Example sentences of "as i [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As I wiped them on my pinafore Mr Vulcan asked what was wrong with me . |
| 2 | Too quickly , for my mother looked at me as I put them on the table . |
| 3 | Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them . |
| 4 | It was difficult to see what she was offering at first but as I took them from her I saw they were credit cards , an Access and a Visa , both made out in the name of Mrs J. A. Scamp . |
| 5 | As I follow them past Security and out into Whitehall Serafin is dropping library books and wild phrases about the metaphysics of desire . |
| 6 | The facts are as I reported them for FARMERS WEEKLY on Apr 27 , 1990 . |
| 7 | I try to take my youngsters to lots of little shows as soon as I consider them to be ‘ safe ’ . |
| 8 | I prefer to leave pictures just as I finish them in front of the subject . |
| 9 | As I loaded them in there was a sharp reminder of the night before . |
| 10 | As I placed them in the water , the bone-china cups and saucers became first glass then nothing ; the water was cold as a glacier . |
| 11 | ‘ I have a part interest , about to become sole if negotiations continue as I expect them to , in a tiny Portuguese-language radio station in Macau . |
| 12 | I try not to look at them closely , the patients , as I lead them in their paper bibs from the Chamber ; I keep visualizing my own viscera , and there is something solid and manmade in there , like a lead pipe , snagged and dragging . |