Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure that all my colleagues are as delighted as I am to support this excellent Bill , not least because it builds on the firm foundation organised during the passage of our privatisation measures . |
| 2 | As I am writing these words , I have a persistent , low-pitched hum in my left ear . |
| 3 | Mine starts at least two weeks before I begin fishing and continues , albeit less frequently , for as long as I am fishing that water . |
| 4 | Next year I shall plant crown imperials , Fritillaria imperialis , round the garden as I am told this will deter even the most persistent mole . |
| 5 | I would like to know if anyone else has had to pay for shore dives as I am told this is an illegal practice . |
| 6 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 7 | Just as I was writing this book I received a beautiful card from Sue Fuller whom I had met at the Town and Country Festival last year . |
| 8 | I would like to thank the following women for their support and encouragement as I was writing this piece : Anne Collins , Linda Stepulvage , Tricia Darragh and Lisa Hunt . |
| 9 | As I was writing this , the post brought some advertising blurb : " Are you tuned in to the Win a Fortune Show ? " |
| 10 | Yesterday he said : ‘ I 'm pleased I 've got back to work as I was getting bored at home . |
| 11 | As I was leaving one of the doctors said : ‘ Do n't think this is over . |
| 12 | As I was typing these words , a young friend phoned to tell me about the wonderful summer holiday he had just had with his father . |
| 13 | As I was typing this on the computer ( my VDU is a television set ) , the screen went odd with flashing lines and all the words missing . |
| 14 | As I was thinking this , Pike started to laugh and the voice took on more colour . |
| 15 | Late one afternoon as I was packing some old boots I had begged with wet slack and tea leaves to use as fuel on the fire the door was flung open and Dad stumbled in . |
| 16 | The flight engineer , who had been at Halton as all apprentice with me and had left and later returned to the Air Force , complained bitterly as I was making all the preparations for take-off , but I ignored him . |
| 17 | And I scrambled out of me chain and as I was doing that 's the last he remembers . |
| 18 | Well the , the bed , there were no spring beds in , that came into my life until many years after , were the old straw palliasses , which were really more hygienic to sleep on than your spring beds , because you get the lumbar trouble with a straw palliasses cos it was just hip firm , I give you an instance I used to , as I was growing older I used to fold my trousers and put them under the mattress to press my trousers so I 'd always got a nice crease in my trousers , they were so solid that er you got y you did n't even get any wrinkles in your trousers in those days . |
| 19 | I 'd been having to dig my nails into the palm of my hand very hard in order to stop the tears streaming , which I could n't let happen as I was to speak next and needed to keep steady . |
| 20 | In fact a new study , by Merchant ( 1989 ) , was published as I was drafting this section . |
| 21 | As I was giving this description it came to me that I was talking about someone else . |
| 22 | He says , " I can not remember a dream report which took the form , " Well , I was dreaming of such and such , but as I was dreaming this I was imagining a different scene which was completely unrelated . " " |
| 23 | , ah no , but you , but you were n't aware of that because you were on the floor , as I was saying five minutes ago . |
| 24 | Keeping the best for last , as I was saying earlier ? |
| 25 | As I 'm passing this great big q , queue it always give you a sense of well-being does n't it , when you can walk by to the front sort of thing , not to the front of the queue , you can just walk in . |
| 26 | As I 'm going senile + reliving my second childhood , I have been trying to keep Gav 's fabulous tex fixture list up to date . |
| 27 | As I 'm digesting all this , mi'laddo is digesting a bag of Liquorice Allsorts — with embarrassing results on the road . |
| 28 | But I 've decided that I 'll only be in the band as long as I 'm doing other things as well as . |
| 29 | He 's standing right under me while I 'm trying to make some tea as I 'm pouring boiling water into the teapot and he 's right under my legs . |
| 30 | As you are getting used to it by now we shall start with Gauss 's law . |