Example sentences of "as [pron] was [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye it is a good one , yeah , it 's very similar as I was telling my friend the other day to what we had before |
| 2 | In the Anglo-Italian Cup , group A , the other game being played in this country tonight as I was telling you a short while ago , Bolton nil , Brescia one , the goal scorer after three . |
| 3 | Of course , over the years we 've campaigned , as I was telling someone only yesterday in another club that I go to at the church , that I said you know we , the Co-op Womens ' Guild , were helping to put water into Africa before any of this Band-aid and Live-aid was thought about . |
| 4 | About once a week or fortnight I had to attend some quite high-powered meetings in London to which James came too , as I was feeding him at the time . |
| 5 | Naturally I was disappointed that the most notable name of which we could boast had to be excluded : and although I knew that he disliked re-reading his prose works , I was as sorry that he felt the essay to be below standard as I was to regret his later repudiation of After Strange Gods . |
| 6 | As a matter of fact , as I was larding my toast with the old Maria Schneider this morning , preparatory to sprinkling it with Ecstasy , I worked out a scenario involving eight women , providing one of them was Indian and none were dressed as Carmelites . |
| 7 | Once or twice I started swinging very badly , but as I was using my only hand to stop myself bleeding to death , I was unable to do anything about it . |
| 8 | As I was leaving I made a big show of asking to see the guitar one more time . |
| 9 | I remember putting my foot down when some of my customers took a piece of their sausage as I was weighing it , and after a discerning chew they casually dropped the remaining small piece of chewed hard skin onto the floor of the shop . |
| 10 | Indeed , as I was making my way back to this guest house this evening , I glanced back over my shoulder on a number of occasions and was met each time by a view of the sun setting behind that great spire . |
| 11 | No harm in picking up the extra dough , so long as I was doing my client 's work at the same time . ’ |
| 12 | Then yesterday as I was doing my prison-exercise in the outer cellar I saw a nail . |
| 13 | I knew as I was doing it that I should n't be following them , through the snake-laced paths to the river in the moonlight , to the broken house with the pigeon tower : that shame would be the result — my shame , for I cared nothing what their feelings might be . |
| 14 | Even as I was recording my triumphs over a hostile and alien world , I was also expressing such sentiments as , ‘ Oh , it 's not even worth writing down — the same , usual , dismal , tedious , boring story . ’ |
| 15 | But er , in my later as I was rearing my two children erm I , I think I used to spend mine . |
| 16 | I soon forgot about the heavy object as I was finding it very difficult to keep awake . |
| 17 | The police pointed out that I did n't have a tail light working as I was parking it . |
| 18 | As I was putting them down I saw a piece of paper leaning against the spice-rack . |
| 19 | Then even as I was grinding its neck into the gravel it was trying to peck my heel . |
| 20 | Yes and when I came to , as I was saying we were clearing all half of . |
| 21 | As I was saying we did n't get we were buying in October ready for Christmas , buying them in . |
| 22 | Yes , Sally says we 'll do it , we 'll change it in the car alright , just as I was saying we had erm , we had roast dinner , Charlotte do n't aggravate him , we had roast lamb , erm and I 'd washed up by two o'clock |
| 23 | whatever they were using as bait presumably some mackerel or something like that but , but as I was saying you could see it trailing through and then all , suddenly out of like nowhere this fish would come and like chase after it |
| 24 | Er right as I was saying there 's two iron oxides one named because of its colour and the other one named because of its properties . |
| 25 | I knew it was silly as I was saying it . |
| 26 | ‘ I have a stud farm , and as I was saying I 'm usually too shattered to do more than crawl into bed at the end of the day . |
| 27 | ‘ Virtually as soon as she was born our mum had her down for dancing classes , never mind football . |
| 28 | As she was replacing it with its fellows , a thought occurred to her , and she wondered why it had taken her so long to arrive at such an obvious conclusion . |
| 29 | As she was brushing her teeth , the phone in the hall began to ring — and was answered almost immediately , she guessed , by Jake . |
| 30 | As she was drinking it , she decided that she would go into the hospital , on her way to the office . |