Example sentences of "as i [verb] along " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I strode along , glaring at the ground , hating everything , I thought : I 'm not dealing with this matter a moment too soon . |
| 2 | There 's still some old leaves that ai n't been brushed up yet , so I kick at them as I go along . |
| 3 | The following Sunday Pat Muldoon stood in what had formerly been his local church at Gross Pointe , Michigan , and sang to the heavens , ‘ If I can help somebody , as I go along , then my living will not be in vain … . ’ without paying the slightest attention to the meaning of the words . |
| 4 | So I have to make decisions as I go along as to which points need to be spelled out , which of them can be stated sparely , or which of them do not need to be mentioned at all but can be left to be inferred . |
| 5 | ( I 've done dozens of lectures now , in front of all sorts of people , and I always make it up as I go along , although I suppose I must have a rough idea about what I 'm going to say . ) |
| 6 | As a matter of interest , I 'm totting up the sum of his holdings as I go along . |
| 7 | I 'm making this up as I go along , really . |
| 8 | I 'm like a great vacuum cleaner hoovering up everything as I go along , or like a catfish sucking up all the rubbish in an aquarium . |
| 9 | I work from the inside and come out and finish things as I go along . |
| 10 | I 'll get some things together and think , decide as I go along . |
| 11 | I much prefer being assessed as I go along , rather than having big exams at the end of the year . |
| 12 | I 'll decide as I go along . |
| 13 | Annoyance flickers across his face as I pass along the long trestle tables finding nothing to my satisfaction . |
| 14 | As I strolled along I watched an elasticated black kid , Felix 's age or maybe older , gangle past with his pretty little friend . |
| 15 | The giant palms lining the road inspected me disinterestedly as I coasted along trying to find the Alcade Apartments . |
| 16 | As I set out on that Christmas afternoon , I planned to learn as I went along . |
| 17 | It rarely took less than seven minutes to organize the few things I needed , so that day I rehearsed mentally as I went along : ‘ Choose the best place to stop . |
| 18 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 19 | As I unravelled the yarn , I wound it loosely around a single bed headboard , knitting the ends together as I went along . |
| 20 | As someone working in television , I learned as I went along . |
| 21 | I have has to pick up what mathematics I know as I went along . |
| 22 | I was making it up as I went along . |
| 23 | ‘ I said I overheard you and Tucker and also picked things up as I went along . |
| 24 | And as I had this urge to correct manuscripts as I went along , and could n't read his handwriting , and did n't know the first thing about Roman Britain , you can imagine he felt obliged to educate me . |
| 25 | and I need to ensure that this experience erm well I I need to make sure that I will be evaluating it in a similar way as I went along . |
| 26 | No sorry I 've deci , I said I 'd make it up as I went along ! |
| 27 | I saw his boat in the basin as I came along this morning . |
| 28 | It was so funny — as I walked along , rather disconsolate in the rain , at midday , I suddenly recollected it was Mayday , & knowing I ought to be bright & rejoicing I forthwith was so , at least for a time . |
| 29 | I 'd stamp up and down as I walked along , and up would pop the balls that had been buried in the sand . |
| 30 | But of course , I told myself as I walked along an echoing corridor , it never did hurt nowadays . |