Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb base] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as I get up in the morning . |
| 2 | As I get out of the second tube I see someone has been scratching letters off the sign above the door . |
| 3 | As soon as I get out of the Army . |
| 4 | It cheers me up as I come up in the lift and stagger out blinking in the daylight . |
| 5 | As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long . |
| 6 | The undercut cave is dark and mysterious but the lightness of the sandy bottom becomes apparent as I look across the bend , the water becoming shallower as I scan across to the inside of the bend . |
| 7 | As I turn in to the book of Genesis I read there of God coming to Abraham , and saying to Abraham , that Abraham in your family all the nations of the world are gon na be blessed ! |
| 8 | As I sit here in the dark in , what is , after all , an artist 's home , writing by the light of the overhead lamp , I can see the shapes and colours and forms and the old excited feelings are returning . |
| 9 | But I realize , as I sit here in the offices of the Strategy Unit , away from my usual desk and my usual routine , and charged with scrupulous self-examination , that I look forward to being interrupted , and that I also get a certain satisfaction from these sighs and clickings of the tongue . |
| 10 | As I walk away from the house I meet Brian Wilson driving in . |
| 11 | His hands are tight across my back , then he lets go and as I walk out of the room his face goes back to the letters . |
| 12 | As I walk out into the sunlight , the grass is soft under my feet . |
| 13 | And as I walk back through the streets the other thing fuelling this self-criticism is that I turned up there with the gun . |
| 14 | As I walk back to the motel I am relieved to see that there is no light on in the room . |
| 15 | So it is with me , stuck with gloves and stick as soon as I step out of the front door . |
| 16 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
| 17 | She drums her fingers on the banister as I edge back to the lounge . |
| 18 | As I drift off into the aisle , I see Lil gliding back towards our stand , escorting a pair of avenging angels . |
| 19 | As I hang on to the arm-rest with white knuckles , it is clear to me that Brundle has decided not to attempt the corners but to go straight on to the escape road : the turn is impossible now ; it 's just a joke ; he 's trying to scare the shit out of me . |
| 20 | As I lie uneasily in the cab , I wonder why it is that I feel propelled to barge in here . |
| 21 | As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion . |
| 22 | ‘ Sometimes I 'm in such a tearing hurry I just grab a nappy and bottle on the run as I head out of the door . ’ |
| 23 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
| 24 | All I am conscious of , as I stand there with the page in my hand , is that here at last are the two terms of my inquiry , Strategy and Summerchild , united by the same sheet of paper . |
| 25 | As I burst on to the empty platform , the train starts to pull away . |
| 26 | Faces looked strangely at me as I burst abruptly into the bar room . |
| 27 | But as I read on about the growing disharmony between Mrs. Proudie and Mr. Slope , Trollope rose in my estimation and count him among my favourite authors . |
| 28 | as I pant up towards the breathless heights . |
| 29 | As you walk up to the first Munro , Stob Choire Claurigh , the whole complexity of the Aonachs becomes clear . |
| 30 | Obvious because it stares you in the face as you walk in to the corrie , and also because you can see that the icicle has n't quite formed despite rumours that it does . |