Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] as i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Just barely , ’ I said through gritted teeth as I struggled to my feet . |
| 2 | I have made lots of lasting friendships along my Guiding road as I have through Medau and think myself lucky . |
| 3 | The following afternoon as I walked across the campus , I did n't know it but I was about to commence my full rehabilitation . |
| 4 | I appeal to the same verbal trick as I used in Chapter 3 . |
| 5 | Early recognition as I say of mental illness in an employee and early treatment is better for both the company and the employee . |
| 6 | Would n't leave me all through the following night as I worked on the glass . |
| 7 | As his book is mainly about the south , perhaps it had died out in Andalusia , though even there I remember being startled by its male authority as I walked past a café in Seville . |
| 8 | Except a long metal trunk on the floor which removed a couple of inches of skin from my right shin as I scraped round it . |
| 9 | Sometimes the slaps and punches were for real now , and my mother would cry up the stairs in alarm whenever she heard a sudden thump as I fell on the floor or bumped into the furniture . |
| 10 | It was a fine evening as I passed through Claggan village and on to Achintee , but rather warm for the job ahead . |
| 11 | It 's added a certain anticipation as well to the placement job I 've been doing — ‘ Oh come on someone must have something to say ’ was a regular feeling/thought as I looked at the monitor in anticipation . |
| 12 | The hand-claps sometimes seemed to be keeping time with my leisurely steps as I wandered under the arcades in the hot night , but that was just a coincidence . |
| 13 | I was thinking about black holes as I got into bed one night in 1970 , shortly after the birth of my daughter Lucy . |
| 14 | Well the proposals in the Good Report as I said for final salary schemes is that a third of the trustees should be elected from he actually says from the active members er we know and comments that in great length a about the difficulties that it would be to er actually er elect er er members who are pensioners or from the deferreds Er I find that er somewhat simplistic view point in that er er the pensioners at least get communications from the administrators of the scheme every month , they get a monthly cheque , so it sh should n't be beyond the wit of man to be able to er be able to contact the pensioners and organise pensioner meetings but pensioner trustees to be elected . |
| 15 | The children , their faith reinforced , run down the hill to tell others of their good fortune as I stride up the track towards the forest . |
| 16 | Just as I had done before , I stumped around Clonmacnoise , surveying each ruined building or ancient cross as I came to it . |
| 17 | To cap all I suffered a physical hallucination as I staggered up the road beyond the inlet of Enard Bay : I could clearly see a row of cottages at the top of the hill but when I got there , they had vanished . |
| 18 | Conservation and pollution were important topics as I learnt about saving energy in the home and the environment . |
| 19 | At the hotel I paid him in cash with a bonus and sent him on his way , and was in time to see Filmer 's backview receding into a dark-looking bar as I walked into the big central hall lobby . |
| 20 | My only thought as I collapsed over the line was , ‘ never again ’ . |
| 21 | It was a large field and I could see the barn at the far end as I walked with the tall grass brushing my knees . |
| 22 | Er there and er it 's therefore er the best use we can make of it , not specifically for any particular school in any particular circumstances as I read in the , that the , that the Tories proposals have been in , on , on , on the issue . |
| 23 | It was a cold , wet , typically late autumnal afternoon as I walked along the old trackbed , avoiding the many puddles of murky rainwater on my way . |
| 24 | It is a warm and gentle day as I walk towards the wood that beckons me , cool and friendly . |
| 25 | THERE were a few looks of mock horror as I walked through the door . |
| 26 | And take another tip from me : have your locked-room mystery as a side-issue to your main story as I did in The Perfect Murder , my first Ghote book . |
| 27 | I mumbled back reassuring words about sun and invigorating air as I sweated in line behind him , and ignored his face and his thumb in the exhilaration of that first controllable lurch into the unknown . |
| 28 | Now , in these quiet moments as I wait for the world about to awake , I find myself going over in my mind again passages from Miss Kenton 's letter . |