Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] as [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd have to , I 'd have to erm I 'd have to raise it er and I think to be quite honest the er I mean fortunately as I said earlier on Mr chairman there is a Regional Liaison Group meeting on , on Monday er and I have a captive audience of three budget holders , Doug Gill and Phil , erm and raise this with them .
2 Yeah I mean so as they 're not stood there doing nothing .
3 ‘ Have been reading ’ , I realized even as I struggled to find somewhere to stand the strawboard in the darkness , makes a somewhat smaller claim than ‘ have read ’ , and I scarcely expect that my ‘ books ’ , to anyone outside the very restricted world of philosophical studies , are going to include the two on Spinoza ; all of which suggests a second-hand and partial acquaintance with my only other work , Natural Man .
4 It rarely took less than seven minutes to organize the few things I needed , so that day I rehearsed mentally as I went along : ‘ Choose the best place to stop .
5 During the lead-up to my emergence as a fully-fledged lesbian , I suffered unspeakably as I steered myself through a minefield of heavily internalized Catholic dogma .
6 I run fast as I can at the window , but it still wo n't break .
7 I sighed heavily as I looked first at one and then at the other while we made our slow way down the main street , past Woolworth and the traffic lights .
8 I sighed inwardly as I followed him .
9 I smile easily as they go
10 I smile indulgently as I watch her write a shopping list on a document drawn up in my own hand .
11 I felt rather as I should if , on my asking him what he would like for lunch , he had replied ‘ thriftiness ’ , or ‘ thirty-seven degrees Centigrade ’ .
12 I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me .
13 This had better be good , I thought grimly as I crossed the road and walked up the cul-de-sac to the Parsonage .
14 I listened carefully as I want to learn all the green I can in case Maggie comes our way .
15 I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin .
16 I do exactly as you say !
17 I think probably as you .
18 So I think today as we dedicate this magnificently restored control tower and memento to the Hundredth Group that we think about three groups of people .
19 Yeah but I think now as she 's so advanced in her dance
20 I move away as I would prefer to talk with someone from the same planet .
21 I nod discreetly as I pass her , expecting no response .
22 I was in charge of what is known as the governor , which I felt might be an error , but I did exactly as I was told and all went well .
23 I did exactly as I had promised .
24 I cried sadly as I stood there .
25 ‘ Very well , thank you , ’ I answered shyly as he patted me on the head .
26 ‘ It was the least I could do , ’ I said weakly as she brushed her lips against my cheek .
27 ‘ Good morning , Mrs Clamp , ’ I said pleasantly as I entered the kitchen .
28 But , remarkable or not , this is what we say ; there is this language game in which what happens later ( 7–8 , 14 , etc. , cf. 100 ) is the criterion ( 22 ) of my meaning someone , or something : asked whether I wanted Jones to come , I answer almost as I answer a question about my present sensations ( 7 ) and yet I say , ‘ I meant you , not Jones . ’
29 I write slowly as I think :
30 I write now as I found at the time .
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