Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used not to , my dear , but I find that I 'm feeling the cold as I get older . |
| 2 | As I get older I am coming to believe that our lives are planned before we are born … things happen so fast sometimes as you look back … you can see the pattern plain as day , where you took some turn , or events happened that you had nothing to do with . |
| 3 | They seem to get worse as I get older . |
| 4 | I hope that , as I get older , what I write becomes more mature and more universal , so I can tackle these things . |
| 5 | As I get older I find myself tormented by anxieties of this nature , the anxieties about things one will never do . |
| 6 | ‘ As I get older I think more and more of my stomach , and I 'm not ashamed to admit it . |
| 7 | As I get older I get more sceptical . |
| 8 | Will I mellow towards the idea of marriage as I get older ? |
| 9 | But as I get older patience , a commodity not particularly noticeable in the past , has gradually appeared in my personality , like a sandbank silted into place by too many frothing tides . |
| 10 | For myself I knew that I should go on finding greater and greater depths in Shakespeare as I grew older , and that I should die and still not have found the bottom . |
| 11 | Denys Darlow said : ‘ Having been a church musician since the age of eight as a chorister and later as an organist and choirmaster , the words of the Te Deum became a constant recurrence in my life and grew in significance as I grew older . ’ |
| 12 | I read and read , but increasingly , as I grew older , understood very little of what I read . |
| 13 | Slowly , as I grew older , I began to move backwards , searching to place everyone . |
| 14 | As I grew older , my love for Elizabeth became stronger all the time . |
| 15 | When I was younger , probably simply because of that widespread reluctance to believe that one 's parents have sex lives of any sort , and as I grew older , because I did n't see that much of them except socially . ’ |
| 16 | Since nineteen eighty three the government has reduced financial support by over two billion pound and reduced staff by seventy thousand , resulting in less maintenance and falling safety standards and with , as I said higher fares , but fewer services . |
| 17 | Okay the so as I said earlier opening K channels will hyperpolarize the membrane . |
| 18 | As I came nearer to Lilliput , I saw the King and all his lords and ladies standing on the beach . |
| 19 | As I came nearer to the corner of the house , I heard my friends breathing loudly as they slept , and at once felt happier again . |
| 20 | It did n't seem quite the same , anyway , as I got bigger . |
| 21 | We found then that the bigger the objective lens was the more light could be got and the bigger you could make it , so as I got bigger and got er the chance of making my own lenses and building up lenses of various kinds , I found that I could get quite a good magnification . |
| 22 | Dear old Joe seemed just the same , but as I got better , he began to remember I was a gentleman , and call me sir again , and when I got up one morning , I discovered he had gone . |
| 23 | My grandmother would give orders to the eldest and these would be passed down — as I got older I found this particularly galling ! |
| 24 | As I got older , about seven or eight , I was allowed to go to the park on my own . |
| 25 | As I got older and people used to bring me injured birds to look after , I was always very careful of them and did n't approach without the leather glove I wear when working with birds of prey . |
| 26 | But , having said that , as I got older and spent more time with my father I began to learn more about him . |
| 27 | Well I did n't mind till I got a bit older , then I sort of started to kick , and er as I got older , that 's another story . |
| 28 | quite as young as that er you know but I mean er then as I got older I d I did live with me grandmother . |
| 29 | ‘ I loved dancing but as I got older I loved teaching the little ones more , ’ says Susan , a nursery nurse at Kenton Bar Primary School in Newcastle . |
| 30 | As I got older I jumped higher , as he got older he jumped lower . |