Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned on her now , but was almost pushed aside as someone came out of the shop . |
| 2 | The door opened , and her presentiments were realised as someone moved stealthily across the carpeted floor , the narrow beam of a torch flitting over the low couch and the bureau set against the far wall . |
| 3 | As someone destroyed daily by the taunts and jeers of others he would now have the ability to destroy someone else in his turn . |
| 4 | I knew his name , and murmured it as I looked on from the supply hut , with my schnapps and my toilet paper : ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ . |
| 5 | I wondered , as I looked round at the massed ranks of chaps , young and old . |
| 6 | I felt sure that if Mr Reed had lived he would have treated me kindly , and now , as I looked round at the dark furniture and the walls in shadow , I began to fear that his ghost might come back to punish his wife for not keeping her promise . |
| 7 | As I looked round in the pale dawn light , a piece of paper caught my eye . |
| 8 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 9 | The festivities started with a parade through the town led by the Houlton Silver Band and as I looked down from the windows of our bed-sitter I could see them all gathering in the street below . |
| 10 | Then , as I looked back at the dark , inscrutable carob tree , I did feel a faint touch of fear . |
| 11 | We talked of England : and my host was so inspiring in his eloquence on the subject of what England might have achieved in friendship with Germany that , as I looked out on the twilight enshrouding the Kurfiarstendamm I could think of nothing to say but Marlowe 's famous lines : |
| 12 | However , this sensation evaporated as soon as I looked out of the window , when I realized how imprisoned I was by my ignorance , which Aisha seized upon , exploiting the fact that I did n't know how to flush the toilet , work the shower , turn on the oven or boil the electric kettle to make tea , and that I could n't understand what her older child or her next-door neighbour said . |
| 13 | I heard a noise one night , like several motorbikes roaring down the road , only it was coming from above , and as I looked out of the window there they were — three red exhausts in the sky , blinding along a parallel course a few feet above the roof tops . |
| 14 | As I looked out of the window I noticed that frost was forming on cars . |
| 15 | As I looked out of the window into the black emptiness , I wondered about the great mystery of death , and thought of Helen Burns , who was so sure her spirit would go to heaven . |
| 16 | But none of this disturbed my mind or my body as I looked across at the girl in the coffee bar . |
| 17 | As long as I get up in the morning . |
| 18 | As I get out of the second tube I see someone has been scratching letters off the sign above the door . |
| 19 | As soon as I get out of the Army . |
| 20 | snarled this sharp-faced old fellow as I stepped out of the kiosk . |
| 21 | A cordon of stagehands appeared from nowhere and surrounded me as I stepped out of the car . |
| 22 | As I stepped out of the boat and walked up the beach , I noticed that although the sun had been very hot , the air suddenly seemed cooler . |
| 23 | Philip implicitly dismisses the value of his own reflections on the ugliness of modern London with off-hand self-ironizing comments which imply that he too is a product of the intellectual dissipation he criticizes : ‘ Life , I said with startling originality as I stepped out of the bus in my mackintosh , is like that ’ ( 307 ) . |
| 24 | I got a taxi as soon as I stepped out of the back door . |
| 25 | As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona . |
| 26 | Even so , some brain cells were still working , as I stared inwardly at the nub of the problem . |
| 27 | It cheers me up as I come up in the lift and stagger out blinking in the daylight . |
| 28 | One of the most striking facts of the Commonwealth , as I saw clearly at the Commonwealth conference in Harare , is the immense affection and admiration that exists for Her Majesty the Queen among all Commonwealth leaders and countries . |
| 29 | As I gazed out of the window I could see several groups of red deer in the distance , and in the foreground the brown ferns with clumps of heather here and there ; it was a wonderful sight . |
| 30 | As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long . |