Example sentences of "[v-ing] as you [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men were in great form , however , singing and shouting ; and you could not help laughing as you watched them remove certain attractive articles from the stalls of the street vendors . |
| 2 | This allows your sleeves to be knitted , weaving as you go , without your having to consider any shaping at the sides . |
| 3 | The whole idea of WYSIWYG is that you can see changes happening as you do things . |
| 4 | And thousands of people are dying as you read this as a result . |
| 5 | You 're listening as you approach the bathroom door . |
| 6 | You keep shouting as you move offstage still pulling the load . |
| 7 | Surely you know that , living as you do with a child-woman ? |
| 8 | I know the strain has been great because operating as you do entails the most constant vigilance and cunning which no other troops are called upon to display . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ She 's wonderful , ’ Edward said , his voice warm , ‘ looking as you did , she would have been justified in turning you in . |
| 10 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 11 | Let's say your friend misinterpreted your motive for acting as you did . |
| 12 | However , if you feel progress is too slow , you need to make slight adjustments to your food and exercise programme to get it going as you want it . |
| 13 | Instead of doing the usual reach-fall-reach , choose a point a few hundred metres upwind as a target to sail to , then you can concentrate solely on gybing as you work your way back downwind . |
| 14 | ‘ You were limping as you came across Ana 's room and I would think you probably came off worst in this adventure . ’ |
| 15 | He pointed out the importance of having both long and short term memory — ‘ you do n't want to clutter up your brain with information that is irrelevant long term ’ , he said , giving as an example the way you would look at traffic approaching as you crossed a street — you need to recall the situation for only a few seconds . |
| 16 | You can feel the leg muscles really hardening as you pedal hard up a hill . |
| 17 | If you can not remember the details and do not have the relevant piece of paper in front of you , you may find yourself floundering as you try to answer a question you have not really understood . |
| 18 | If none of these works , you can always try throttling your interlocutor , crying as you do so : ‘ Did you know that 63 per cent of all smart-ass know-alls meet a violent and hideous end ? ’ |
| 19 | Was getting into RADA an audition process that you enjoyed , coming as you did straight from school . |
| 20 | You may also cringe a little at your conclusion , knowing as you do that the correctness of the electro-weak theory has been essentially verified by the observation of neutral-current processes as well as by the discovery of the and particles . |
| 21 | For volume , simply dry your hair upside down and grab handfuls at the roots , scrunching as you dry . |
| 22 | Do not knit too quickly or you will find that you are racking as you knit , which will break or damage the needles . |
| 23 | Try energy breathing as you walk : breathe in through the nostrils counting 1 to 8 then out through the mouth counting 1 to 8 . |
| 24 | It enables you as the writer to tell the reader just as much of what your detective is thinking as you want to . |
| 25 | It is not difficult — though may be expensive — to hire a guide for a day ( or a week ) so that you find the best snow available at each time of the day and each season , whether it has n't snowed for a week or is blizzarding as you start the day . |
| 26 | ‘ Ah well , seeing as you ask , I 'm Norman . |
| 27 | Seeing as you 've no maid of your own , Miss . ’ |
| 28 | They 're actually saying , can you please , seeing as you 've got this money for youth , help us keep the job going . |
| 29 | Cos I said seeing as you 've got to go into town tomorrow |
| 30 | I 'd leave them on , might as well , seeing as you like wearing them |