Example sentences of "as i [vb past] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as I came back down this mucky road from the High Street , which , as you know , can be a pretty depressing trek home especially if you 're tired , it all seemed bright somehow , and welcoming . |
| 2 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 3 | And as I walked on past those unused bedrooms , Miss Kenton 's figure , a silhouette against a window within one of them , had called to me . |
| 4 | As I walked out of another final-year class at fox Primary , the pupils were building complex models out of balsawood or working on the theories of gearing with big pieces of plastic Meccano . |
| 5 | As I tutted disparagingly at each new display , my senses were suddenly arrested by an overpowering and delightful smell of gently sizzling bacon . |
| 6 | How longingly I recalled that other bed , with Sophocles beside it and Mary in it , as I camped out on unsavoury sacks among the dregs of humanity who were my new companions ! |
| 7 | Then suddenly I got a bit more confidence , I felt better about my weight , my husband encouraged me as I started out in various career directions , and goals actually began to emerge . |
| 8 | And as soon as I faced up to that , I realised my fears no longer applied . ’ |
| 9 | Coming as I did directly from higher education , I had expected to be treated as an adult and be allowed to explore my own educational needs during my three year RGN training , undertaken a few years ago . |
| 10 | And I began to discover some recent local history as I delved deeper into this pit of hell . |
| 11 | " Watch that one , " they said as I sat down on one of the armchairs , " the seat falls through . " |