Example sentences of "[noun sg] as i [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |
| 2 | It 's added a certain anticipation as well to the placement job I 've been doing — ‘ Oh come on someone must have something to say ’ was a regular feeling/thought as I looked at the monitor in anticipation . |
| 3 | He turned to the back seat as I swung under the arch and headed towards the Baños del Inca . |
| 4 | All kinds of thoughts raced through my mind as I waited for the explosion in our midst . |
| 5 | Images of animals huddled together for warmth , safety and companionship floated into my mind as I stood at the side of this man , watching him examine firearms . |
| 6 | For example , that the images that I now call up in my mind as I look at the front door of my house , this is something quite real , but it 's real in a much more radically different , in a radically different sense , there 's a , somehow a radically difference in the kind of reality which that image enjoys , to the reality that that bottle enjoys . |
| 7 | He was sitting in his jeep as I turned into the driveway . |
| 8 | One of the birds shat on Gravel as I pedalled up the path to town on the Tuesday morning . |
| 9 | She said : ‘ I brushed past a girl as I went to the toilet and she yelled I 'd done it deliberately . |
| 10 | I think I began to have more of an influence as I settled into the group . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sometimes the slaps and punches were for real now , and my mother would cry up the stairs in alarm whenever she heard a sudden thump as I fell on the floor or bumped into the furniture . |
| 13 | A dipper flew up from the burn as I emerged from the hut , his white breast flashing as he darted downstream . |
| 14 | I wonder if I may offer some thoughts on this theme as I reflect on the situation facing Catholic Christians in our Church today . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ It was very emotional for me and I had a tear in my eye as I came across the line . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ It was very emotional for me and I had a tear in my eye as I came across the line . |
| 17 | I first saw the Baroness as I walked up the drive of Askham Grange prison . |
| 18 | I had left most of my gear with the patron at Hostal America , gripping his elbow as I pointed to the shoulder-bag : ‘ Muy preciosa , señor . |
| 19 | Before I could say , ‘ You bastards ’ , they were specks in the mist as I huddled from the blizzard behind a boulder wondering if I wanted to be sick yet . |
| 20 | To cap all I suffered a physical hallucination as I staggered up the road beyond the inlet of Enard Bay : I could clearly see a row of cottages at the top of the hill but when I got there , they had vanished . |
| 21 | Here was the woman I wanted to marry , the woman I thought of every day as I looked beyond the cell to make plans for the future . |
| 22 | It is a warm and gentle day as I walk towards the wood that beckons me , cool and friendly . |
| 23 | One day as I arrived at the palace my horse shied at the sight of a white fragment on the ground . |
| 24 | A lovely lady , Molly Braithwaite , came to teach , and one day as I sat at the back I felt ‘ Surely I could do a little of that gently swinging ’ , picked up a club , and was off ‘ moving with the Medau ’ . |
| 25 | In this notebook , recording my random thoughts day after day as I work on the big glass , I can keep my distance from the big glass . |
| 26 | Important items of equipment have mysteriously gone missing : a headtorch , which was on my head as I returned to the car at the end of a Wasdale winter expedition but was nowhere to be found when I arrived back home ; or the key , map and information to a hut in Wales for which my club had recently gained reciprocal rights — all three items vanished between locking up the hut on our departure and arriving back home in South Cumbria . |
| 27 | She was alone in the house and she turned her head as I walked into the kitchen . |
| 28 | Would n't leave me all through the following night as I worked on the glass . |
| 29 | Jonathan 's still in his football boots , laces trailing , so I have a head start as I rush across the playground to where the crossing lady stands with her lollipop . |
| 30 | ‘ The pleasure of being top , and nothing else , except the interest of my father , made me do such homework as I did in the evenings … . |