Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [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 I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin .
4 It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 I knew as soon as I saw it in the garden sale catalogue , it was unmistakeable . ’
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 As I followed him through the doorway the porter whispered , " Get your braces undone , sir , do n't keep him waiting . "
11 As I followed him across the road , he roared off-straight through green traffic lights and into the distance .
12 As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself .
13 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 .
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 We wotchered each other as I led him across the road .
19 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 .
20 His brow was moist with perspiration as I reminded him of the broadcast .
21 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 .
22 He grunted a little as I rested it against the arm of the chair , but did n't wake .
23 We were faced , as you reminded me with a projected twenty-four million pound shortfall .
24 They used to These they used to be a round used to be round you know and not very used to hit them as you hit them with a stick you see , they used to wheel wheel round and round .
25 ‘ The vacillating vamp , as you christened her in The Dobblers the other night . ’
26 So I better 'ave it out , Annie , that 's if I can pawn me lace tablecloth for one an' six , same as you gave me on the watch . ’
27 I remember once thinking my mother was stark raving bonkers as she regaled me with a tale of the time she scrimped for six months to buy a pair of elbow length , white kid evening gloves , which set her back the equivalent of two weeks ' wages .
28 ‘ They 've got no consideration , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke stormed as she met us with a supply of dusters and aerosols and impregnated cloths .
29 She could never ignore them as she passed them on the street , and they , as if they sensed it , turned to her , picking her out at once from a throng of a hundred other pedestrians as the one who saw and heard them .
30 Hubert James Bainbridge , tenth earl of Donnington , called out to his daughter as she passed him on the opposite side of the street , but she did not hear him .
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