Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | you see We was working together and you know a a few benches from each other and of course as I told you the the lads worked with a man . |
| 2 | As I handed them the keys to their new home it was like unlocking the door to their future happiness . ’ |
| 3 | But as I handed him the money the room grew quiet again . |
| 4 | just as I did it the bloody filter light came on |
| 5 | ‘ There , Mr Cottle , ’ Mary Ann was saying to the traveller in jelly , as she passed him the bread and butter , ‘ this 'll put roses in your cheeks . ’ |
| 6 | Their hands touched as she passed him the bottle . |
| 7 | She tried not to imagine his sympathetic brown eyes looking into hers , and his disarming smile when she spoke to him , perhaps their hands touching as she passed him the local anaesthetic — This is no use ! she admonished herself , rubbing energetically at a stainless steel trolley . |
| 8 | But as she reached him the vision shimmered and disappeared and she was alone , stumbling as she tried to find her way through the shadows of a forest , mist cloaking the branches of the trees . |
| 9 | That was what he meant to Mrs Sairellen Thackray as she served him the first of her good dinners of boiled beef and potatoes and onions towards which the town 's Chartists had all made their contributions . |
| 10 | Her tone grew colder as she realized what the sergeant meant . |
| 11 | Although even as she said it the thought rushed through her mind that that was exactly what she was doing now . |
| 12 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |
| 13 | Suddenly she knew the answer , even as she asked herself the question , and realised what she had to do . |
| 14 | Faye whispered , her eyes misting and her throat going froggy as she showed them the tiny black-haired bundle cradled tightly in her arms . |
| 15 | As she showed him the barn , they began to talk of the forest . |
| 16 | Glendambo is the last petrol station for 200 kilometres , " warned the Budget car-hire girl , as she handed me the keys to a six-cylinder Holden Commodore . |
| 17 | As she handed him the cup of tea her tone changed : ‘ Not that I 'm against joking , but everything in its place ; when I 'm here with Aunt Lizzie , we chaff each other , but … but not all the time . ’ |
| 18 | Merrill protested as she handed him the file . |
| 19 | ‘ I know what you mean , ’ she murmured , willing her hands to remain steady as she handed him the cup . |
| 20 | ‘ Everything 's fine , my darling , ’ she whispered , giving Constance a little pat as she handed her the telephone . |
| 21 | Alighting hesitantly , she cast anxious eyes around her , wondering just where her hotel was , as she paid him the exact amount on the meter , feeling strangely guilty as she refrained from adding a tip in accordance with the multi-lingual notice in the cab . |
| 22 | Richard hugged her as she gave him the keys . |
| 23 | As we examined it the man from behind the desk appeared soundlessly at our side . |
| 24 | All the girls helped her to get the fire going , spread the tablecloth , put out the cups and plates , laughing and whispering and bustling about as they showed her the places and secrets of the kitchen , the room that was now her room . |
| 25 | As they showed her the house , Rose seemed to enter completely into the terrible awareness of Moran now sitting in the car chair meditatively rotating his thumbs about one another . |
| 26 | There were no squabbles … as long as they did everything the same as anybody else and paid their fees , which were exactly the same . |
| 27 | On the lower rung of legal self-determination the grant of customary franchises might be in a lord 's interests , for it could secure his revenues in perpetuity , even as it barred him the chance of arbitrary exaction ; besides , an early concession might prevent more explosive demands later . |
| 28 | It was the first time I had seen a ship built from scratch and it was quite an experience to watch the steel plates being cut by their ingenious machine which controlled a cutter as it drew our the required shapes direct from the blueprint , converting everything to full scale as it cut . |
| 29 | For example , he took comfort from the deflationary economic measures of July 1966 , which he opposed , as it gave him the chance ‘ to reassert collective Cabinet authority because I see how disastrous it is to allow Cabinet government to decline into mere Prime Ministerial government … if I achieved anything it was by asserting the right of Cabinet to take part in the making of economic strategy so that Harold conceded we must be given that right ’ . |
| 30 | Ackroyd knew immediately where he meant and his blood ran cold as he knew what the foreman was going to say next . |