Example sentences of "as [pers pn] come [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It cheers me up as I come up in the lift and stagger out blinking in the daylight . |
| 2 | ‘ The church clock was striking ten as I came up into the street from Custom House Quay . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As I came out of the church with the dead flowers from Emily 's grave , I saw three other families walk past me . |
| 5 | As I came out of the water he stood and said , ‘ We will take the boat and go to Petrocaravi . ’ |
| 6 | As you come up down the road on the left ha , on the left hand side but you got ta go down there |
| 7 | So as you come up on the approach side , think position . |
| 8 | This is a peculiarly steep region , so much so in fact that the snow finds it more than usually difficult to stay where it has fallen ; there have been some sadly famous avalanches near Luz , the hamlets of Chéze and Saligos which you pass as you come in from the north both having been smothered and destroyed in their time . |
| 9 | As you come out of the Blackwall Tunnel , right by the new Financial Times building , there are at least two shut and boarded up pubs . |
| 10 | Just millions of conferences that just tire you out and exhaust you , and nothing change as you come out of the conference — it 's the same thing . |
| 11 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 12 | She backed away , one hand raised to ward him off , stopping abruptly as she came up against the edge of the table . |
| 13 | It was the right time as she came around to the front of the house . |
| 14 | Over coffee in the study Miss Danziger thanked the guests individually for their concern , apologised for interrupting their enjoyment of an excellent meal , and explained that so long as she came out of the spasm in less than a minute and a half it was not dangerous and left no ill-effects . |
| 15 | He sat up in bed , just as she came out of the bathroom , rubbing her hair with a towel , unselfconsciously naked . |
| 16 | Mrs Joe was saying as she came out of the kitchen , ‘ The pie — has — gone ! ’ but stopped when she saw the soldiers . |
| 17 | James came running up the stairs as she came out of the office . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm ready , ’ Billie said as she came out of the bathroom . |
| 19 | She had elected to keep the group to women only , instead of employing a male model to act as bridegroom , but as she came out of the dressing-room she would have welcomed someone to walk by her side . |
| 20 | Marguerite looked a trifle anxiously at Jenna as she came back into the room . |
| 21 | Now , as she came back to the present , Lady Merchiston 's own eyes were on her in a compelling look , demanding an answer . |
| 22 | ‘ You think , ’ she began , dabbing at her eyes as she came back with the pad , ‘ you think someone — someone killed my Charlie because he would n't go on — go on doing these jobs for them ? ’ |
| 23 | As she came back towards the drawing-room , Robert was waiting in the hall . |
| 24 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 25 | Spittals ' hands glowed from the diligent rubbing he was applying to them as she came in through the door at ten o'clock . |
| 26 | Switch on and move the appropriate levers on the banks of controllers , and the children come running out of the house , little pink-cheeked creatures half an inch high , who turn to wave at Felicity as she comes out on the terrace to see them off to school . |
| 27 | I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’ |
| 28 | Tommaso appeared as we came in from the street , hamming it up just the way I remembered . |
| 29 | But we also had the attendant holding the door for us as we came out of the changing room because the wind was threatening to tear it off its hinges , as well as relentlessly trying to move the deep end up to the shallow end . |
| 30 | All of us stand up watching as we come out of the theatre and Alfred glance up at we . |