Example sentences of "as [pers pn] walk [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I walked to the fair I noticed a polystyrene cup , a discarded baby 's dummy and a chicken leg ; hardly a balanced diet for a fox . |
| 2 | It was a large field and I could see the barn at the far end as I walked with the tall grass brushing my knees . |
| 3 | It was a cold , wet , typically late autumnal afternoon as I walked along the old trackbed , avoiding the many puddles of murky rainwater on my way . |
| 4 | But as I walked across the jarred and cratered road and sensed the usual quickenings of irony and aggression I also sensed something further — I sensed that my weight , my mass , my meat was being appraised , registered , scaled , not with lust , no , but with a carnal speculation I had never felt before . |
| 5 | At the hotel I paid him in cash with a bonus and sent him on his way , and was in time to see Filmer 's backview receding into a dark-looking bar as I walked into the big central hall lobby . |
| 6 | I could hear the shotgun barking as I walked through the dim , dripping woods from the house , staying off the muddy path as much as possible and walking on the flattened , exhausted-looking grass at its side to keep my shoes from clogging up . |
| 7 | One afternoon , as I walked under the tall arches of the Palazzo della Pilotta , the immense , pale-pink building constructed in the time of the Farnese with millions of thin bricks , a fat middle-aged man exposed himself to me . |
| 8 | As I walked down the front steps for the last time , a feeling of elation swept over me . |
| 9 | There was still a Mediterranean atmosphere , as I could see as I walked beneath the Spanish arch along the cobbled quayside towards the harbour . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She was aware of faces staring at her as she walked along the paved streets , and she swayed over the uneven surface like a seasick sailor . |
| 12 | As she walked along the High Street , these thoughts had infiltrated her mind like the scouts of an advancing army of depression and self-pity . |
| 13 | The fifteen year old victim told police she was assaulted a year ago as she walked along the High Street in Oxford . |
| 14 | As she walked into the big sitting-room , Mike Booker walked into the suite again . |
| 15 | Matt , thought Sara , as she walked towards the Black Lion . |
| 16 | Fran took a deep breath then opened the door , willing her legs to support her as she walked across the weed-strewn gravel towards him . |
| 17 | As she walked down the tree-lined road in the pitch black she managed to suppress her fear of the dark . |
| 18 | The eighteen year old woman was grabbed by a man in his thirties as she walked down the isolated track . |
| 19 | Katherine , as she walked through the enlarged sweep of the living room with its creamy raw silk textures , its mix of low-slung sofas and older more ornately curved chairs , was radiant with satisfaction . |
| 20 | ‘ What a disgusting thing to do , ’ she said aloud , as she walked through the silent house , picking up two items of Nick 's clothing from where he had flung them almost into the utility room . |
| 21 | Elisabeth was awed by the intensity of feeling awakened in her as she walked through the primeval forest , alone . |
| 22 | They both knew that as we walked off the 16th . |
| 23 | As we walked towards the white chalk cliffs , a cacophony of sound greeted us : gruntings , trumpetings , squaw kings , me wings , growlings . |
| 24 | I patted the three tees in my pocket as we walked to the 18th tee . |
| 25 | As we walked through the open-air lobby on our way to the beach , we drew a lot of curious looks from the other guests at the resort . |
| 26 | He was still shouting as they walked past the barbed wire and the concrete blocks down to the waterline . |
| 27 | ‘ Tell me , ’ said Robert , as they walked up the High Street , ‘ and I 'm not going on about it , but exactly why did Ali sentence me to death ? ’ |
| 28 | As they walked over the little grey bridges that spanned the canals , as she stared up at tall Dutch gables or floodlit towers , Luke told her a little of the history of the city . |
| 29 | " I do n't think , " she said to Enid as they walked through the tall wrought-iron gates , " I do n't think I shall be coming to Kew ever again . " |
| 30 | ‘ It could backfire , of course , ’ Dr Russell said as they walked towards the front steps together . |