Example sentences of "as i leave " in BNC.

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1 As I left I asked Marcus to remove his dark glasses so I could look at his face .
2 As I left his office a young woman from a Polish theatre company came in to discuss with Welch the principles of controlling ‘ income streams ’ .
3 No doubt she has heard about Lovat being badly wounded during the early days of the fighting in Normandy and remembers her words to me as I left Achnacarry to join Lovat in Sussex .
4 As I left the cinema I was seized in an irresistible spasm of shivering .
5 As I left the railway station , the police warned me that there was a small demonstration against Norman Tebbit 's recent industrial relations reforms .
6 As I left the room at a trot everyone else was still pulling on shorts or even struggling with tightly knotted ties .
7 As I left my GP — he was passing me over to a surgeon — and he shook my hand and wished me luck — that in itself was a bad sign — neither the truth nor the meaning had really sunk in .
8 I used it every day in my writing and after reading the Simontons ' book Getting Well Again , had started toying with it as an anti-cancer technique almost as soon as I left hospital .
9 Just as I left the station for the bus stop , the siren went .
10 She was the first person I met when I joined the Waaf , and the last person I saw as I left it .
11 I had , as you know , trouble with my horse as soon as I left the beach ! ’
12 As I left the house in Thistle Street , I felt sad , depressed , utterly miserable .
13 In March , I had a week of sustained psychological warfare with a heron : it would hunch on the garage roof as I left for work , and I could well imagine the thoughts of piscicide running through its reptilian brain .
14 As I left ( clutching a crisp lettuce and firm , shining tomatoes ) , I thought about his previous job .
15 I finished the song and only as I left the stage did I realise I had wet myself with fear .
16 And then just as I left the stage , sobbing , I heard somebody say , ‘ Well , I do n't admire her dress-sense . ’
17 Many of them died , but as I left in September , there was a tangible improvement in the condition of those remaining .
18 I felt very humbled as I left the conqueror of Everest and the Sherpa 's most vocal mouthpiece still sipping his tea .
19 This was an ingenious wheelchair attached to the front of a bicycle ; and lastly as I left , I had a word with Stefan Sielaff from Germany , who had designed a fantastic three-wheeled single seater vehicle in fibreglass , that was catching everyone 's eye !
20 As I left the room I seemed to be in a school and I saw many children in the hall and I seemed to be late for a class .
21 As I left the room I heard the little comic bellow , " That 's what she thinks of thy relaxing clothes , ducks , and I must say I see what she means ! "
22 She gave such an unpleasant laugh with these last words that I did n't know what to say , and as I left the house I felt even more miserable .
23 As I left the peaceful sleeping village , the mist over the marshes was rising , to show me the great unknown world I was entering .
24 As I left , Estella 's lovely face looked at me in wonder , but Miss Havisham was staring at me with a mixture of pity and guilt .
25 As I left , with all speed , I noticed a sign outside the apartment building that said ‘ Beware of the Dog . ’
26 I slipped in by the cemetery gate , as I left , and he went up through the trees to the path by which he had made his way to join me .
27 It 's all exactly the same as I left it . ’
28 John turned out to be fairly wonderful himself as I left his shop on Friday afternoon clutching two nice new buoyancy aids which did score heavily over our present equipment because of their possession of quick-release harnesses .
29 As I left in early afternoon to catch the London train , I reflected that here was as large number of small businessmen who were likely to see some radical changes in the way they operated .
30 As soon as I left school I found work in the local Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura .
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