Example sentences of "as i [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They viewed me with the same puzzled look as I later saw on the faces of nomads miles from civilization . |
| 2 | As I previously indicated to you , our fees are based on time taken at our appropriate scale rates . |
| 3 | It was as fine an afternoon as you could wish for as I slowly descended to Malham Beck , the Cove coming into view on my left as I walked down . |
| 4 | But it was also a time of exhaustion and tension as I desperately hurtled between work , father and family ; and of sorrow to see him suffering . |
| 5 | I hope you will feel , as I increasingly felt during the research , that we who play today owe all those before us a great debt of gratitude . |
| 6 | Plastic explosive burns quietly , as I once demonstrated in an admiral 's ashtray , believing the stuff to be an enemy incendiary compound . |
| 7 | Well as I actually had to going round the corner , to get myself round the corner , I had to come off the brake and onto the accelerator |
| 8 | ‘ Before I came here , I had my life all sorted out , I was happy — at least , as happy as I ever expected to be . |
| 9 | The whole process was serviced and kept running by as exceptional a staff of civil servants as I ever worked with in over ten years as a Cabinet minister . |
| 10 | John asked me to help him the following year as I often came to Stamford to see my mother . |
| 11 | ‘ Tomorrow we will look for a house to rent but as I only arrived in London this morning I have not had the time . |
| 12 | This , however , caused me untold problems , as I then had to ‘ answer ’ to the officer and see a tutor at the nursing school to explain the reason for such criticism . |
| 13 | I am so happy , as I never expected to be , knowing that he wishes to marry me , has not rejected me as soiled goods as so many would have done . |
| 14 | Was he , as I originally suspected in Salamanca , an FBI agent or working for the CIA ? ft was a mystery I had no longer any wish to clear up . |
| 15 | I had quite forgotten that Mrs Bailes occasionally tethered him in the kennel at the entrance to discourage unwelcome visitors , and as I half lay against the wall , the blood thundering in my ears , I looked dully at the long coil of chain on the cobbles . |
| 16 | The debt played on my mind as I half listened to a soprano trying to sing Lulu 's ‘ Shout ’ . |
| 17 | As I warily got to my feet I felt a compulsion to retrace my steps in the direction of Jock 's trench . |
| 18 | As we discussed at our first meeting and as I subsequently discussed with Angela Rumbold , it was very clear that unless there was a preparedness on the part of the Home Office to take its hands off the management of the Prison Service in its day to day business and allow itself to be constrained by matters of policy only , then it would not be possible to effect the changes which you deem desirable and which have become very clear to me as being necessary during the talks I have had and the visits I have made . |
| 19 | The thumb was out as I resolutely walked along the road shielding my eyes from oncoming lights and wistfully following the tails lights of cars that sailed by . |