Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun sg] as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked up at the bedroom window as I closed the door behind me . |
| 2 | Sun streams into the upstairs room as I step gingerly through a maze of wires and find a corner to sit in amidst the jungle of electronic equipment . |
| 3 | Again we 're saving the inheritance tax as I mentioned . |
| 4 | Two middle-aged women are busily spraying and scrubbing the telephone booth as I approach . |
| 5 | I need to know the wiring for the Nato socket as I intend to use it for towing my caravan , but will need to alter the wiring to suit or obtain another Nato plug and add the 12n/12s plugs to this . |
| 6 | Eliot with particular reference to The Waste Land as I recall . ’ |
| 7 | He turned to the back seat as I swung under the arch and headed towards the Baños del Inca . |
| 8 | The greenbelt boundary as I mentioned earlier as proposed by the County Council is very tightly drawn , excluding the sites which have been mentioned which our allocated , there is no land between the edge of the urban area and the proposed greenbelt boundary and that does seem to us , continues to seem to us er not an appropriate way forward . |
| 9 | The light of dawn was beginning to brighten the Alaska sky as I settled into the cockpit of the U.S. fighter aircraft ; ‘ Deemy ’ was in the pilot-seat as we took off into , as our American hosts would say , ‘ the wild blue yonder ’ ! |
| 10 | Taff was sitting on the grass just outside the trench , cleaning the Bren gun as I approached . |
| 11 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
| 12 | I started searching around the shower area as I had planned earlier and immediately heard a signal indicating a quarter-sized coin , 3in down . |
| 13 | Troops and supplies were crossing the Benouville bridge as I approached the café . |
| 14 | Siegfried stalked around the calf house as I had done and when he returned his face was expressionless . |
| 15 | Tired and hungry I gave the head Pooh-Bah a rap with the wrong end of the feather duster as I passed . |
| 16 | Essential to the notion of the market process as I have described it is the acquisition of market information through the experience of market participation . |
| 17 | In March , I had a week of sustained psychological warfare with a heron : it would hunch on the garage roof as I left for work , and I could well imagine the thoughts of piscicide running through its reptilian brain . |
| 18 | As the speed builds through 200 knots I feel the increased pitch sensitivity , my bottom lifting from the parachute pack as I press the twin pitots on this tiny nose further towards the gleaming layer of snowy stratocumulus below . |