Example sentences of "[noun] as i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked at her card as I did my hair . |
| 2 | The scent of the tea as I poured it … |
| 3 | He was petrified with fear as I held my knife in front of him . |
| 4 | The instructor must have heard my screams as I felt myself being dragged out as I gasped for air . |
| 5 | Thirty pairs of eyes stared with unwavering concentration as I dipped my hand into the all-too-familiar breakfast of slightly sour rice and salted fish . |
| 6 | Stok joined in the last three words as I said them , and then he laughed So loud that I thought he would shake some of the cracked tiles off the wall . |
| 7 | Now I 've learned , I 've been since Saturday as I told you and I 've , I 've learned how to make a good question . |
| 8 | If I may my Lord there is an issue that was raised in my learned friends reply er which er was a new point er and where I do take issue with him and this concerns the issue of the relevance of the directive here the , the issue relating to er whether or not the er Lloyd 's Act and the society have got any relevance in respect of the directive , his submission as I understood it , was that under article one , eight , nine the directive only addressed itself to states , to the British Government and that therefore the reliance on the directive by the society and in relation to the Lloyds Act was er a misconceived er reliance . |
| 9 | She almost popped out of the swimsuit as I passed her and said , ‘ Hello , Jo . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Better send for an ambulance , ’ I said heavily , taking in the scene as I wondered what to do next . |
| 11 | What we want to do in this session as I said it will only take about twenty minutes , there are three key things we want to do . |
| 12 | ‘ If you had come to England as I thought you would have done , ’ she interrupted frostily . |
| 13 | I felt only a wild delight as I hit his body again and again . |
| 14 | I saw a lot of both her and John in those days as I saw my parents most weekends and they often went round on Sundays as well . |
| 15 | One of the men called to me in German as I passed them . |
| 16 | A man wearing an anorak was walking his dog , and the terrier trundled past me on its lead as I rubbed my hands together , trying to keep warm . |
| 17 | So then I 'll need to go and get my pads and my bandages so that I can put this right , you 'll need two of these for this bandage , the first one , you open out so that the pad is going to go into the palm of her hand and that over the top and she is going to grab hold of the other one like that , okay , now we 've got the wad in there and she 's hanging on to it , but it was the sterile part of the bandage as I undid it that went on to the wound , there is no time for dressing here is there ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One evening as I entered his room , he smiled weakly at me . |
| 20 | But I have made the films as I wanted them . |
| 21 | " His parents are a Count and Countess , in business as I told you , of course all that does n't mean anything now , but they 're in very good standing . |
| 22 | ‘ … spare my life for the love of Heaven as I spared yours , ’ rejoined the girl , clinging to him . |
| 23 | After twenty months of fighting , where twenty times I should have died [ Raymond Jubert admitted ] I have not yet seen war as I imagined it . |
| 24 | I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin . |
| 25 | and could report upon them in their own ethical statements , but they could not object to my ethical statements as I meant them , if I have the relevant feelings . |
| 26 | I ran downstairs to the phone , hearing my father coming to the door of his room as I passed it . |
| 27 | ‘ There was a lot of pressure to make that birdie as I knew I was near the cut , ’ said Ballesteros , who is battling to emerge from a spell of wretched form . |
| 28 | ‘ I knew your name as I knew my own . |
| 29 | ‘ You would have spent the night in my arms , Caroline , ’ he caught her hands in one of his as she began to raise them , ‘ crying out my name as I touched you , begging me to take you over and over again , until finally the sun chased away the darkness . ’ |
| 30 | As I turned over in bed everything was suddenly very wet and I felt a ripple of shock as I realised what had happened . |