Example sentences of "[vb past] as i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strange the tricks that life plays , I mused as I drove home , popping the tape of madrigals into the player . |
| 2 | She stopped as I held up a finger . |
| 3 | My heart sank as I looked around . |
| 4 | He staggered as I clambered on , but stayed upright . |
| 5 | ‘ Thought you 'd backed out , ’ he muttered as I took off my damp coat . |
| 6 | ‘ So I noticed as I came through . ’ |
| 7 | I fought it open and my feet crunched as I went through . |
| 8 | ‘ Pounds , ’ I replied as I wrote out my name and address on the back of the particulars and left it on the counter . |
| 9 | ‘ Nothing , ’ I replied as I scrambled out of the trench , replacing the diary quickly in my hip pocket . |
| 10 | At the end of the alley I paused , waiting , but all I saw was the end of a nose which quietly withdrew as I stood there . |
| 11 | ‘ Only a rose — ’ I began as I held out my offering to my husband and I was just about to start on the second line when a Yorkshire pudding with onion gravy flew past my head and stuck with a plop on the ceiling . |
| 12 | ‘ I should n't think he wants to , ’ Perkin remarked as I had n't answered in a rush . |
| 13 | ‘ Must be getting back to Brigade H.Q , Sarge , ’ I remarked as I picked up my rifle and prepared to leave . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll never moan about hard work again , Jacko , ’ I lied as I set off to make a packed audience laugh like drains , with a face the colour of one and stomach that sounded like one . |
| 15 | ‘ Watch out ! ’ you yelled as I set off on holiday . |
| 16 | I would make myself some tea , I decided as I packed away my papers , then walk over to the post office to make my call to Crispin . |
| 17 | It was furnished with an ancient iron bedstead and a wooden table so decrepit that it collapsed as I walked past it . |
| 18 | Edward watched as I kicked off my shoes and socks , unbuckled my jeans and let them fall . |
| 19 | Fair enough , I thought as I walked home . |
| 20 | I thought as I turned over . |
| 21 | As someone working in television , I learned as I went along . |
| 22 | as far as the committee was concerned there is they 've taken a decision on the preferred route , but we did as I 've just referred to in the earlier work , er we did assess that erm and that showed again er that the traffic would n't transfer from the A sixty one onto a southern bypass and a inner northern relief road . |
| 23 | Taff enquired as I jumped down into the trench beside him . |
| 24 | I smiled as I passed by but he did n't see me . |
| 25 | They smiled as I hammed up my exhaustion , then carried on effortlessly climbing . |
| 26 | I smiled as I replied proudly , ‘ Sir , you do n't know much about European war . |
| 27 | I never complained as I went off to watch West Ham that afternoon , having scoffed his portion of chips . |
| 28 | Apparently when they pulled me out of the river and bashed the water out of my belly the first thing I said as I came round was , ‘ Riddled with diseases , I 'm sure ’ and the crew broke up in this hysterical laughter . |
| 29 | ‘ But it 's my time , ’ I said as I stood up , ‘ and I ca n't spare it . |
| 30 | " Watch that one , " they said as I sat down on one of the armchairs , " the seat falls through . " |