Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | As I take this bread and drink this wine , I am affirming to men , and to angels and to demons , that I believe Jesus Christ died for me , and I identify myself with him in his sacrifice for me . |
2 | Each individual aspect of dogdom has now become a complete science and discipline ; indeed , as I pen this foreword , a working party comprising the leading authorities on all aspects of dogs are compiling a nationally recognizable qualification allied to the ‘ City and Guilds ’ degree . |
3 | As I unveil this plaque to the glory of God and in memory of all those who served in the Hundredth Bomb Group in the cause of freedom from this airfield . |
4 | And as I had this urge to correct manuscripts as I went along , and could n't read his handwriting , and did n't know the first thing about Roman Britain , you can imagine he felt obliged to educate me . |
5 | The rage and hatred I felt as I wrote this letter was terrifying , like a sudden , violent illness . |
6 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
7 | A as I said this morning t to the management team it is available . |
8 | As I said this morning does n't oppose er in principle the idea of of of er an exceptions policy . |
9 | Never had an occasion to use , well the only time I 've used a newspaper as far as I know this afternoon when I emptied the bag . |
10 | As soon as I adopted this expedient , my interviews were quite transformed . ’ |
11 | As I discovered this arrangement , I began to feel almost sorry for any potential thief . |
12 | So that is one thing as I develop this theme you 'll you 'll see . |
13 | As I write this article ( in July ) I am in the throes of finishing my new ribber video , ‘ English and Fisherman 's Rib ’ . |
14 | As I write this article , film of starving children in Somalia is the most recent image of childhood to be presented to my eyes . |
15 | In the spring of 1987 , as I write this piece , a very different political climate prevails . |
16 | If we can establish that literacy practice involved a socially variable set of conventions ( as I hope this book will make a contribution to doing ) , then claims for its consequences will not so easily be disguised as universal truths . |
17 | In so far as I understand this view , and it is not yet a matter of close textual criticism of a published account , I find it difficult to connect the commonsense properties of consciousness ( vague as they may be ) , with the notions of repair and debugging ( fundamental as those are to any account of intelligent mechanisms ) . |
18 | Surely it can not be possible , she was thinking , to love anyone as intensely as I love this man . |
19 | As I revise this chapter , celebrations of the anniversary of the so-called Glorious Revolution of 1688 once again bring home the fact that while other nations trace the origins of their freedom and identity to popular uprisings , the British happily attach the word ‘ revolution ’ to a mere coup d'état . |
20 | erm Jane gave me the figures and as I say this division is about forty seven percent . |
21 | As the Daily Express noted : ‘ Much as I disliked this film and its cheap exploitation of suffering and illness , I must concede that it has been made with the dead-on professionalism that is characteristic of the other ‘ Carry Ons . ’ ’ |
22 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
23 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
24 | It is with such men as it is with the English landscape seen at its best as I did this morning : when one encounters them , one simply knows one is in the presence of greatness . |
25 | Erm and erm I do n't think that on the to go on about affordable housing as I did this morning , I do n't think that in fact the affordable housing targets which the different authorities have and although I 've only quoted four authorities I think , I think the other ones will be very much the same . |
26 | Shall I pick you up at the same time as I did this morning ? ’ |
27 | Every evening , as I see this crack , I think the same thought . |
28 | ‘ Every evening , as I see this crack , I think the same thought . ’ |
29 | ‘ Every evening , as I see this crack , I think the same thought : ‘ Every evening , as I see this crack , I think the same thought . ’ ‘ |
30 | ‘ Every evening , as I see this crack , I think the same thought : ‘ Every evening , as I see this crack , I think the same thought . ’ ‘ |