Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , as soon as I realized I stopped . |
| 2 | As I looked I was sure that I saw Boris , my bear , wink at me . |
| 3 | So as soon as I get I 'll I 'll let you know . |
| 4 | At the ship 's office I was informed that Sir George Clerk , the British Ambassador , had sent a message that as soon as I landed I was to call on him at the Embassy . |
| 5 | As I relaxed I took a look around to see what was going down , just as we pulled away from the lights and turned left . |
| 6 | The next day , although I sprayed the pests , as I knew I must , I stood at arm 's length from the compost heap and wore jeans and high-rise trainers . |
| 7 | ‘ So far as I knew I had attended to every trifling detail , yet every plan , every hope , seemed to be going wrong . |
| 8 | So far as I knew I covered the area around my bowels , liver , one kidney and all the other bits and pieces that make up a living abdomen . |
| 9 | ( This evening — as I knew I would and could — I coaxed and bullied him , and he wrote out a cheque for a hundred pounds , which he 's promised to send off tomorrow . |
| 10 | I was so disgusted with myself that I wanted to make myself suffer even more when I did — as I knew I would — break my word . |
| 11 | ‘ There was a lot of pressure to make that birdie as I knew I was near the cut , ’ said Ballesteros , who is battling to emerge from a spell of wretched form . |
| 12 | So , it was , it was , I , a as soon as I knew I 'd be teaching this I thought the only way |
| 13 | As I dial I become aware of the emptiness of the building beneath me , like a great abandoned liner . |
| 14 | That would be the same rainbow as I saw I think . |
| 15 | As I left I asked Marcus to remove his dark glasses so I could look at his face . |
| 16 | British Aluminium own the land , and as soon as I realised I would have to trespass with a car , my imagination started its fevered travail . |
| 17 | After we all clambered off the bus and entered the school I started to become a bit more relaxed as I realised I was n't the only person there who had butterflies as big as eagles in their stomachs . |
| 18 | As soon as I realised I told him it must stop , but the next thing I knew he was spouting the same fiction to a reporter . ’ |
| 19 | I was suddenly really upset as I thought I may never feel the baby moving inside me any more . |
| 20 | I called , got through and spoke to a man who sounded as ordinary and as sane as I thought I was . |
| 21 | I was in love with her , as much in love as I thought I was capable of being . |
| 22 | I find I am not as pleased by this as I thought I might be . |
| 23 | ‘ I was not as surprised as I thought I was going to be ’ , he said eventually , ‘ to hear myself pronounced clinically dead ! ’ |
| 24 | Well , the thing I mainly notice when last week when Paul was home , not last week , the week before last I had Paul solidly at home , he moved himself entirely in lock , stock and barrel at the weekend , he was then with me waiting for his job and he went out every day and did little bit 's of shopping for me , got him from under my feet , saved me money , cos I was only buying what I absolutely needed , and the amount of time that I had , I mean I was able to go out for the whole day with Peggy on Wednesday , I was able to get food prepared and , admittedly I did n't manage to get as much done as I thought I was going to do , but then I think that 's with most people in life , |
| 25 | I 'm tired this morning , but not as tired as I thought I would be considering two nights out . |
| 26 | In fact at one stage I thought this lack of drama might make poor reading , however , as I progressed I realised that the Club 's story was a neat piece of social-history entwined with personalities and tested by problems . |
| 27 | ‘ I came over as I said I would , ’ Susan smiled at Maggie . |
| 28 | ‘ I must apologize , ’ he began , ‘ for not coming in to see you this morning , as I said I would . |
| 29 | And erm so that the campaign was working on two levels one to persuade women that they did n't have to take time off from working in factories , at certain times of the month and another to persuade women to use erm internal sanitary protection and as I said I will explain why later it comes into another section . |
| 30 | What she was doing is she was talking as a person who 's got a genuine love of the theatre as we all have that 's what were doing here looking for solutions now can I 'm I 'm as I said I 'm not assassinating your character now but you 're being very intimidating in the way that your talking to people . . |