Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The friar turned as someone tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 2 | He gave me a self-conscious grin and then yelped as someone thumped him in the back . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin . |
| 5 | It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I knew as soon as I saw it in the garden sale catalogue , it was unmistakeable . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As I followed him through the doorway the porter whispered , " Get your braces undone , sir , do n't keep him waiting . " |
| 12 | As I followed him across the road , he roared off-straight through green traffic lights and into the distance . |
| 13 | As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | As soon as I told her about the things that had happened , she knew . |
| 17 | As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The clock on the mantelpiece chimed the half-hour , seven thirty , as I walked her to the door . |
| 20 | The vast majority of academic writers , as I discovered myself in a trawl of more recent literature , tend to recycle old material , relying upon out-of-date statistics and official reports . |
| 21 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
| 22 | We wotchered each other as I led him across the road . |
| 23 | Someone shouted : " Lie down ! " , and as I threw myself to the ground , I felt a bullet hit me . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | His brow was moist with perspiration as I reminded him of the broadcast . |
| 26 | During the lead-up to my emergence as a fully-fledged lesbian , I suffered unspeakably as I steered myself through a minefield of heavily internalized Catholic dogma . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I was very frightened as I remembered something in the Book of Remembering : ‘ In those days there were trees … ‘ |
| 29 | He grunted a little as I rested it against the arm of the chair , but did n't wake . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's a bomb , ’ I thought , as I braced myself against the walls of the trench waiting for the inevitable explosion . |