Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] as i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cool water is around my ankles as I sit on the bank , basking in the warm sunshine . |
| 2 | Come down and snooze in a garden when I am a dragon , an ocean-lurking , sky-flying free dragon ; when the mother wind that keeps the world spinning caresses my scales as I fly across the moon and bring warnings and hopes to the fiery heart of the world ; when I can dance aloft at dawn , so that the rising sun turns my every scale to a pure diamond and the tides and rhythms of the oceans slow down in delight . |
| 3 | I smile at Ma and my sister as I totter towards the compost heap beyond the garden shed . |
| 4 | Such stories come creeping into my mind as I sit on set at Arsenio Hall 's Paramount studio , watching Soul II Soul rehearse . |
| 5 | All kinds of thoughts raced through my mind as I waited for the explosion in our midst . |
| 6 | For example , that the images that I now call up in my mind as I look at the front door of my house , this is something quite real , but it 's real in a much more radically different , in a radically different sense , there 's a , somehow a radically difference in the kind of reality which that image enjoys , to the reality that that bottle enjoys . |
| 7 | Images of animals huddled together for warmth , safety and companionship floated into my mind as I stood at the side of this man , watching him examine firearms . |
| 8 | Jeff Richer had choreographed the salacious routine , which began with me oozing down a cat-walk in a long black velvet evening coat and sliding it off my shoulders as I turn to camera revealing the lace gown . |
| 9 | The smell of burning plastic stayed in my nose and the bright glare of the burning mixture danced in my eyes as I hurried to the next hole , glancing at my watch as I did so . |
| 10 | In my child 's brain he crashed at my feet as I walked through a strange city . |
| 11 | It was what they used to call a " banger " and it exploded at my feet as I hurried along the dark passage in answer to the door bell 's ring , making me leap into the air in terror . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ It was very emotional for me and I had a tear in my eye as I came across the line . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ It was very emotional for me and I had a tear in my eye as I came across the line . |
| 14 | But a large plate of bread slices , nearly invisible beneath a glossy coating of dark red jam , caught my eye as I walked past their stall . |
| 15 | It was irksome being trapped in my body as I wanted to be on the roof , in the rose bower , by the lake , in the woods , on the hills and in the valley simultaneously . |
| 16 | There was a chandelier directly overhead , and a thousand little tingles of pain edged back into my head as I looked into it . |
| 17 | Important items of equipment have mysteriously gone missing : a headtorch , which was on my head as I returned to the car at the end of a Wasdale winter expedition but was nowhere to be found when I arrived back home ; or the key , map and information to a hut in Wales for which my club had recently gained reciprocal rights — all three items vanished between locking up the hut on our departure and arriving back home in South Cumbria . |
| 18 | To see this , look at the payoff matrix and imagine the thoughts that might go through my head as I play against you . |
| 19 | I , too , began to fear for my life as I stooped over the lavatory bowl . |
| 20 | I have never felt so unhappy in my life as I did on that short airlift to Dibrugarh , leaving Burma almost entirely in the hands of the Japanese , and knowing how many hundreds of people were stranded on the railway line below Myitkyina . |
| 21 | I never wanted my Mum so much in my life as I did at that moment . |
| 22 | I headed for the tube station at Baker Street and turned down my collar as I came into the Marylebone Road . |
| 23 | Sheffield , like Rome , is built on seven hills and I had to cross most of them , anger fuelling my journey as I thought of all the excuses I 'd swallowed . |
| 24 | As I stood and gazed at the now empty slit trenches , I could n't help a sinking feeling in my stomach as I pictured in my mind those who had occupied the trenches in this orchard , those who had been killed or seriously wounded . |
| 25 | I can not tell you my thoughts as I sat on the stand and watched the Arsenal playing far below their proper form . |
| 26 | I called over my shoulder as I trotted towards the car . |
| 27 | A quiver of anguish passed along my spine as I came to the last dish . |
| 28 | I felt the heat hit my face as I stared through the opening with narrowed eyes . |
| 29 | I hope they will never feel as frustrated with their parents as I felt with mine . |
| 30 | She was alone in the house and she turned her head as I walked into the kitchen . |