Example sentences of "me as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too quickly , for my mother looked at me as I put them on the table . |
| 2 | ‘ I do not , ’ she said and pushed at me as I put the tea down . |
| 3 | Motes of mica glittered in the beams that bathed me as I searched the rock above for clues . |
| 4 | In his Life he made William X of Aquitaine protest against Louis 's meddling in the Auvergne , with the words : ‘ If the count of Auvergne has committed any fault , it is my duty to present him at your court on your order , because he holds the Auvergne of me as I hold it of you . ’ |
| 5 | They caught me as I came through the lounge door . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's dead , I know ! ’ he called to me as I came closer . |
| 7 | There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch . |
| 8 | As ever , little was done to conceal anything from me as I went in and out of the various rooms in which these gentlemen sat deep in discussion , and I thus could not avoid gaining a certain impression of the general mood at this stage of the proceedings . |
| 9 | Several people nodded and smiled at me as I went past , so I had no inkling of what was going to happen . |
| 10 | Maybe it had some bearing on Uncle Fred 's last words to me as I went off to do my National Service in the army . |
| 11 | The stink of the place hit me as I went in . |
| 12 | I asked him if he had any advice for me as I went to Rhodesia . |
| 13 | All the servants knew my name and pointed at me as I passed them . |
| 14 | On the way I passed the rabbit I thought had escaped , lying just before the sparkling clean water of the stream ; blackened and contorted , locked into a weird , twisted crouch , its dead dry eyes staring up at me as I passed by , accusatory . |
| 15 | Awe of a different order touched me as I observed the intimidatingly sybaritic cafés lining the avenue , and I was almost overcome with a crise de nerfs when attempting to cross at Etoile . |
| 16 | ‘ You would n't have thought so if you 'd heard him shouting after me as I ran away , ’ Sarah said . |
| 17 | This was a joy for me as I had puzzled often on the jumble of tops visible from the A82 and in the mass of high peaks this area contains . |
| 18 | I enjoyed Richard who was a casual , almost brutal lover , his desire rising and spending itself as impatiently as mine , so that I did not have to suffer all that tedious , preliminary business of fondling and stroking , and I enjoyed my baby , which surprised me as I had not expected to . |
| 19 | They began with Haydn 's Cello Concerto , which was a pleasant surprise for me as I had heard the piece only a week or two before at a concert of Mozart and Haydn 's music featuring Camerata and had liked the piece very much . |
| 20 | Nobody was as excited to see me as I 'd expected . |
| 21 | By now dear old Monty , resigned to losing me as I got more ambitious , had pushed my salary up to nearly £10 a week . |
| 22 | He nodded and did not follow me as I got off the train . |
| 23 | But what amazed me as I said before was their antagonism to strangers . |
| 24 | He came up to me as I shut the door . |
| 25 | The woods crowd in on me as I make my way along the ancient track . |
| 26 | Sister Paul would pretend not to see me as I hung about outside around the staffroom to see her pass by for the third time that day . |
| 27 | By the operation of sod 's law I would n't mind betting that this nice old man will turn out to be a lovely companion and will treat me as I like men to treat me . |
| 28 | A cordon of stagehands appeared from nowhere and surrounded me as I stepped out of the car . |
| 29 | There was no one around in the hall to see me as I stepped inside . |
| 30 | I had heard about the Dog Man before on my week-long journey from Kirk Yetholm towards Edale — travellers going north had told me as I journeyed south at first that the Dog Man was only three days ahead of me , then two days ahead of me , and then the final group of walkers had told me that it would n't be long before I caught him up . |