Example sentences of "[v-ing] as [pers pn] begin [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna rubbed both hands across her face , her body quivering as she began to regain some warmth , some feeling in her extremities . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't you dare presume to tell me what I need ! ’ she spat , trembling as she began to clamber on to the quayside . |
| 3 | ‘ Could n't wait , eh ? ’ she asked , grinning as she began to undo his shirt buttons . |
| 4 | The first glimpse of Montserrat is always deeply moving as it begins to rise like a vast ragged curtain on the evening horizon , mysterious and slightly sinister in its grandeur as it looms ever nearer in Goya-like menace , shifting from side to side of the bus until it vanishes behind us . |
| 5 | Becky continued shaking as she began to speak again . |
| 6 | Mansell never got further than 1.6secs ahead of Senna , the gap rising and falling as they began to work their way through the back-markers on lap 15 . |
| 7 | For two days he helped her and took stance at night near by , pleased to hear her breathing gradually ease and improve , and watching as she began to sleep in a less troubled way . |
| 8 | She looked down , smiling , then nudged her horse forward , following him , watching as he began to climb the steep path that cut into the overhang above , his horse straining to make the gradient . |
| 9 | My heat was pounding as I began to count the strokes of the church clock . |