Example sentences of "as [pron] speak " in BNC.
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| 1 | As no-one spoke , his voice fell to a harsh whisper . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | THE tears are welling up as I speak . |
| 4 | The University had by now hired a professional in the form of one Ira Magaziner , a business strategy consultant who also picked up the ‘ yellow peril ’ theme by telling the congressional enquiry : ‘ As I speak to you now it is midnight in Japan . |
| 5 | Emilia reveals that she found the handkerchief ( ‘ Villainous whore ! ’ and ‘ Filth ’ , he calls her ) , and with her dying breath — that most crucial of all utterances to Renaissance beliefs — proclaims her integrity : ‘ So come my soul to bliss , as I speak true ; /So speaking as I think , alas , I die ’ ( V.ii.253f . ) . |
| 6 | But even " I actually exist " , it might be argued , though trivially true as I speak it , is not entirely uninformative , for I might never have existed . |
| 7 | I refer to people who , as I speak , are sitting at home , unable to put on their electric fires . |
| 8 | But all I can say is that I am certain that there is , as I speak , an extraterrestrial presence in the area . |
| 9 | . We want to talk first of all about the North Yorkshire M Ps , we have t We 're on to Michael as I speak , and his secretary has been very very charming , very helpful , very nice . |
| 10 | Those are the Saw Doctors interesting this about the Saw Doctors is one of them won the lottery in Ireland I do n't they have a lottery we 're go when are we going to get a national lottery that 's what I want to know when are we going to get it a national next year we 're going to get a national lottery that 's right and one of the Saw Doctors won the national lottery and he won three quarters of a million pounds er and they have n't made much money the Saw Doctors but he won three quarters of a million pounds so that have n't worked for quite some time but they are back on the scene as I speak and er they really if if they er come to York they 're certainly worth seeing . |
| 11 | As I speak they watch my face . |
| 12 | Yes Mr Chairman erm I understand the motive behind this proposal resolution but I think the mover perhaps is unaware of what 's actually going on and have to decide and so I would like to speak against this resolution and I think the constructive thing to do so we do n't send the wrong messages would be to er I , I will move an amendment er and I will explain what I 'm doing as I speak . |
| 13 | The rain which is making conditions up here decidedly unpleasant is as I speak seeping through the rocks and creating foaming torrents underground , flooding caverns and making passages impassable . |
| 14 | as I speak it right ? |
| 15 | Yes , I can see the Vice Chancellor banging on the wall as I speak . |
| 16 | As I speak , a chance now for Martin Foyle ; Foyle has scored for Oxford , he 's done it , Oxford have pulled one back , tremendous through ball for Martin Foyle , he cheeked his way round the goalkeeper , put it in with the side of his foot so you 've come at exactly the right time , thirty one minutes gone , Spurs two , Oxford United one and the goal coming from Martin Foyle . |
| 17 | As I speak a chance now for Martin Foyle — Foyle has scored for Oxford — he 's done it , Oxford have pulled one back , tremendous through ball for Martin Foyle . |
| 18 | As I spoke to Chauvet and several other Commandos scattered around the orchard , I was impressed by their determination to stay here in France , no matter what . |
| 19 | Just as I spoke , there was a tremendous bang , and the whole station shook . |
| 20 | I 'd already set up the perch , so I put Dawn on it as I spoke . |
| 21 | Mrs Newton was looking more and more agitated , as I spoke . |
| 22 | But I looked out of the window as I spoke to him . |
| 23 | I watched as I spoke in case she passed out again . |
| 24 | As I spoke , I looked at her , and she smiled at me prettily . |
| 25 | I said without thinking , ‘ I wonder what you were all like when you were young ? ’ , realising as I spoke how young I was myself as four people in early middle age turned to regard me with varying degrees of indignation and amusement . |
| 26 | Even as I spoke , we were reduced to just about no light at all . |
| 27 | As I spoke the words , some strange thing struggled in my mind . |
| 28 | And yet I knew , as I spoke , that this was what I had always thought but had been too frightened to express . |
| 29 | I already knew it was n't a good idea ; I could hear the tone of my voice rising higher and higher as I spoke the sentence , and that was always a sign I was getting into some sort of verbal mess . |
| 30 | ‘ First off , ’ I said , thinking as I spoke , ‘ I 'm looking for a four-by-four . |