Example sentences of "as i [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 As I disentangled myself from the green wool , I had been linked not only to these women beside me , but to those in Canaan and all the other women through the centuries who have wept over the death of the gods of life , of love , and of hope , whom they tried to revive with their tears .
2 I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin .
3 It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s .
4 The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad .
5 I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional .
6 I knew as soon as I saw it in the garden sale catalogue , it was unmistakeable . ’
7 So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force .
8 As I questioned her during the session , Maxine described to me a life as Martha , a fisherman 's wife in a small seaport in the late eighteenth century .
9 As I followed him through the doorway the porter whispered , " Get your braces undone , sir , do n't keep him waiting . "
10 As I followed him across the road , he roared off-straight through green traffic lights and into the distance .
11 As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself .
12 She seemed more beautiful than ever , and her manner to me was very pleasant , as I took her to the house in London where Miss Havisham had arranged for her to stay .
13 I felt exhausted : as I dragged myself up the stairs I can remember thinking that now I knew what people meant when they said they were ‘ tired to death ’ .
14 As soon as I told her about the things that had happened , she knew .
15 As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’
16 Erm the point that you put to me I think two or three questions ago wa was related as I understood it to the the alignment and the network of the lanes .
17 The clock on the mantelpiece chimed the half-hour , seven thirty , as I walked her to the door .
18 I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time .
19 We wotchered each other as I led him across the road .
20 Someone shouted : " Lie down ! " , and as I threw myself to the ground , I felt a bullet hit me .
21 As I placed them in the water , the bone-china cups and saucers became first glass then nothing ; the water was cold as a glacier .
22 His brow was moist with perspiration as I reminded him of the broadcast .
23 In gratitude for what I thought God had given me , a second chance , I ignored Leon 's boredom as I talked him through the files — just as I was ignoring Muriel 's messages to call her — and I ignored his rarely appearing at meetings with agricultural reps and men from the Milk Marketing Board ; ignored his non-involvement with any of the humdrum things essential to the running of a place like Sleet .
24 I was very frightened as I remembered something in the Book of Remembering : ‘ In those days there were trees … ‘
25 He grunted a little as I rested it against the arm of the chair , but did n't wake .
26 ‘ It 's a bomb , ’ I thought , as I braced myself against the walls of the trench waiting for the inevitable explosion .
27 I was not prepared to commit myself completely in every situation , as I found myself as the actor and the spectator at the same time .
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