Example sentences of "and as i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The festivities started with a parade through the town led by the Houlton Silver Band and as I looked down from the windows of our bed-sitter I could see them all gathering in the street below . |
| 32 | And as I looked back , into that zone of lesser darkness there silently drifted a dense moving shadow . |
| 33 | I went back to the dining-room window , and as I looked in again , Stapleton left the room and came out of the house . |
| 34 | I said we 'd better go home and check and so we drove down to and as I got there , so the bus comes up , so it looked pretty but I thought well I 'd better check so I followed it back up and nobody got off it and |
| 35 | I 'd repeat my name — and as I got really far from shore I 'd say ‘ Ng ’ or ‘ Adolph ’ — to try to bring me back inside myself . |
| 36 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 37 | Almost screaming , I staggered back and as I glared wildly I saw Shep disappearing at top speed towards the gate . |
| 38 | NCT has given me such a lot as I have moved twice when each of my children was 6 months , and as I attended really brilliant ante-natal classes before I had … and now that I am starting out on my ante-natal teacher training which will cost the branch £250 ( This is actually the cheapest training offered by any charity e.g. a Relate counsellor costs £600 to train ! ) , |
| 39 | And as I walked on past those unused bedrooms , Miss Kenton 's figure , a silhouette against a window within one of them , had called to me . |
| 40 | Bunny handed over a fiver and as I walked away I heard him whisper to Rayleen . |
| 41 | And as I walked farther , |
| 42 | A dip in the hill , much like those at Sulber Nick and Kirkby Nick , led over the crest by an outcrop and as I walked out from the dip I saw ahead of me Raydale with , to my left , Semer Water and Addlebrough behind it . |
| 43 | So I left , and as I walked back to my car , the man watched me from the little steel balcony upon which Kanaan Abu Khadra had played as a boy . |
| 44 | And as I became more intoxicated and frustrated I 'd throw open the bedroom window as the dawn came up , and look across the gardens , lawns , greenhouses , sheds and curtained windows . |
| 45 | I found I was being sent to some ghastly hole , miles from civilisation , on top of the Lincolnshire wolds , and as I trekked sullenly north , little did I know how the course of my life was about to be permanently changed . |
| 46 | We do n't have everything by any means ; and as I have already said , I bitterly regret not having our Salome . |
| 47 | And as I say again , I never went into a into the shops , I only saw the expensive stuff really . |
| 48 | That 's what it is Martin , confirmation really of what er Mick said to you in that interview , Steve , Tommy two , three but playing at central defence , Dean 'll be the skipper playing in midfield , Michael at the heart of the defence , Phil in midfield , Paul wears seven but will play up front , er Mark at eight in midfield , wears nine , well that 's a bit of nonsense is n't i in terms of numbering , cos he 's gon na play at left back not at centre forward , Gary is ten , Tony eleven , then on the bench , really good to see David and Rod , Bob 's there as well along with er Paul and that 's er possibly a a first chance for the youngster there , and Michael who has been bloodied already but er a little bit of experience in and er the youngsters , and as I say again it 's really good to see and in the number and er I 'm still practising and I shall give you the Pisa team when you return to the er rather sodden Lane with the spectators all huddled towards the back of the stands to get er extra protection from the er rain that 's being swept a on to the stands and er has obliterated the markings on the pitch . |
| 49 | erm , er and I 'm have to take some time over this , so I think erm in the circumstances the better thing to do would be to adjourn this case till Monday morning and hope that Mr can so arrange his affairs to address me at half past ten on that day , er with Mr and with erm , whatever rights he has to erm deal with matters of this , come up a fresh in reply and to finish off , I 'm gon na leave it like that , a very much , and as I say as far , as far as tomorrow 's concerned that 's er not a difficulty with erm , either Mr informs me which is unlikely or I can , at least get a , make a start , er on the other aspects of the judgement , alright then half past ten on Monday morning |
| 50 | Well erm I mean Andrew , he was very clever , he went to university and as I say now he 's nearly fif getting , getting towards fifty well even so he 's buying a house and last December things got so bad he took a job as a dustman a at Anstey , he lives |
| 51 | It was now called Growth and to get a decision on anything , you had to have a committee meeting , and as I pointed out , if it was going to continue this way , David would lose interest totally . |
| 52 | Again I was making no contact with the flying control and as I did not have a WT operator I could not use my wireless set to inform the station that I was in this predicament . |
| 53 | In a fog I crawled out of bed to pick up a blanket which had fallen on the floor , and as I did so I glanced through into the living room and made out , in the darkness , Changez Lying on his camp-bed watching me . |
| 54 | And as I did so the abuse gathered pace . |
| 55 | I hesitated , and as I did so a big stone that marked the outer edge of the track began to move . |
| 56 | I had to get half way under the bottom strand of barbed wire to see inside properly and as I did so , my hand closed on something smooth and rubbery half buried in the ground . |
| 57 | He pushed again quite hard and as I turned away I heard him snigger and say , ‘ You have to kick 'em , you know . ’ |
| 58 | At the far end , once again my , detector gave a nice small signal , quite different from the copper halfpennies , and as I dug down to retrieve this I had some idea in mind that this might be a hammered . |
| 59 | And as I drew nearer I steadfastly rejected any contrary observation , the persistent negating evidence of my own senses : the lack of older women , the mound of rubbish Rosa would never have tolerated , the general air of apathy and neglect . |
| 60 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |