Example sentences of "as i [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As much as I hate comparative reviews — I can never really justify deifying one package at the expense of several other perfectly good packages — WSWIN has facilities that I find to be very attractive and useful . |
| 2 | If they carry on confounding chronology in this mendacious manner , they are likely to hit 30 as I reach 60 . |
| 3 | As I take this bread and drink this wine , I am affirming to men , and to angels and to demons , that I believe Jesus Christ died for me , and I identify myself with him in his sacrifice for me . |
| 4 | She sat facing me : calm , sympathetic , but at a distance I had no way of negotiating , as I listened dismayed to what she revealed of those islands , that lost continent . |
| 5 | My guilt feels less as I remember that . |
| 6 | Yes , I mean , I think as far as I remember last spring was a good one was n't it ? |
| 7 | Each individual aspect of dogdom has now become a complete science and discipline ; indeed , as I pen this foreword , a working party comprising the leading authorities on all aspects of dogs are compiling a nationally recognizable qualification allied to the ‘ City and Guilds ’ degree . |
| 8 | I sighed heavily as I looked first at one and then at the other while we made our slow way down the main street , past Woolworth and the traffic lights . |
| 9 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 10 | As long as I get good erm GCSE 's . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | But I know enough about myself to know that as long as I get eight hours sleep I 'm alright ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Oh so as I get another chance then ? |
| 15 | All I want is some friends , but as soon as I get some real good friends they go off and leave me . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I will pay you back , I promise , as soon as I get payed , I give you the money back . |
| 18 | I 'll get better at this as I get more practice . |
| 19 | ‘ I used not to , my dear , but I find that I 'm feeling the cold as I get older . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They seem to get worse as I get older . |
| 22 | I hope that , as I get older , what I write becomes more mature and more universal , so I can tackle these things . |
| 23 | As I get older I find myself tormented by anxieties of this nature , the anxieties about things one will never do . |
| 24 | ‘ As I get older I think more and more of my stomach , and I 'm not ashamed to admit it . |
| 25 | As I get older I get more sceptical . |
| 26 | Will I mellow towards the idea of marriage as I get older ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | As soon as I sell this I can get one . |
| 29 | I not only feel it to be the most relevant magazine to the industry I work in — the consumer finance sector — but have also found the appointments section excellent , especially as I secured new employment through it after being made redundant . |
| 30 | it follows from this that ‘ it is characteristic of all unproductive labourers that they are at my command … only to the same extent as I exploit productive labourers … however , my power to employ productive labourers by no means grows in the same proportion as I employ unproductive labourers , but on the contrary diminishes in the same proportion . ’ |