Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As someone said at the time , ‘ I could believe him guilty of grievous bodily harm , but not grievous bodily charm . ’ |
| 2 | He stopped speaking as someone knocked at the door . |
| 3 | But while you 're doing that , I 'm trying to get the wages made up for — ’ began Josh , then exploded irritably as someone knocked at the office door : ‘ What is it now ? ’ |
| 4 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 5 | It 's added a certain anticipation as well to the placement job I 've been doing — ‘ Oh come on someone must have something to say ’ was a regular feeling/thought as I looked at the monitor in anticipation . |
| 6 | Something clicked as I looked at the number . |
| 7 | Paul was trying to catch fish in a pool as I looked at the thing . |
| 8 | As I announced at the end of the trial , I am immediately doing two things . |
| 9 | As I waited at the King 's Stairs for my boat back to Venturous I was approached by two very splendidly attired and heavily braided Merchant Service Officers whom I had noticed staring at me curiously during the reception . |
| 10 | As I stared at the German with the white flag , I remembered ( as no doubt the five Frenchmen lying beside me also remembered ) a short time ago in Amfreville a small party of Germans had surrendered and , as the Commando patrol approached , one of the Germans had lobbed a grenade , killing and wounding several members of the patrol . |
| 11 | As I stared at the display , the reflections of myself and Mr Broadhurst in the plate-glass window came into focus as well , imposed over the vista . |
| 12 | Sarah 's bellowing voice shouting ‘ Go for it ’ as I wait at the top of a World Cup Course and Rob 's quiet and steady presence epitomise their deep enthusiasm for the sport . |
| 13 | As I wait at the traffic lights I find myself crying ; I realise it is not for Hilda but for him . |
| 14 | In this respect , however , the distinctions that are made resemble many others in political science which , as I noted at the beginning of this chapter , frequently emerge out of the dominant political concerns of the age . |
| 15 | It is , as I noted at the time , a peculiar fact that most laymen who have had responsibility for the health service have interested themselves personally to a preponderant extent in the case of the mentally afflicted , both the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped . |
| 16 | As I wrote at the time , though the error may appear small , any error is significant given the close tolerances of FI cars . |
| 17 | Quite honestly , as I wrote at the time , ‘ if my waters could have broken , they would have broken ’ . |
| 18 | As I wrote at the time , I was not surprised . |
| 19 | As I said at the top of the article , making movies — in AWI 's parlance — is so similar to making a cartoon using traditional methods that it could well be used as a training ground for animators in the traditional industry , but with a much shorter wait before the results can be seen . |
| 20 | An interim care order gives more flexibility to the plaintiffs as well as the other advantages of a care order and although , as I said at the outset , one rarely interferes with an interim order , in the present case I am less disinclined to interfere because of the initial invalidity of part of the order made by the justices . |
| 21 | So I would simply suggest that , erm , on the two motions , er President , as I said at the outset , that we would support three nine seven , and in view of the fact that three nine eight is not withdrawn , the C E C would ask you to oppose three nine eight . |
| 22 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 23 | As I said at the outset , spending plans in Scotland are 8.1 per cent . |
| 24 | As I said at the outset , the scheme that the Bill introduces forms part of a positive and collaborative response from the Government and the lending institutions . |
| 25 | As I said at the beginning , copyright is rather a dull subject . |
| 26 | As I said at the beginning , Confucius , that grand old Chinese philosopher , had it right : treat others in the way that you would like them to treat you and everyone ends up much happier . |
| 27 | As I said at the beginning , there is no one true way to play Warhammer . |
| 28 | The aim of the course is to provide advice and information but as I said at the beginning to get you talking about it . |
| 29 | Nor is it yet the whole truth ; presenting the experiments in the way I have chosen , as I said at the beginning of this chapter , has been a logical way to tell a story , even if a story not yet adequately grounded in theory . |
| 30 | As I said at the beginning of this essay , the only way in which I can fulfil my interest is to work : — and so I do . |