Example sentences of "and [verb] as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just to set the scene and seeing as I have n't been in the plot too much lately . |
| 2 | And seeing as I have n't got an account with them I do n't think they 'll say well you can have some anyway . |
| 3 | When she left I was free to stay and paint as I pleased . |
| 4 | I ask for , and receive as I have asked . |
| 5 | I want her to talk to me , to tell me stories about her as a little girl , to play with me and look as I play , but she drifts off into herself . |
| 6 | After six sessions I was ready for the test , driving from Eaton Park , on all types of roads , sticking religiously to speed limits and observing as I drove . |
| 7 | Here the composition may unfold and develop as I work . |
| 8 | Wes followed me and watched as I opened the boot and laid Duke gently on top of my black working coat . |
| 9 | But my efforts at poking her rear end were fruitless ; she faced me all the time , wide-mouthed and growling as I circled . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And if a boy did … well , I 've the knowledge here ’ ( and he tapped his head ) ‘ of where that boy comes from and where there 's brothers and sisters a-plenty to take in his place and use as I used Squit and the others before him . |
| 12 | Bowyer 's and Southgate 's conversation about the coming hunt faltered and died as I went to stand and warm my backside against the fire . |
| 13 | Yes , you shall come , if you 'll be ruled and do as I bid you . |
| 14 | Obviously parents must show a degree of control here and do as I do by restricting playing time , although that is admittedly difficult with all these portable devices now on the market . |
| 15 | He looked at me hard , realized I was being honest , and did as I asked . |
| 16 | I sat and cried as I thought of the danger to Elizabeth . |
| 17 | I checked the flotsam and jetsam as I swept over it , but there was nothing interesting-looking , nothing worth salvaging , just an old jellyfish , a purple mass with four pale rings inside . |
| 18 | They were changing their shape and form as I did so , and some , the McEnroes of the plot , were becoming very ugly indeed in their behaviour . |
| 19 | In 1984 the final phase of the black majority 's struggle for democracy in white-dominated South Africa began , and continues as I write . |