Example sentences of "[vb infin] as [pron] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not know as she smiled innocently at the flowers that behind the cigarette smoke was the cause of future sorrow in her life . |
| 2 | ‘ Toff indeed , ’ they heard Biff mutter as they filed past into the mill . |
| 3 | ‘ God love us , ’ he would mutter as he stumbled upstairs , ‘ and now would n't that be a thing ? |
| 4 | Can I assume as you did not reply to Pat Gaudin 's memo of 28 June 1993 that you want the Infosheet on Services to People with Mental Health Problems withdrawn from the Infopack ? |
| 5 | Dana darted after him but Roman did n't appear to notice her , or to hear her calling him , and she could only watch as he drove away . |
| 6 | In spite of everything the Collector felt his spirits lift as he sat down beside Lucy on a sheltered corner of the verandah and watched her making cartridges . |
| 7 | She turned in , then felt her nerves flutter as she drew up before a timber-built single-storeyed house which was backed by several small chalet-type huts , while behind them were numerous sheds . |
| 8 | At first Ronni did n't look as he headed back towards the villa . |
| 9 | I could n't look as I stood helplessly at the top of stairs listening to him bumping and thudding from step to step until he reached the bottom . |
| 10 | I knew one family where the husband hung himself facing the front door so that his body would be the first thing his wife would see as she came in . |
| 11 | Anyway the next day they were on the er if machine is not clean when I come in then I should not run as I did not run this morning for four hours as I might as well come in on Saturday morning and clean them myself So she in . |
| 12 | Merrill felt her heart tilt as he said softly , ‘ But the setting does no more than justice to the subject . ’ |
| 13 | When the river broadened , the Avignon began to encounter other craft that had started downstream from Saigon on the favourable tide , and Joseph wondered why the battered-looking Chinese junks , with their shabby , patched sails , did n't sink as they lumbered past among a succession of grimy workhorse freighters from Europe and Latin America . |
| 14 | As ready to lie down and die as she had ever been . |
| 15 | His face did not relax as he picked up the brandy and handed it to her . |
| 16 | Would she erupt as she had just now ? |
| 17 | But that was n't enough , she reminded herself sharply , watching the male curlew as it waded out into the shallows , searching for food beneath the surface of the loch . |
| 18 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 19 | Bernice could tell as she glanced over at him . |
| 20 | Now do n't forget as we did here it 's not just |
| 21 | It is built on the shape of the letter ‘ E ’ , not necessarily as a compliment to Queen Elizabeth but for the satisfactory symmetry it afforded to the most important east-facing front which the world and his wife could view as they passed by . |
| 22 | Sead , who had been much more harshly treated than Nijaz , could barely stand as they met yesterday . |
| 23 | She felt her bowels loosen as she realised fully what was happening . |
| 24 | He often wondered what they did in there that made them scream and shout as they ran out . |
| 25 | His name was Joe Jack , and after my first visit I went back many times to hear him talk as he carved out the shape of a leather sole or polished a repaired shoe on his rotary machine . |
| 26 | Hugh did n't wake as she lay down on top of the sheet beside him and before dawn she fell into the heaviest sleep she had enjoyed that holiday . |
| 27 | A ringed plover looked trustingly up from her nest on the shingle , so close to the path , and did not stir as we filed quietly by . |
| 28 | He must tie one end of the string to the opening of the cave and then let the ball unwind as he went down into the labyrinth . |
| 29 | Gabriel heard Lucie groan as he sank down . |
| 30 | What mistake did they make as they sailed away ? |