Example sentences of "as i [verb] [adv prt] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered , as I looked round at the massed ranks of chaps , young and old . |
| 2 | I felt sure that if Mr Reed had lived he would have treated me kindly , and now , as I looked round at the dark furniture and the walls in shadow , I began to fear that his ghost might come back to punish his wife for not keeping her promise . |
| 3 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 4 | Then , as I looked back at the dark , inscrutable carob tree , I did feel a faint touch of fear . |
| 5 | As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona . |
| 6 | As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long . |
| 7 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
| 8 | The guns along the banks of the Orne were still firing as I arrived back at the jeep . |
| 9 | As I pulled in at the ambulance building , the switchboard had just received a message that a dead body had been found in Cathedral Road . |
| 10 | As I pointed out at the beginning of this judgment , the patient 's right of choice exists whether the reasons for making that choice are rational , irrational , unknown or even non-existent . |
| 11 | As I pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , education is on the threshold of a new era , which will have massive repercussions upon the issues of assessment and examination , with some of the proposed developments being viewed with considerably more apprehension than the GCSE was a couple of years ago . |
| 12 | A disgraceful decision , as I pointed out at the time . ’ |