Example sentences of "as i saw [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were plenty of Garda around , and there ought to have been plenty more , as I saw a group of wild children steal chocolates from a shop and then run off down the road . |
| 2 | That went gradually , as I saw the cancer beating him , saw his skin stretched over his bones , saw the pallor creep over him . |
| 3 | None has arrived but if his death took place as I saw the angel pass I would not hear from my sister Ellen for some time . |
| 4 | I protested , waving my arms and running after her as I saw the possibility of getting into Ashley 's increasingly attractive body slipping away from me . |
| 5 | Later I turned and walloped back towards Berlin , by way of Magdeburg , with just the one tweak of the Tardis en route as I saw the signs for Potsdam . |
| 6 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 7 | The mischief in my veins cooled as I saw the fear in his eyes . |
| 8 | ‘ There ! ’ he said abruptly and threw the plane straight again , but this time dropping the nose , and I saw a jeep churning dust from the dirt road which ran the length of the island 's long shank , between the golf course and the houses , and just as I saw the jeep so the red tracer bullets began climbing from a machine-gun mounted in the back of the vehicle . |
| 9 | As I saw the circle moving in on Alfred , I realised that that voice had been his . |
| 10 | As soon as I saw the file , I knew it was the one I had stolen from Joe , and I knew that this man knew my convict . |