Example sentences of "as i have [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 It 's too bad , just as I 'd plucked up … . ’
2 As soon as I 'd woken up , I started to get strange pains in my stomach .
3 ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others .
4 Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again .
5 As I had to go back to my office after a big luncheon party , I arrived half way through the collection .
6 This year I could only stay a very short time , as I had to get out to Cliveden for a charity ball the same evening .
7 Fixing me with a beady eye as soon as I had sat down , she leaned over to damn me with faint praise .
8 ‘ It has been lowered over my head many times , and then , as I have reached up to smite it , it has passed before me and consumed many people .
9 ‘ My family has always helped me out , but it 's getting hard , especially as I have to give up work for four months . ’
10 Colour , like all sensory perception , is , as I have pointed out , very much a subjective , mental experience .
11 The BBC is no longer , as I have pointed out before , involved in public service broadcasting .
12 The role models in the form of key sporting figures to imitate or emulate are , as I have pointed out , important as external stimuli , providing the youths with evidence of the successes blacks can achieve in certain spheres and heightening awarenesses of the possible routes to the top .
13 And , as I have pointed out , its part in the sports process is non-existent — unless it acts as a deterrent .
14 The effects of the roles of teachers in precipitating an active sports interest can be , as I have pointed out , debilitating academically .
15 As I have pointed out , AIB require a very high standard of professional knowledge either as a pilot or as an engineer before accepting someone as an investigator .
16 The paint is a bit more fluid than standard tube watercolour but , as I have pointed out , colour can be poured into palettes , empty pans or even ice cube trays and reconstituted .
17 Much of this argumentation is , of course , concerned with very broad states of language , and , as I have pointed out , can apply only at a rather high level of generality , because it is likely that in EModE , as in PresE , there were varying conditioned allophones of /a/ ( perhaps some front and some back , or some low and some low-mid ) .
18 As I have pointed out already , desktop publishing software does n't really do very much on its own , it requires the output from a number of other packages ; word processors , graphics programs , data bases and spreadsheets , to produce the raw information which can then be manipulated into a final form .
19 Mr. Walker : As I have pointed out many times to the Hon. Gentleman , the toll on the Seven bridge was imposed during the period of a Labour Government .
20 As I have pointed out , sir , independent sources are very hard to come by in these sort of areas .
21 It is possible to use the bodhran quite subtly as I have found out .
22 Excuse me for not writing more as I have to catch up with some sleep and get to a meeting about the course by 10 a.m. tomorrow !
23 As I have to get up early , I 'll break off the letter now , and take up the story later .
24 He will carry on from me , perhaps , as I have carried on from my father .
25 As I have to come back to the airport to pick up a member of tonight 's convention it will be easy to drop you off at the same time . ’
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