Example sentences of "as [pron] approach the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bell rings and as I approach the front door I can see Mrs Marsh through the frosted glass . |
| 2 | This was not something upon which I wished to dwell , as I approached the narrowest section of the ridge . |
| 3 | The café looked deserted as I approached the front door . |
| 4 | As she approached the front entrance , the door suddenly opened and Eleanor came out . |
| 5 | She proved to be the Glisseuse , a rather shabby forty foot motor cruiser , difficult to see on Venturous ' radar , so that much of the time she had to be kept at visual distance , especially as she approached the busy traffic lanes of the Thames . |
| 6 | As she approached the old mill , where the lane was bordered by the mill stream , she noticed a cyclist approaching her . |
| 7 | That she writes boldly to Artemisia concerning her frustration , and more timorously to Lucinda , suggests partly a lingering ambivalence over the choices she has made , and , more proximately , a nervousness as she approached the literary world . |
| 8 | But as we approach the far bank the hole seems to take more and more of the balls . |
| 9 | Britain , as we approach the second millennium , is far from that place . |
| 10 | As we approach the third millennium , women will become less materialistic and more spiritual . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend has made a very important point , which I suspect will become more important as we approach the coming election . |
| 12 | As we approach the last years of the 20th century , environmental damage to the earth , air and water threaten the basic resources on which we depend . ’ |
| 13 | The roller-coaster cliff-top walk was tiring but both Vanessa and I were spurred on as we approached the final climb up Golden Cap . |
| 14 | But , after a glorious day 's exploring , by the time we turned for home the weather had become very wild , and as we approached the first barrier , waves were breaking fiercely over the road . |
| 15 | Civilisation soon came back into evidence again as we approached the small collection of buildings of North Eggardon Farm . |
| 16 | As we approached the ramshackle pier the Mantela stopped her engines , waited , then , as though changing gear , trembled into a slow approach . |
| 17 | Now it was on to " Ultima Thule " and we felt we were really in the far north , nearer to Norway than to the UK mainland as we approached the jagged headland of Sumburgh , ringed ominously with the chart symbol for a " rost " [ tide race ] on our chart . |
| 18 | Everyone was up on the sun deck in the early morning as we approached the magnificent twin peaks of this imposing looking island . |
| 19 | Devon Loch had appeared to take off right by the water jump , which the runners on the second circuit of the Grand National by-pass as they approach the winning post : had he caught that fence out of the corner of his eye and tried to jump it ? |
| 20 | That has now been achieved and , although we know that a long road awaits the negotiators , it is refreshing to see the leaders of the Palestinian people at the conference table and to watch their demeanour as they approach the massive problems . |
| 21 | As they approached the curved horn of the dead bull , Nathaniel Sherman began pumping the hand of his eldest son in congratulation . |
| 22 | He has described the moment which put him and his mount into Grand National legend as they approached the twenty-third fence : |
| 23 | As they approached the front door of Greystones Helen heard the telephone ringing within . |
| 24 | ‘ Dinky houses , ’ said David , as they approached the front door . |
| 25 | On the golf-course behind him a foursome of players shouted to one another as they approached the fourteenth green . |
| 26 | The windows were lit by the flames of thousands of beeswax candles and , as they approached the main entrance , they heard faint strains of music , chatter , and the sounds of merriment . |
| 27 | The countryside became more deserted , farmsteads and villages more sparse as they approached the green mass of trees on the far horizon which Corbett knew must be the great Forest of Ettrick . |
| 28 | Paula was tense as they approached the German frontier post beyond Echternach in Luxembourg . |
| 29 | The coach arrived early in the afternoon , and as it approached the front entrance Silas went out to meet it . |
| 30 | First the spiral opens out as it does in a shell , but then closes up again as it approaches the other pole of the cell . |