Example sentences of "as he [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Goscelin 's account of the translation of the relics of St Mildred from Thanet to St Augustine 's Canterbury , written in the late eleventh century , Cnut went to Canterbury as he was setting out for Rome and promised that he would allow the translation if he returned safely . |
| 2 | It occurred to him as he was crashing about in the cupboard among his own old mackintoshes , tennis racquets , gum boots , and broken picture frames that he might be doing the wrong thing . |
| 3 | ‘ Caused as he was floating along like Ophelia ? ’ |
| 4 | As he was coming out of the anaesthetic following brain surgery , a reporter from " The Sunday Sport " gained access to his hospital room and purported to interview him . |
| 5 | She intercepted Dieter just as he was emerging on to the terrace . |