Example sentences of "as i [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I blundered on in my explanation I realised he had forgotten all about it and if I had kept my mouth shut the problem need never have arisen . |
| 2 | I knew his name , and murmured it as I looked on from the supply hut , with my schnapps and my toilet paper : ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ . |
| 3 | As I looked up at him he placed a steaming hot mess-tin full of what looked like Machonachie stew on the floor of the barn beside me. |
| 4 | As I looked up into his steely blue eyes I admit I did wonder what disparaging thoughts he was thinking about me . |
| 5 | Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in . |
| 6 | I wondered , as I looked round at the massed ranks of chaps , young and old . |
| 7 | I felt sure that if Mr Reed had lived he would have treated me kindly , and now , as I looked round at the dark furniture and the walls in shadow , I began to fear that his ghost might come back to punish his wife for not keeping her promise . |
| 8 | As I looked round in the pale dawn light , a piece of paper caught my eye . |
| 9 | As I looked down at him lying there it was difficult to believe that this was Shimi Lovat . |
| 10 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 11 | The thrill turned to fear as I looked down from my splendid but insecure perch and the animal began to move . |
| 12 | The festivities started with a parade through the town led by the Houlton Silver Band and as I looked down from the windows of our bed-sitter I could see them all gathering in the street below . |
| 13 | Then , as I looked back at the dark , inscrutable carob tree , I did feel a faint touch of fear . |
| 14 | We talked of England : and my host was so inspiring in his eloquence on the subject of what England might have achieved in friendship with Germany that , as I looked out on the twilight enshrouding the Kurfiarstendamm I could think of nothing to say but Marlowe 's famous lines : |
| 15 | However , this sensation evaporated as soon as I looked out of the window , when I realized how imprisoned I was by my ignorance , which Aisha seized upon , exploiting the fact that I did n't know how to flush the toilet , work the shower , turn on the oven or boil the electric kettle to make tea , and that I could n't understand what her older child or her next-door neighbour said . |
| 16 | I heard a noise one night , like several motorbikes roaring down the road , only it was coming from above , and as I looked out of the window there they were — three red exhausts in the sky , blinding along a parallel course a few feet above the roof tops . |
| 17 | As I looked out of the window I noticed that frost was forming on cars . |
| 18 | As I looked out of the window into the black emptiness , I wondered about the great mystery of death , and thought of Helen Burns , who was so sure her spirit would go to heaven . |
| 19 | As long as I get up in the morning . |
| 20 | ‘ I will be , soon as I get out of this place . |
| 21 | As I get out of the second tube I see someone has been scratching letters off the sign above the door . |
| 22 | As soon as I get out of the Army . |
| 23 | We 're getting engaged as soon as I get back to England . ’ |
| 24 | But if we have everything ready to leave as soon as I get back from chess and I 'll make sure I leave promptly if we can come straight away then , with a bit of luck we 'll be on to the M twenty five b by half past four so we might |
| 25 | As I set out on that Christmas afternoon , I planned to learn as I went along . |
| 26 | But it passed , quicker than any marsh fever , as I set out on my journey to Berlin — and was replaced by emotion , by the accession of innumerable sensitivities , not without their pivotal elements of pain . |
| 27 | I would allow the appeal and give the directions as I set out in my judgment . |
| 28 | ‘ Watch out ! ’ you yelled as I set off on holiday . |
| 29 | snarled this sharp-faced old fellow as I stepped out of the kiosk . |
| 30 | A cordon of stagehands appeared from nowhere and surrounded me as I stepped out of the car . |