Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [verb] on [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The midwife suggested I go into the birthing pool as I 'd requested on my birth plan . |
| 2 | All over the world , as I had observed on my travels for Panorama and TRI , countries which had long been administered by others were hoisting their own colours ; everywhere the idea of new-born nationhood was in the air . |
| 3 | I munched away at my apple and toyed with a piece of cheese as I tried to concentrate on their views on Karl Marx . |
| 4 | She advanced on Maybelle , her hands clenched into fists , as she had advanced on her little brothers , sometimes seriously , sometimes in play . |
| 5 | As she had learned on her first night there , Moorlake was noisy at night . |
| 6 | She was both proud and fearful for him and , as she continued to look on him , thought of the vast and mighty oceans he would cross , the loneliness of such journeys , and prayed he would not regret his decision to leave them . |
| 7 | She stood back to watch the great man from behind and , in watching , became progressively more fidgety as she itched to comment on his alignment . |
| 8 | Yet even as she felt humiliated on his behalf she recognized that she too had been drawn into complicity with Emilia 's will . |
| 9 | But it was hard to scowl , she found , when her heart was suddenly skittering at the way the dark eyes were quite openly smiling as they continued to focus on her now lightly rising bosom . |
| 10 | Many analyses of the unions in the 1970s suggested that such political power as they possessed rested on their ability to defy incomes policies over time and veto ( as In Place of Strife ) or render inoperable the policies or legislation which they did not like . |
| 11 | In the evenings the merchants invited us to join them as they sat chatting on their cots in the middle of the courtyard . |
| 12 | His agents within the Imperial army managed to assassinate three of Dara 's generals as they sat exposed on their elephants . |
| 13 | Like Indian nationalists and reformers of an earlier generation , he was deeply concerned , in a way which plainly suggests the working of British influence on his mind , as it had worked on theirs , with the regeneration of India . |
| 14 | Gavin Hastings ' conversion , allied to his four earlier penalties , pitched Watsonians into a 6-19 advantage into which Selkirk could make no dents by the interval , Jeremy Brett mis-timing two penalties as he sought to build on his initial brace . |
| 15 | He was keeping to the awnings , and a passing squall , just as he had foreseen on his departure from Dolmetta that morning , approached from the interior and sailed grandly overhead , steeping the baked stones of the port in a blissful freshness for an interval ; the snails would be coming out , he thought . |