Example sentences of "[noun] as [pron] walk " in BNC.
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| 1 | They arrived in separate motorcades and barely exchanged a glance as they walked across the tarmac . |
| 2 | He gave the pair a friendly glance as they walked towards the riverside . |
| 3 | You can feel the same oppressive sense of place at Culloden , where great numbers of Scots were massacred , and I felt a similar sense of sadness and grief as I walked through Glencoe where the Macdonalds were treacherously murdered by the Campbells . |
| 4 | His eyes never left Lamarr Dean , but his right hand closed on the Spencer and it was down at his side as he walked over the few steps to the bar . |
| 5 | A girl of about Xanthe 's age bounced up to my side as I walked slowly along in front of the grandstand , and said , ‘ Hi ! |
| 6 | The three women were silent as Alice went down the front steps , her white lace dress foaming around her legs as she walked . |
| 7 | Tiny clouds swirled about his legs as he walked . |
| 8 | I , Jessel , saw the heaviness in his legs as he walked up the lane . |
| 9 | ‘ What do you think you 're doing McAllister ? ’ asked Dr Neil as she walked towards him , just at the moment when the girl began to moan and thrash about , her pains suddenly returning in full force . |
| 10 | Dot wished that the metal caps on Gloria 's high-heels would n't make such a tapping as they walked . |
| 11 | She did not see Joe for a few days and then one Friday as she walked past she saw him in the teashop and went in to join him . |
| 12 | She followed him with her eyes as he walked with Emmie to the gate , very neat and spruce in the white Terylene shirt and blue shorts she had bought for him at Harrods . |
| 13 | It was growing dark as I walked down the pier alone , his jacket draped over my shoulders , and I wondered if I should really look for Wilde at all . |
| 14 | Charlotte followed obediently at his heels as they walked through a district of narrow , dirty streets . |
| 15 | Then I ate the sandwich as I walked back to Wavebreaker . |
| 16 | A couple of men waved white handkerchief frantically above their heads as they walked gingerly to where other forms were lying , deadly still . |
| 17 | Roirbak said to Tammuz as they walked to the hangar where the company rotor was housed . |
| 18 | With enough computational skill , a contoured ‘ stained-glass ’ window in a church , say , could show a whole sequence of devotional images as someone walked down the aisle towards it . |
| 19 | I relived the murder as I walked back home through the streets . |
| 20 | Like Richard Cory he glitters and flutters pulses as he walks . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're not fucking likely to get that ! were Sid 's last words as he walked off in the direction of the latrine . |
| 22 | They can track shoplifters as they walk through the city . |
| 23 | On either side , white-painted kerb stones glowed faintly through the blackness as she walked with the rest towards the sound of the dancing , for ears were of more use than eyes in the blackout . |
| 24 | A woman needed hospital treatment after being attacked by a parrot as she walked her dog at Ashleworth , near Gloucester . |
| 25 | Jacques Devraux and half-a-dozen Moi trackers were waiting beside the narrow river that flowed past the camp , and the senator put his arm lightly around his son 's shoulders as they walked over to join them . |
| 26 | Somehow the pins in her hair always seemed to escape when she lost her temper and the dark tresses whirled round her shoulders as she walked up and down Oswin 's bedroom . |
| 27 | Still , if you do n't mind suspending your disbelief as you walk into the cinema , Deceived is a cut above recent thrillers like Shattered and A Kiss Before Dying , though hardly up to the standard of Fatal Attraction or Jagged Edge . |
| 28 | Police are hunting a man who snatched a woman 's handbag as she walked to a bank in Church Street , Hartlepool . |
| 29 | A 79-year-old woman who was attacked and robbed of her handbag as she walked near Gateshead town centre has been admitted to hospital for observation after suffering a heart flutter brought on by stress . |
| 30 | It was lively as usual , the mishmash of pop music blaring through loudspeakers as he walked among the crowd , mostly young people on the look-out for instant fun and excitement in an otherwise dreary world . |