Example sentences of "[adv] as i [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as I gave the final push , my hand found a rope over the end of the ship . |
| 2 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I have not yet seen a reply from the chief executive , but my understanding is that the position is exactly as I told the Hon. Gentleman in Committee . |
| 3 | ‘ I know what was happening as soon as I felt the familiar ache in my lower back and a rush of blood , ’ she says . |
| 4 | Despair overtakes me as soon as I see the dreaded trolleys jammed together ; I always manage to pick one with a crab-like action ; my heart sinks and culinary amnesia sets in somewhere between the tinned fruit and dried pasta . |
| 5 | I had already decided to do that as soon as I entered the darkened chamber where the royal beast sat slouched on a chair . |
| 6 | I groaned inwardly as I climbed the narrow stairs and was plunged in darkness when only half-way up . |
| 7 | I sobbed with fright , even as I addressed the one and only question which confronted me in such a dangerous situation . |
| 8 | Even as I wrote the final corrections to the first edition of this text in January 1973 , a splendid , though destructive new tear had Opened across the island of Heimaey , south of Iceland , and new oceanic crust was being formed . |
| 9 | Yeah well er there as I said the first er compartment after at the door is the water tanks . |
| 10 | I 'll remi remind you of those again as I reach the various Lots . |
| 11 | Burglars , I thought , and then thought again as I remembered the threatening phone call . |
| 12 | I giggle a little as I fetch the little dark blue jacket I bought at the same time : it was rather extravagant to buy both but they seemed to belong together . |
| 13 | I wept a little as I climbed the creaky stairs , and when I got into the attic I knelt down beside the bed , put my hands together and prayed . |
| 14 | We talked a lot , laughed a lot , drank a lot — another round in the warming game of friendship that left me happy at the time , and aching afterwards as I contemplated the lonely bed . |