Example sentences of "as i [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I looked down at him lying there it was difficult to believe that this was Shimi Lovat . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As I looked down a tube as empty as Outer Space , I pushed away from my board and dove for the bottom . |
| 4 | The thrill turned to fear as I looked down from my splendid but insecure perch and the animal began to move . |
| 5 | As I looked down I could n't believe I was being asked to attempt it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As I stepped down the steep treads I heard the too loud click of shoe leather on metal . |
| 8 | And this started a stampede amongst the rest of the herd and as I advanced down the field with them all in close pursuit I somehow managed to clear a four stranded barbed wire fence like an Olympic champion . |
| 9 | I always say that I enjoyed the R and R but it was as I go down |
| 10 | I might want to poke my tongue out at those new cameras as I slow down to pass them , but deep down even I know that they 're there for my protection . |
| 11 | For my first as I put down in my erm blurb before , will be to meet you in small or large groups throughout the Euro constituency , and see what you can do to help me and to convince you erm that I will be a a good campaign leader , a good candidate . |
| 12 | Now , as I put down my pen , I bring the life of unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end . |
| 13 | I am sharply aware of every move I make , each crack of sound as I put down a cup , each dull ring as I move a spoon , each splash of water , squeak of the tap , thud of my shoe on the floor . |
| 14 | He is starting his reply as I put down the receiver . |
| 15 | As I strolled down the next fairway and skirted a mass of heather which cut into the fairway on the angle of the dogleg , I wondered how my boss , Jack Mason , would fare in the tournament . |
| 16 | He describes his other grandmother as ‘ a wee frail woman ’ in a mob cap , smoking a long clay pipe and ‘ stroking my hair as I lay down at her feet with my head in her lap ’ , while her railwayman husband also ‘ had a great liking for me , and when he could spring to a halfpenny or an apple or some nuts for ‘ whiteheaded Benny ’ , he did it , Once he gave me a shining white metal watchguard ’ , a symbol of work efficiency which he wore proudly to school , ‘ swanking ’ with it hung across my chest . ’ |
| 17 | As I eased down I glanced over at the clock ; it read 10.01 . |
| 18 | I remember a December night : I heard the church clock strike nine as I went down into the garden — it was warm enough to walk . |
| 19 | This , sadly was my last foray for the month as I went down with an attack of bronchitis soon after this expedition , and form which I have not fully recovered . |
| 20 | As I went down in the lift I thought it pretty clever of Purvis to get the bike rider 's licence . |
| 21 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 22 | It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent . |
| 23 | Could it be , I mused , as I snuggled down into the Dodge 's heavily bolstered bucket seat on the autostrada running north of Milan to Switzerland , that Detroit has finally built a competent , European-style sporting saloon ? |
| 24 | As I stare down with racing heart , the hand seems to shrink , and grow plump . |
| 25 | Thought of him tonight as I walked down to the river . |
| 26 | It was growing dark as I walked down the pier alone , his jacket draped over my shoulders , and I wondered if I should really look for Wilde at all . |
| 27 | Rickie was literally dancing in circles around me as I walked down the dock towards his sister , but then he paused in his frenetic progress to light one cigarette from the stump of another , and I wondered just what perverted fate decreed that such a boy should receive a legacy of six million dollars . |
| 28 | Ben was saying the other day that soon they would drop out as I walked down to the shops ! ’ |
| 29 | It was as fine an afternoon as you could wish for as I slowly descended to Malham Beck , the Cove coming into view on my left as I walked down . |
| 30 | It was this image that accompanied me as I walked down the rue de Fleuve , stopping for a final coup d'oeil at the squat church crouching on its gravel ground . |