing this and for every move thereafter . |
| 8 | So long as I hold the office of Home Secretary , I shall give no countenance to the view that they should not be prevented from being such a danger . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm in good shape and I will sing for as long as I have the strength to do so , ’ he added . |
| 10 | Especially as I get the accents right . |
| 11 | Especially as I get the accents right . |
| 12 | JUST AS I LOATHE THE WORD ‘ WORKSHOP ’ , I FEEL QUEASY WHEN PLACES include the word ‘ centre ’ . |
| 13 | Beejay always seems to spot the object in the hedge that he can not possibly pass without a protect , just as I hear the roar of a fast-moving car at our rear . |
| 14 | Just as I have the right to live mine … ’ |
| 15 | I , the armchair observer , lament the cessation of the old skills and crafts just as I deplore the desecration of the open fields by more and more bypasses , pylons , wires , bungalows , concrete , traffic and litter . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course , just as soon as I get the results from this test . |
| 17 | by then I may have sold the house and , I mean , as soon as I sell the house |
| 18 | At first the belts slip round the flat pulleys — they 're meant to — but as soon as I squirt the gum they grab and the shafts pick up speed real fast , and the spokes on the pulleys blur and disappear . |
| 19 | I will write again as soon as I know the opinion of the Parish Council . |
| 20 | ‘ Give me your number , and as soon as I know the score I 'll ring you back . |
| 21 | ‘ Carolyn , I 'll go and look at him as soon as I shut the door on you . |
| 22 | It did n't matter — as soon as I read the word alchemy , alarm bells began ringing in the fire station of my mind . |
| 23 | And as soon as I read the name I see her standing there in the witness box , self-contained , precise , unknowable . |
| 24 | Despair overtakes me as soon as I see the dreaded trolleys jammed together ; I always manage to pick one with a crab-like action ; my heart sinks and culinary amnesia sets in somewhere between the tinned fruit and dried pasta . |
| 25 | I have slept in a full set of thermal underwear , but the cold gets to me as soon as I leave the bag . |
| 26 | Then say to the audience ‘ What I would like you to do as soon as I leave the room is to turn over the card on the top of this pile and look at it . ’ |
| 27 | Now as I watch the progress of the plague , The friends surrounding me fall sick , grow thin , And drop away . |
| 28 | I mean I 'm no historian , you 'd have to check up on this with my hubby , but as far as I know the Reformation started up North in Europe a guid lang mile away from Rome and the Pope and that , up in the Region of what we now know as Holland , and Germany and Alsace Lorraine . |
| 29 | As far as I know the book was displayed very well in the shops , it was n't under the counter or anything like that , and exactly nothing happened . |
| 30 | So how did the work out because as far as I know the the riveter got the cash and then he divvied up the money between |