Example sentences of "as [pers pn] take [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The soft , perished feel of the old washer which rubbed black on your fingers as you took it out of the tap . |
2 | He attended without wavering as she took him round to the head of the little dale , above the cottage , pointing out the hare 's field below them as they went . |
3 | Then she carried the basket to the washing line and unpegged the clothes rapidly , chucking them down in a windblown tangle ( Ella folded things as she took them out of the tumble drier . |
4 | Exactly , and as they took him back to his room , not his cell , but his room , he turned to my , my mate who was with me and said er , I do n't want an operation I like having sex with little girls , he said now I 've got two little girls and I had to turn and walk away |
5 | I read them and cried as they took me back through time , down the long bloody passageways of the last seventy-five years . |
6 | Lizzy was so far gone by this time that she just smiled at them as they took her out to the meat wagon . |
7 | and then go sa sa straight on down that road as it takes us down onto Castle Lane to then turn off for Sarah 's . |
8 | This is an interesting book even for non-Southern devotees as he takes us through from the most menial shunting operation with grimy British Rail survivors to sleek passenger workings with shiny green locomotives . |