Example sentences of "as i had [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaitskell became excited at the prospect and instructed me with great firmness that as soon as I had received the ‘ discovered ’ documents I was to show them to no one but to come straight to him , so that he should be the first person to know who the culprit was or what information was available that would lead to the culprit 's identity . |
| 2 | It was unfortunate , I thought , that at the same time as I had realised the grandeur of God I had fallen in love with a mortal , and that the two experiences should have proved to be mutually exclusive , leaving me with the sensation that I was being sundered by equal forces . |
| 3 | They began with Haydn 's Cello Concerto , which was a pleasant surprise for me as I had heard the piece only a week or two before at a concert of Mozart and Haydn 's music featuring Camerata and had liked the piece very much . |
| 4 | Suddenly I found myself moving forward and I crouched a little as I had seen the experts do in films . |
| 5 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |
| 6 | It gave me a temporary Equity card — mind you they took it away again as soon as I had done the four weeks work . |
| 7 | I had accepted the equal reality of Mary Shelley and her creation , Victor Frankenstein , just as I had accepted the equal reality of Victor and his monster . |
| 8 | Additional information really , is , as I had missed the train comma , but it 's , er , you 've got to have a comma after train , because it 's following that rule that was given in the top left hand corner , after I cashed my Giro comma , because of the derailment comma , it 's it 's that rule , it 's the application of that rule . |
| 9 | As soon as I had cut the tape the bottom volume dropped into my lap . |
| 10 | I had accepted a position with I.A. Wartberg Limited , which , as I had told the aunts , was a company responsible for the manufacture of the deep-bore drilling valves employed in the North Sea oil industry . |
| 11 | This peculiar state of affairs mystified me , as I had expected the presence of a local bus IDE host card to make itself felt in a big way . |
| 12 | I telephoned him as soon as I had read the article , and told him that he is facing a very heavy fine for talking to the Press without my permission . |
| 13 | But as soon as I had left the building , James and the Old Man and all the ties and affections of my ex-job began to blur . |
| 14 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |