Example sentences of "as you [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps it is as you travel to work , or as you take the dog out for a walk , or as you walk on the Downs , or when you have that quiet morning cup of coffee .
2 Loose boards will creak annoyingly as you walk over them , and raised edges or pronounced warping may show as lines through your new floorcovering .
3 You go into a café where the sight and smell of freshly baked Danish pastries hits you squarely in the face as you walk through the door .
4 Shiver as you walk through this animated museum depicting scenes from Stoker 's spine-chiller .
5 Colour is the first thing that hits you as you walk through the door .
6 As you walk through the streets of Funchal , particularly the small , narrow , side streets , you can see many artisans practising crafts now rarely seen in the mass-production economies of northern Europe and North America .
7 As you walk through the industrial towns you lose yourself in labyrinths of little brick houses blackened by smoke , festering in planless chaos round miry alleys and little cindered yards where there are stinking dustbins and lines of grimy washing and half-ruinous w.c.s. … at their very worst the Corporation houses are better than the slums they replace .
8 As you walk through the door , however , you see something that exists nowhere else : a secret garden .
9 The scent of jasmine greets you as you walk through a creepered archway into the wide lawn .
10 As soon as you walk through the archway , I mean you 'd expect it to be an open
11 Still , if you do n't mind suspending your disbelief as you walk into the cinema , Deceived is a cut above recent thrillers like Shattered and A Kiss Before Dying , though hardly up to the standard of Fatal Attraction or Jagged Edge .
12 And in each step as you walk along it , and it 's a , it 's a goldfish pond .
13 As you walk up the stairs , the noise grows and you know it is going to be a hot reception .
14 The tension of the piece is based on its difference in elevation ; on the fact that one element reads as a horizontal volume , its top plane clearly below eye level , whereas the other rises vertically above your eye level as you walk towards it .
15 You hold the log out in front of you as you walk towards the bed .
16 As you walk in the room , you wo n't be immediately faced by a swinging watch .
17 Think of all the information your eyes collect for you as you walk in the street , talk to someone , catch a train , read a newspaper , take part in a meeting .
18 The other exciting thing was the leeches er because the monsoon had n't finished there were lots of leeches around , and I 'd imagined these huge things that were going to suck me to death , but they 're actually little , like , just very very tiny little worms , about erm an inch long and very thin and what they do is they sit on leaves and things and as you walk by they get flicked on to your boots or your socks and then they wiggle their way in and they , you ca n't feel them there , but what they do is they suck your blood until they explode
19 As you walk round the corner to the museum entrance , notice the fine gateway to the left where Adrian Vredeman de Vries lived .
20 ‘ I 'm interested in sequential imagery ’ , he says , ‘ in building things which , as you walk around them , give an unfolding , a sort of sequential narrative .
21 Breeding birds include great artic skuas which dive at your head as you walk near their territories , rock doves , ringed plovers and red-throated divers .
22 looking at the interviewer as you speak to each other ;
23 The rate of call as you close with the track should be every 1–15 seconds .
24 ‘ Oh ; as soon as you put on your robe and I could think of something else . ’
25 Feed a pinch of crushed flake as you put in pellets for the adult fish .
26 You are presented with a blank crossword and a list of clues , and as you click on a square the relevant clue is highlighted .
27 ‘ I do n't know ; you forgot what she looked like as you listened to her .
28 What 's more , the toolbox will change automatically as you switch between programs , should you so desire , to load the right set of buttons for the application you 're in .
29 One little ‘ running yourself in ’ problem may occur as you switch to this healthier pattern of eating .
30 As you drive about the countryside next weekend , and especially if you find yourself approaching a town or village once famous for its market days , look out for places along the route where flanking hedges stand back several yards off the road .
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