Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As lads , ignorant about stalking , two of us hove over a horizon just as someone fired at a stag . |
| 2 | He trotted breathlessly beside me as I strode like a madman through the snow , back to that accursed manor . |
| 3 | I then retraced my steps all the way back round to Crib Goch because the position of the sun allowed me renewed photo opportunities from its rim — a rim now 40 feet above me as I lay on a ledge . |
| 4 | wrong anyway in that er I 'll say it 's the er early on it in the report Good defines what he determines a prus trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively orb enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund er is against that duty in the first place , but it to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty which I will say stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 5 | Oh , I 'd say it is w wrong anyway in that er I say it 's the it 's early er on it in the report Good defines what he determines a trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively ought enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund then it is against that duty in the first place , but it 's to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty saying stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 6 | As I said in a previous article , the Dinas Mawddwy Railway has been obliterated in some places much more than other lines I have walked . |
| 7 | But as I said in a speech recently , we have a lot further to go , more progress to make and that is very much at the top of my agenda of , the agenda of my right honourable friend the education minister . |
| 8 | If you take all of the money that has been spent since the policy was established in nineteen eighty eight , it still does not amount to twenty pence per child which as I said in a previous erm question , answer to a previous question , is bare would barely buy a pencil for each child . |
| 9 | Or another where the leader chanted , As I went through a chinese town I met a chinese lady . |
| 10 | Wondering what would happen I tried pulling up on the boom as I went into a turn . |
| 11 | We changed the front brake master cylinder and spoiled the feel of the brake : if I tried to keep braking as I went into a corner , the front wheel would lock up and I would crash . |
| 12 | He was like as close as that and he was really staring and he was n't staring at the road cos as I went on a few feet he stared at the car again . |
| 13 | Later on that day I was sent into the Corporals ' quarters with a mop and bucket and as I went in a Corporal came out buttoning his flies . |
| 14 | My wife got scared as I went from a nice healthy rosy red colour to sheet white in a few seconds : - ( . |
| 15 | ‘ As I came to a junction , a car pulled out in front of me from a road on the left . |
| 16 | In my child 's brain he crashed at my feet as I walked through a strange city . |
| 17 | As his book is mainly about the south , perhaps it had died out in Andalusia , though even there I remember being startled by its male authority as I walked past a café in Seville . |
| 18 | But as I discovered on a one-day introductory course , enjoyment is also a priority . |
| 19 | We separated , and as soon as I got into a side street , I went down it and there at the bottom was Cuttle 's Bakehouse . |
| 20 | once , as I pranced on a ten-foot |
| 21 | Again , as I recorded in a fieldnote , this assistant chief exhibited aspects of what I could only then describe as ‘ institutional paranoia ’ , when he went on to deride an unnamed social scientist who had been allowed research facilities inside a police force ( unspecified ) . |
| 22 | My son , aged four , believes in God and Jesus , as I did as a child . |
| 23 | ‘ Good evening , ’ he said , as I scuttled like a giant shaved rodent into the furthest corner of the caravan . |
| 24 | This broad sketch helped me to explore the crayon 's versatility without using the final painting as a trial piece , it also helped keep the whole composition in mind as I concentrated on a specific detail in the finished painting . |
| 25 | I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me . |
| 26 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 27 | One became a pitbull Poodle as I approached with a coat , and Bizzie ( pictured here ) just froze . |
| 28 | You get your own ego to face up to its own problems and to make its own decisions , er as I mentioned before a very painful process and a , and a , and a rather gruelling one . |
| 29 | As I mentioned in a previous memo , if the Government decides to endorse the re-establishment of the Welsh Affairs Committee , and it chooses to continue the study , we will want to give evidence . |
| 30 | Mr and Mrs Smith , the benign proprietors , were always good to me , giving me a lolly or a ‘ black jack ’ every time I shopped there , and I was looking forward to the treat as I stood behind a small queue masking the counter . |