Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " 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 | I wondered , as I looked round at the massed ranks of chaps , young and old . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As I looked round in the pale dawn light , a piece of paper caught my eye . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then , as I looked back at the dark , inscrutable carob tree , I did feel a faint touch of fear . |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As I looked out of the window I noticed that frost was forming on cars . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | snarled this sharp-faced old fellow as I stepped out of the kiosk . |
| 14 | A cordon of stagehands appeared from nowhere and surrounded me as I stepped out of the car . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | I got a taxi as soon as I stepped out of the back door . |
| 18 | As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As I lay back on the clean white sheet tucked round the hard mattress of the sick room bed and faded into a temporary oblivion , I thought to myself that perhaps early retirement would be no bad thing to consider after all . |
| 21 | A sudden misery enveloped me as I drove over to the gate leading into the field . |
| 22 | My only culinary memories of Huntingdon are of seeing a pea-canning factory ( now demolished ) as I passed by on the train . |
| 23 | They were nowhere in sight as I went through to the dining car , and Filmer seemed to have gone straight to his room , as there was a thread of light shining along the bottom of his door ; but Daffodil , I discovered , had after all not . |
| 24 | My only emotion as I went back into the box was cold rage . |
| 25 | I remember a December night : I heard the church clock strike nine as I went down into the garden — it was warm enough to walk . |
| 26 | As I went down in the lift I thought it pretty clever of Purvis to get the bike rider 's licence . |
| 27 | ‘ The church clock was striking ten as I came up into the street from Custom House Quay . ’ |
| 28 | There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch . |
| 29 | As I came out of the church with the dead flowers from Emily 's grave , I saw three other families walk past me . |
| 30 | As I came out of the water he stood and said , ‘ We will take the boat and go to Petrocaravi . ’ |