Example sentences of "[noun pl] as i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frown was back between his eyes as I put on the light in my room . |
| 2 | I was rubbing my eyes as I clambered out of the trench . |
| 3 | Mum and Dad were dozing in their chairs but Dad opened his eyes as I sat down and asked if I 'd enjoyed the picture . |
| 4 | He jumped to his feet as I came in . |
| 5 | The next day , while we were exercising , Brian kept watch under the door for the guards ' feet as I tapped out , ‘ We are Brian Keenan and John McCarthy . |
| 6 | That time was lifted from my feet as I hurtled backwards . |
| 7 | It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent . |
| 8 | The tent is extremely stable especially in very high winds as I found out on a few wet and wild nights . |
| 9 | I would allow the appeal and give the directions as I set out in my judgment . |
| 10 | To Timothy his dear dad great mercy and peace to you from God the father and Christ Jesus our Lord I give thanks to the God of my forefathers who I worship with a clear conscience when I mention you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day . |
| 11 | I remembered this recently with all these people falling from express trains but did n't think it could be the same on local lines as I had never heard anyone complain before . |
| 12 | And as I had this urge to correct manuscripts as I went along , and could n't read his handwriting , and did n't know the first thing about Roman Britain , you can imagine he felt obliged to educate me . |
| 13 | I shake my hand free of most of his semen and deliberately let my hand brush across the leaves and blades as I dash past , wiping the rest off . |
| 14 | I scanned the street for lurking strangers as I came near , and no one was there . |
| 15 | I gave the pompous statuary a flick of the pink feathers as I went past . |
| 16 | The guns a short distance away along the river bank were shelling the German positions as I started up the bagpipes in a fairly secluded thicket , the sound of the drones and the pipe reed easily drowning the noise of the guns . |
| 17 | She said : ‘ I am enjoying it although it is difficult for me with the customers as I do n't know the shop . ’ |
| 18 | Because we had all come from such different backgrounds , and were individuals bound together only by circumstance , I felt it was impossible to criticise their actions as I did n't fully understand their motivations . |
| 19 | I work from the inside and come out and finish things as I go along . |
| 20 | Several violent explosions close by , followed by clouds of black smoke rising in columns above the trees , shrapnel hissing along the ground and through the trees as I dived head-first into the trench to join the three Frenchmen . |
| 21 | My Lords if this bill had been introduced by a government of a different political persuasion to the present one , I would of course have spoken in precisely the same terms as I do today and I believe that in circumstances of that sort , the overwhelming majority of this House would have taken precisely the same view . |
| 22 | I 've recommended your diet to various patients as I do n't see how anyone can fail to benefit from a diet low in fat . |
| 23 | So I have to make decisions as I go along as to which points need to be spelled out , which of them can be stated sparely , or which of them do not need to be mentioned at all but can be left to be inferred . |
| 24 | The third area I need to take you through is some erm typographical amendments to the resolutions that you have in front of you , so if you just bear with me I proposed to go through those and perhaps if you want to mark them on the sheets as I go through and if I 'm going too fast erm just wave . |
| 25 | Then , for five minutes at least , he was still again , and then , when he knew he was talking with God , his arm went around my shoulder and there came up from the depth of his heart such petitions for men as I had never heard be-fore . |
| 26 | I might want to poke my tongue out at those new cameras as I slow down to pass them , but deep down even I know that they 're there for my protection . |
| 27 | I went out , letting the smoke and fumes free into the damp air ; coils of blue and grey curled off my hair and clothes as I stood there , breathing deeply . |
| 28 | Turning onto finals over a wood-storage factory under the approach , the rattly , misfiring old JAP caused one or two upturned faces as I throttled back and descended , sounding like an aerial vintage motorcycle , towards the grass runway at about 60 kts , reducing to 50 over the threshold . |
| 29 | As a matter of interest , I 'm totting up the sum of his holdings as I go along . |
| 30 | ‘ I did ask to sit next to you , ’ Erica remarked , as if reading my thoughts as I sat down , ‘ once I knew you 'd be here . ’ |