Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , I thought as I waited in thick over-coated ranks for the Germans to come and count us , it 'll all be over by this time tomorrow . |
| 2 | As I waited in the porch with the bridesmaids , I saw Shanti get out of the car , take her father 's arm , and walk towards us . |
| 3 | As I indicated in the preceding chapter , innovative approaches to language teaching that have been recommended in the past have not , generally speaking , been subjected to this kind of pragmatic treatment . |
| 4 | But as I indicated in Chapter 1 , and is apparent from subsequent discussion , such a definition represents teaching as essentially a research activity . |
| 5 | For example , as I indicated in discussing personal care , it is regarded as legitimate for children to think about their own interests when deciding whether to support a parent , but this is balanced rather delicately with the morality of obligation and duty , so that children can quite easily get into the position where they are regarded as too self-interested . |
| 6 | Even where contact is frequent and based upon mutual affection , that does not mean necessarily that mothers and daughters are significant sources of support for each other , as I indicated in my discussion of emotional support . |
| 7 | As I indicated in chapter 1 , it is now less common for young married couples to begin married life in the home of a relative , except on a very temporary basis . |
| 8 | As I indicated in chapter 1 , whilst the system of primogeniture had been used traditionally by the aristocracy as a way of passing on an estate intact , the expanding entrepreneurial business class of the early industrial period tended to favour partible inheritance . |
| 9 | In relation to the former , as I indicated in the first paper , our capacity to invent commodity vocabulary is not paralleled by levels of commodity understanding . |
| 10 | Then as I hovered in an agony of uncertainty I noticed that the salivation was diminishing ; she was able to swallow . |
| 11 | For as I observed in Chapter 3 , the underlying meaning of both folk and expert discourse about sex difference is a political one . |
| 12 | As I observed in Southampton , that leaves a problem for the travelling public . |
| 13 | As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone . |
| 14 | An inner excitement gripped me as I saw in my mind 's eye an image of Clare trying to hobble round her bedroom . |
| 15 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
| 16 | Many of them died , but as I left in September , there was a tangible improvement in the condition of those remaining . |
| 17 | As I left in early afternoon to catch the London train , I reflected that here was as large number of small businessmen who were likely to see some radical changes in the way they operated . |
| 18 | The opening games did not go quite as I expected in that I was surprised to see Wales beat Ireland . |
| 19 | As I argued in the previous chapter , boxing was the first sport in which institutional arrangements permitted a black presence : almost every weight division produced black boxers of such brilliance that they were virtually without equals ( see Henderson , 1949 , 1970 ; Maher , 1968 ) . |
| 20 | As I argued in Chapter 5 , I am doubtful both whether such a condition really occurs at all , and whether , if it were to exist , drugs are ever likely to be developed which can help it . |
| 21 | As I related in my Opus article , in 1979 1 indeed recorded two of those three mechanical organs , the undated organ ( Teubner ) and that of 1793 ( Veyder-Malberg ) , at their slowest speeds . |
| 22 | I found it interesting to take one person , say the rector , Charles Henstock , and make him the chief character in one book and follow his fortunes , as I had in the first book about the great Mrs Curdle . |
| 23 | And I have to confess that I found you as delightful then as I had in Wexford , and was intending to find out where you were going , and pursue the acquaintanceship . |
| 24 | As I lay in the ditch I was suddenly conscious of a very strong indescribably sickly smell . |
| 25 | With that remark I took my leave and made my way through the orchard and onto the road leading to Brigade H.Q That evening as I lay in my trench I thought about the events of the first seven days in Normandy . |
| 26 | As I lay in bed that night , watching the flash of the searchlights on the darkened wall , I asked Robin Summers the same question . |
| 27 | We have owls in our garden ; they cried softly last night as I lay in my glass coffin , Snow White waiting for the fairy to wake her into feminism with a kiss . |
| 28 | That night as I lay in bed I prayed that it was not our name , only one like ours ; I still could n't believe it . |
| 29 | A doctor said it was an infested splinter , but I had stabbing pains there — and then , at night , as I lay in bed unable to get to sleep because of the pain , I could hear a munching sound . |
| 30 | As I lay in me bed each night , I heard an eerie , moaning sound from overhead . |