Example sentences of "[v-ing] as i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I heard a photocopier going as I rummaged around , ’ he said . |
| 2 | My lungs exploded , imploded , exploded , imploded ; plumes of wet sand flew from my soles , rising as I sped on , falling in little curves and spattering back as I raced on into the distance . |
| 3 | ’ I stopped speaking as I noticed how strangely he was staring at me . |
| 4 | Coming as I did directly from higher education , I had expected to be treated as an adult and be allowed to explore my own educational needs during my three year RGN training , undertaken a few years ago . |
| 5 | The other question , however , as to what exactly I am supposed to be doing as I sit here , is plainly still a live issue — which is the reason for this intolerably circumstantial disquisition . |
| 6 | You are obviously determined to believe that I deliberately and maliciously set out to destroy you , knowing as I did how much you had already been hurt . ’ |
| 7 | Edward looked on scowling as I came over . |
| 8 | There was no time to get back into the right position , take a breath and gently squeeze the trigger ; it was up and bang , and with my whole body unbalanced and both hands on the gun I fell forward , rolling as I did so to keep the gun out the sand . |
| 9 | I turned back to my plate , registering as I did so that Geoff Tulloch , who was with a group of his data-processing colleagues at a nearby table , had noticed our interest . |
| 10 | But Clare was ten thousand miles away , I was thinking as I woke up , while Toma made fresh coffee and cooked me a man-sized breakfast of local bacon-cum-ham and two of the island 's tiny eggs . |
| 11 | Hating as I have never hated . |
| 12 | The guns along the banks of the Orne were still firing as I arrived back at the jeep . |
| 13 | Just to set the scene and seeing as I have n't been in the plot too much lately . |
| 14 | And seeing as I have n't got an account with them I do n't think they 'll say well you can have some anyway . |
| 15 | Seeing as I have n't any ironing to do . |
| 16 | am not when I came to die seeing as I have not lived . |
| 17 | I said without thinking , ‘ I wonder what you were all like when you were young ? ’ , realising as I spoke how young I was myself as four people in early middle age turned to regard me with varying degrees of indignation and amusement . |