Example sentences of "as [pers pn] get [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | As long as I get good erm GCSE 's . |
2 | yes , that 's right , yes or six , six , two , I do n't really care , as long as I get fourteen it does n't really bother me |
3 | But I know enough about myself to know that as long as I get eight hours sleep I 'm alright ’ . |
4 | I am neither , nor intend to be treated as , a paid cook or a resident and beholden domestic , especially as I get tired very easily and neither of them is working . |
5 | Oh so as I get another chance then ? |
6 | All I want is some friends , but as soon as I get some real good friends they go off and leave me . |
7 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
8 | I will pay you back , I promise , as soon as I get payed , I give you the money back . |
9 | I 'll get better at this as I get more practice . |
10 | ‘ I used not to , my dear , but I find that I 'm feeling the cold as I get older . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | They seem to get worse as I get older . |
13 | I hope that , as I get older , what I write becomes more mature and more universal , so I can tackle these things . |
14 | As I get older I find myself tormented by anxieties of this nature , the anxieties about things one will never do . |
15 | ‘ As I get older I think more and more of my stomach , and I 'm not ashamed to admit it . |
16 | As I get older I get more sceptical . |
17 | Will I mellow towards the idea of marriage as I get older ? |
18 | 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 . |
19 | It did n't seem quite the same , anyway , as I got bigger . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | You got it same time as I got that one , that 's last year 's card that we 've got . |
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 | Both places had latches and as long as I got ten yards ' start on him , I could slam the door shut and slip my half clothes-peg under the latch — I always carried a half clothes-peg for the purpose — and no matter how much he blasphemed and kicked at the door he could n't get in . |
24 | I guaranteed a starting price so long as I got last refusal — he was auctioning the piece . |
25 | My grandmother would give orders to the eldest and these would be passed down — as I got older I found this particularly galling ! |
26 | As I got older , about seven or eight , I was allowed to go to the park on my own . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | But , having said that , as I got older and spent more time with my father I began to learn more about him . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |