Example sentences of "as [conj] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | If we play as well as that I do n't see why we ca n't finish them off . |
2 | At any rate the effect was the same as if I had n't written at all . |
3 | But by by the same token , as as I 've already set out in in my submission , we we believe there is an urgent need and a justifiable demand in Selby District and that 's partly related to the need to have a distribution of available employment opportunities throughout the district . |
4 | But basically turning to the Selby situation erm I mean here here we have a district that does n't have any areas of acknowledged national or landscape im importance at all but as as I mentioned previously that 's not to say that there are n't valuable areas of countryside within the district and areas which to use use the words of of P P G advice are valued by the people that live and and work in the district and and also by visitors . |
5 | Same thing as as I mentioned before . |
6 | It had even been easy following them from the racecourse , as when I went out to where my driver had parked his car I had a clear view from a distance of Daffodil at the exit gate being spooned into a royal blue Rolls-Royce by Filmer and her chauffeur . |
7 | I rather wondered whether she drinks , as when I went in in the morning there was a large bottle of beer on the table . |
8 | But as I say I cope alright with them and as I say Doctor , I always seem as though I wake up with one , do you |
9 | Yes and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said . |
10 | Yes , and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said , you know , I just do n't see anybody , I said well of course you were working on Mondays , you see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and , we , we could talk , but that 's gone and I said I ca n't run in at half past five when you get home from school and chat to you because Ned will be coming home at six and I do n't want to be there all that often when he 's there erm its you know , its just happened and I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away then Fen Lane . |
11 | I mean some people are looking at me as though I 've just revealed some dread secret |
12 | Too late in the day because all the hotels are full and I end up tramping round in the dark , lugging my pack and money ( cash , a great wad of hard currency ) , nervous of the hatchet-faced youths who watch me meandering round , concentrating so intently on making it look as though I know exactly where I 'm heading that I soon have no idea where I am on the mapless streets of Algiers . |
13 | ‘ Aye , ’ I nodded slowly , hoping to content her with this , then looked away and up to one side as though I had just found something very interesting and important to look at on the ceiling . |
14 | Richard said , carrying on his own monologue as though I had n't spoken . |
15 | No , well I mean , it were n't as though I had n't put a payment in it were just that it probably was this taking Tracey 's book and I marked it onto Tracey 's , er , Tracey 's book . |
16 | Billingsley rephrased his insolent question as though I had not understood the first version . |
17 | ‘ Werry busy , sir , ’ Bonefish went on as though I had not spoken . |
18 | He became angry , as though I had personally betrayed him by not giving him a boy . ’ |
19 | I want it to be as though I had never been . |
20 | I want it to be as though I had never taken that turning . |
21 | As though I had never been . |
22 | Like as though I had never left … |
23 | Spellbound , I drove upwards into the bright splendour , staring through the windscreen as though I had never seen it all before ; the bronze of the dead bracken spilling down the grassy Banks of the hills , the dark smudges of trees , the grey farmhouses and the endless pattern of wails creeping to the heather above . |
24 | Often I felt so full after eating that I had to lie down or drag myself to lectures , feeling as though I 'd just eaten three Christmas dinners . |
25 | you once asked as though I 'd just begun |
26 | My head shook as though I 'd just knocked back some hundred-proof whisky . |
27 | It feels as though I do n't care |
28 | erm , erm feel like they 're getting the benefit again , again and again , you now make the costs of at every point they take another , they 've got more coming in , erm in terms of cash and er at every point I seem to loose , I loose the first case in ninety one and everything now seems to go against me , it seems as though I do n't stand a chance any more . |
29 | As though I did not exist ; as though it were an automaton who cleared brambles and counted magpies . |
30 | He runs the whole organization as though I did n't exist . ’ |