Example sentences of "as [pron] was [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 2 | I could 've come earlier cos I 've been over Tracey 's since quarter past one , as I was coming out the Jehovah Witnesses were coming out |
| 3 | Then one evening as she was tidying up the room he said as quietly as if he were taking rifle aim , ‘ There 's no need for you to go turning the whole place upside down . |
| 4 | A friend of mine recalls an occasion in her childhood , as she was walking along an ancient path , when she heard the sound of thunder from the ground : none of the friends she was with heard anything . |
| 5 | As he was scrambling up the steepest bit , pulling himself up by the bracken , he heard something . |
| 6 | Pete went over to the wagon , and as he was taking out the inventory clipboard he explained that they 'd be going down to the boat house in Diane 's pickup truck . |
| 7 | Corbett slipped and tripped as he was pushed down a flight of steep narrow steps which ran under the keep . |
| 8 | He folded it open at a page of stocks and shares , and as he was looking down the lists he gave the man two dollars . |
| 9 | He caught my astonished stare , and paused as he was jotting down the orders , glancing down at himself in apparent wonder at what I could be looking at . |
| 10 | I managed to have a brief word with the rescued pilot as he was carried on a stretcher into the ambulance . |