Example sentences of "as i [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I knew his name , and murmured it as I looked on from the supply hut , with my schnapps and my toilet paper : ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ .
2 Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in .
3 I wondered , as I looked round at the massed ranks of chaps , young and old .
4 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 .
5 As I looked round in the pale dawn light , a piece of paper caught my eye .
6 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 .
7 The festivities started with a parade through the town led by the Houlton Silver Band and as I looked down from the windows of our bed-sitter I could see them all gathering in the street below .
8 Then , as I looked back at the dark , inscrutable carob tree , I did feel a faint touch of fear .
9 We talked of England : and my host was so inspiring in his eloquence on the subject of what England might have achieved in friendship with Germany that , as I looked out on the twilight enshrouding the Kurfiarstendamm I could think of nothing to say but Marlowe 's famous lines :
10 However , this sensation evaporated as soon as I looked out of the window , when I realized how imprisoned I was by my ignorance , which Aisha seized upon , exploiting the fact that I did n't know how to flush the toilet , work the shower , turn on the oven or boil the electric kettle to make tea , and that I could n't understand what her older child or her next-door neighbour said .
11 I heard a noise one night , like several motorbikes roaring down the road , only it was coming from above , and as I looked out of the window there they were — three red exhausts in the sky , blinding along a parallel course a few feet above the roof tops .
12 As I looked out of the window I noticed that frost was forming on cars .
13 As I looked out of the window into the black emptiness , I wondered about the great mystery of death , and thought of Helen Burns , who was so sure her spirit would go to heaven .
14 But none of this disturbed my mind or my body as I looked across at the girl in the coffee bar .
15 As long as I get up in the morning .
16 As I get out of the second tube I see someone has been scratching letters off the sign above the door .
17 As soon as I get out of the Army .
18 snarled this sharp-faced old fellow as I stepped out of the kiosk .
19 A cordon of stagehands appeared from nowhere and surrounded me as I stepped out of the car .
20 As I stepped out of the boat and walked up the beach , I noticed that although the sun had been very hot , the air suddenly seemed cooler .
21 Philip implicitly dismisses the value of his own reflections on the ugliness of modern London with off-hand self-ironizing comments which imply that he too is a product of the intellectual dissipation he criticizes : ‘ Life , I said with startling originality as I stepped out of the bus in my mackintosh , is like that ’ ( 307 ) .
22 I got a taxi as soon as I stepped out of the back door .
23 As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona .
24 Even so , some brain cells were still working , as I stared inwardly at the nub of the problem .
25 It cheers me up as I come up in the lift and stagger out blinking in the daylight .
26 They 've been driving me mad ever since I moved in , but as soon as I come out with a gun they all disappear .
27 One of the most striking facts of the Commonwealth , as I saw clearly at the Commonwealth conference in Harare , is the immense affection and admiration that exists for Her Majesty the Queen among all Commonwealth leaders and countries .
28 As I gazed out of the window I could see several groups of red deer in the distance , and in the foreground the brown ferns with clumps of heather here and there ; it was a wonderful sight .
29 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 .
30 It was a stunning sight , and as I lay idly in the boulders that are reputed to have fallen 1600 metres and half a mile from the South Face of La Meije to the Chatelleret , I thought of the climb to come and let the daylight drift over me .
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