Example sentences of "[noun] as i come [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He jumped to his feet as I came in . |
| 2 | It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent . |
| 3 | " I saw your little friend as I came here , " she whispered in my ear . |
| 4 | Poppy 's words keep coming back to me : " I saw your little friend as I came here … |
| 5 | I scanned the street for lurking strangers as I came near , and no one was there . |
| 6 | Vern actually looked up from his last bite of bread roll as I came back in . |
| 7 | About Peter Fleming , I saw him walking down Romney Road as I came here . ’ |
| 8 | The safe was open , and the two books were on father 's desk with the cardboard box , and he was just taking the lid off the box as I came in . ’ |
| 9 | I was looking at the garden as I came in , I thought I might have , even though I did n't know the number |
| 10 | There is quite a lot of activity as I come over the hill . |
| 11 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 12 | The sugar was only fifty nine in the market as I came past at Charlie 's you know , I thought well I 'll get some of that and I got those jumbo eggs there , only a pound a dozen big ones , you know You done ? |
| 13 | ‘ It 's just that he was passing the house as I came in and he looked at me really strangely . |
| 14 | I saw his boat in the basin as I came along this morning . |