Example sentences of "[verb] as i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew something was happening as I got to the hospital steps . |
| 2 | A tribe of stray cats scattered as I turned into the yard where Ellen 's apartment lay . |
| 3 | ‘ Listen , ’ I say as I creak to my feet , ‘ can I help with the washing up or something ? ’ |
| 4 | My heart sank as I looked at it . |
| 5 | But money and the recession were forgotten as I skied in the brilliant sunshine of Obergurgl just a few days before Christmas . |
| 6 | I could n't help noticing as I walked up the path . |
| 7 | In fact , that was only done as I walked through the door . |
| 8 | I felt hotter than I need have done as I thought of the man who fed the dough on long , long shovels into that blazing hole . |
| 9 | Every time an angler casts and curses when he loses his line , I , too , now curse as I think of some wild creature getting enmeshed in the deadly snare he has inadvertently set . |
| 10 | I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station . |
| 11 | I am writing as I disagree with various comments made in an article entitled A Pair of Glasses … by Linda Lewis , as I feel that it gave Indian Glassfish a very negative press . |
| 12 | he must have felt as I felt in that empty place . |
| 13 | I heard a terrible pounding in my ears , my heart thudding like a drum , my stomach lurching as I swung on the end of the rope . |
| 14 | And why should n't I do as I please with my own body ? |
| 15 | I can not do as I like in the house . |
| 16 | But I should say that if I had to buy them , I would do as I did with the ones I have — buy from a breeder . |
| 17 | For once in my life there was no need to believe as I did or act as I chose for any reasons other than that I was personally convinced it was right . |
| 18 | On Hazely Peat Moor Bill waited for me , grinning as I slogged through the heather in the heat . |
| 19 | I muttered as I trailed across the green . |
| 20 | Now if I can just refer as I did in my earlier submission to the possible results of that , I suggested that the requirement for the new settlement to be located beyond the outer boundary of the green er York greenbelt , should be rolled into criterion one , the need to avoid the greenbelt . |
| 21 | There was still a Mediterranean atmosphere , as I could see as I walked beneath the Spanish arch along the cobbled quayside towards the harbour . |
| 22 | That was the real reason I was sweating as I went to bed that night . |
| 23 | I said : ‘ You know as I drove along Princes Street to pick you up from the office I had a feeling I left something behind . |
| 24 | Gauge people 's reaction you know as I said to you earlier are you with that Mike because of all I had contact and I thought I saw you |
| 25 | What am I wearing as I pine for the future , |
| 26 | We changed the front brake master cylinder and spoiled the feel of the brake : if I tried to keep braking as I went into a corner , the front wheel would lock up and I would crash . |
| 27 | ‘ Like as I said to the General , miss , the young gentleman 'll have to be worse afore he 's better . ’ |
| 28 | If I could move as I used to I 'd be running around and dancing in the street . ’ |
| 29 | I played outside , running around in a pair of shorts and — I imagine-quite happy to have the whole pregnancy thing going on because it gave me more freedom to do as I liked about the house and garden , free from my father 's supervision . |
| 30 | Perhaps the best way to write this kind of story ( or even the equivalent of the detective novel at short story length ) is to do as I did with the first crime short story I ever wrote . |