Example sentences of "even as i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have seen at long last that I need to be free of my beloved mistress and even as I write that word it is hollow for how can I love one who no longer has the least regard for me ? |
| 2 | Even as I write I can hear Imran Khan sighing all the way from Lahore . |
| 3 | Professor Stephen Hawking must be making a beeline to Washburn HQ even as I write ! |
| 4 | I 'm donning the sackcloth even as I write … |
| 5 | Sir , — If Asil Nadir was a Labour supporting council home dweller , standing accused of defrauding the DSS of £100 , no doubt Peter Lilley would , even as I write , be leading an SAS scratch squad to being him back to justice.DAVID MITCHELL , Woodstock , Pettaugh . |
| 6 | Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me . |
| 7 | Thanks to all of you who returned the Alumni Update questionnaires — even as I write , they are still coming in ! |
| 8 | Finally , and even as I write , new and deeper understandings of the Lorenz system are in the offing { 12 } . |
| 9 | Yet even as I remember Victoria , I feel keenly the unsettled state of my mind . |
| 10 | Mr Dobbs said : ‘ As far as I am aware the BBC want to do the sequel , and even as I speak they are discussing potential script writers . ’ |
| 11 | Even as I try to follow the interweaving , the world of childhood reasserts itself and Leeds and Yorkshire become again the centre of existence . |
| 12 | Even as I put my talons down I pulled them away , for I sensed something was wrong , but it was quicker than I and with a loud metal sound like the closing of a cage gate it sprang shut . |
| 13 | I 'm thinking there might be something wrong with my plan to wait as I close my eyes ( only to rest them ) , but even as I yawn and put my hands into my armpits I think a spot of rest is n't such a bad idea so long as I do n't fall asleep . |
| 14 | But even as I squirm free , I see his gun come round toward my face . |
| 15 | It is boring to have to say that ( it actually makes me twitch even as I do ! ) , but it is no good pretending that it works in any other way , because it simply does n't . |
| 16 | But she put it up here , I think probably to make it easier , I mean if anyone 's had , I do n't know if anyone had children in the seventies when it was the fashion to wear very long skirts , or even as I find going up and down stairs in my nightie , you 're more than likely to fall and break a leg and the baby 's neck at the same time , if you wear a long skirt . |
| 17 | Even as I snatch for weapons , whip-tendrils seize my wrists and my neck . |
| 18 | Yet even as I think it , I know it to be a ridiculous thought . |
| 19 | Even as I say it I know this is not how I wish to spend the rest of the day . |
| 20 | Even as I say it , I know my statement to be sentimental and truth to be more complex than that . |