Example sentences of "as i [verb] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Leo , she said warningly , ‘ I have had as much as I intend taking for one day . |
| 2 | The rain which is making conditions up here decidedly unpleasant is as I speak seeping through the rocks and creating foaming torrents underground , flooding caverns and making passages impassable . |
| 3 | I 'd known her , and her husband Alan Rakoff , for a long time and as I began searching for someone to play Barbara I just found myself thinking about her . |
| 4 | They emerged as I began thinking about and writing about the data I collected . |
| 5 | However , as I start walking in the direction of the lake he merely steps into stride . |
| 6 | I 'm the same , erm , I spend as much as time driving as I do sitting in stock |
| 7 | I flinch , and Rachel starts up from the floor as I begin stumbling through some kind of introduction . |
| 8 | As I sat listening to Dr Bowie and his statistician talking at the press conference called to launch their report , carefully explaining the origin of the figures , I realized the significance of this news . |
| 9 | So Wilson and I were quite chummy together , and he looked at me approvingly through his thick-lensed glasses as I sat talking with his wife about , for instance , winter tasks . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , then , ’ he went on , ‘ much as I enjoy looking at the top of your head , I did ask a question . |
| 11 | Or again late at night as I stood shivering at my bedroom window looking out on the frosted garden , unable to sleep and unable to understand why . |
| 12 | As I stood hesitating in the doorway , Miss Kenton appeared at my side and said : ‘ Mr Stevens , I have a little more time than you at the moment . |
| 13 | But the painting said nothing at all to me as I stood gazing at it . |
| 14 | The bus was cosy and , as I stood dangling from a strap with the other excess passengers , someone asked the driver if Hampstead Road was still closed off to traffic going north . |