Example sentences of "[noun] as [pron] walk " in BNC.
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| 31 | I wished I had a boat as we walked down the steps , through the gate and the hundred yards or so to her door . |
| 32 | The girl was grabbed from behind and dragged into bushes as she walked through an estate in Milton Keynes , Bucks . |
| 33 | ‘ Lord , our Mass is over , ’ the choir sang in sweet , lilting voices as everyone walked down the hill into town once more . |
| 34 | Leonora turned her back on the past , bracing herself against the wind as she walked briskly towards the spot where the cliff path began its decent to Seal Haven . |
| 35 | He beamed with pleasure as she walked in . |
| 36 | She recognised Peter because he was carrying a rolled-up copy of the Standard and because his eyes lit with appreciation as she walked in . |
| 37 | He left his office , nodded to Bourne as he walked down the hall , and called , ‘ I 'm going out . ’ |
| 38 | Police are hunting a man who raped a fourteen year old girl as she walked home late at night . |
| 39 | THE jury in the Teeside Crown Court trial of two men accused of attacking a 17-year-old girl as she walked home after a night out is expected to reach a verdict today . |
| 40 | Even in the twenty minutes it had taken to get some nourishment , the light had faded and the dull day was darkening into a cold night ; the beginnings of a frost crackled under their feet as they walked briskly along the embankment . |
| 41 | The wet ground pulled at our feet as we walked . |
| 42 | In my child 's brain he crashed at my feet as I walked through a strange city . |
| 43 | He was weak and found it difficult to pick up his feet as he walked . |
| 44 | The ground was already thick with frost which crunched beneath his feet as he walked . |
| 45 | He is a middle-aged man who drags his feet as he walks . |
| 46 | The place was obviously an informal car park , the grass worn away and dust stirring beneath her feet as she walked . |
| 47 | looked down at her feet as she walked , finally admitted , a little ashamedly , that it was all true ; " I was wild , " she agreed in her slow , low voice , nodding , Graham felt a sort of ache then , as he had when Slater first told him ; he wanted to have known her then , to have been a part of her life during that time . |
| 48 | The landlord of the Commercial Hotel gave him a nod as he walked through the door . |
| 49 | She had watched from the window as they walked down the jetty , anxious as a mother sending her children off on their first day at school . |
| 50 | The Christian neglect of the gods , indeed the propensity of the more militant to hiss in disapproval as they walked by a temple , offended polytheists , who feared that heaven would not be propitious : floods , plagues , famines , earthquakes were sent by angry spirit-powers who had not been placated with the customary offerings . |
| 51 | The whole corridor had a black patina that stuck to the soles of her shoes as she walked on it , cigarettes smeared in spilt liquor with the occasional squashed sandwich mashed in . |
| 52 | Sometimes they journeyed alone , sometimes in groups , singing psalms as they walked . |
| 53 | All they had done was to pick ears of corn as they walked along , rub them in their hands and eat the grain . |
| 54 | While the rest of the inhabitants are in bed , citizens ' patrols keep the peace — groups of 15 men in cowboy hats , holding aloft the ragged blue-and-white national flag as they walk the cobbled streets . |
| 55 | Mark slipped an arm around her slim waist as they walked from the hall into the kitchen . |
| 56 | She left the interview-room , straining against the grip Luke kept on her waist as they walked out into the courtyard . |
| 57 | She 'd been playing tennis , and was swinging her racquet as she walked . |
| 58 | At the hotel I paid him in cash with a bonus and sent him on his way , and was in time to see Filmer 's backview receding into a dark-looking bar as I walked into the big central hall lobby . |
| 59 | As the pair reached the bottom he saw that she was , as Eleanor had said , very thin , but he noticed the same rhythm in her movements as she walked across the cove . |
| 60 | Open pastureland succeeded the neglected wood as I walked on , and soon I came to a rough circle of boulders on a mound — Lisheen , the little fort , home of fairies . |