Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think of one lady I am counselling as I write this . |
| 2 | I am writing as I disagree with various comments made in an article entitled A Pair of Glasses … by Linda Lewis , as I feel that it gave Indian Glassfish a very negative press . |
| 3 | The other question , however , as to what exactly I am supposed to be doing as I sit here , is plainly still a live issue — which is the reason for this intolerably circumstantial disquisition . |
| 4 | Yes Mr Chairman erm I understand the motive behind this proposal resolution but I think the mover perhaps is unaware of what 's actually going on and have to decide and so I would like to speak against this resolution and I think the constructive thing to do so we do n't send the wrong messages would be to er I , I will move an amendment er and I will explain what I 'm doing as I speak . |
| 5 | I 'm crying as I write this because we might have been able to save her . |
| 6 | My hands were shaking as I got into the raft for the second time . |
| 7 | This is all realistic and is happening as I think it would if small boys were alone on an island . |
| 8 | But now My heart is breaking as I see the crumbling mess , |
| 9 | My hand is shaking as I write . |
| 10 | The phone is ringing as I come through the door of my office . |
| 11 | The phone is ringing as I fumble with the key , my bladder is bursting and as I fall into the room I 'm undecided which call to answer first . |
| 12 | What I am feeling as I listen to this is a strange movement in the undergrowth immediately in front of me ; a smile spreading inside my beard … |
| 13 | ‘ I knew something was happening as I got to the hospital steps . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That was the real reason I was sweating as I went to bed that night . |
| 16 | The evening sky was darkening as I made my way up to Claro . |
| 17 | I was shaking as I crossed the room … |
| 18 | My hand was shaking as I tried to imagine just how I would perform the robbery . |
| 19 | I had already loosened the overcoat and was thinking as I looked at him , This very minute you are going on the longest journey a man ever takes and you have n't a frigging clue . |
| 20 | But Clare was ten thousand miles away , I was thinking as I woke up , while Toma made fresh coffee and cooked me a man-sized breakfast of local bacon-cum-ham and two of the island 's tiny eggs . |
| 21 | I noticed I was humming as I tidied my things ; a little hymn ; ‘ Green Hill Far Away , ’ as it happened . |
| 22 | My heat was pounding as I began to count the strokes of the church clock . |