Example sentences of "as i [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He trotted breathlessly beside me as I strode like a madman through the snow , back to that accursed manor . |
| 2 | I can hassle for business contacts in these areas at conferences as soon as I get to a conference . |
| 3 | But sometimes I get cut up by another vehicle as I go for a space — and it 's always a man . ’ |
| 4 | It is a truth which I can never now forget as I go about a world in which human beings apparently have themselves under control . |
| 5 | As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink . |
| 6 | As I kneel in a kind of mourning , someone calls . |
| 7 | I then retraced my steps all the way back round to Crib Goch because the position of the sun allowed me renewed photo opportunities from its rim — a rim now 40 feet above me as I lay on a ledge . |
| 8 | wrong anyway in that er I 'll say it 's the er early on it in the report Good defines what he determines a prus trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively orb enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund er is against that duty in the first place , but it to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty which I will say stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 9 | Oh , I 'd say it is w wrong anyway in that er I say it 's the it 's early er on it in the report Good defines what he determines a trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively ought enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund then it is against that duty in the first place , but it 's to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty saying stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 10 | But as I said in a speech recently , we have a lot further to go , more progress to make and that is very much at the top of my agenda of , the agenda of my right honourable friend the education minister . |
| 11 | Or another where the leader chanted , As I went through a chinese town I met a chinese lady . |
| 12 | Wondering what would happen I tried pulling up on the boom as I went into a turn . |
| 13 | We changed the front brake master cylinder and spoiled the feel of the brake : if I tried to keep braking as I went into a corner , the front wheel would lock up and I would crash . |
| 14 | Later on that day I was sent into the Corporals ' quarters with a mop and bucket and as I went in a Corporal came out buttoning his flies . |
| 15 | ‘ As I came to a junction , a car pulled out in front of me from a road on the left . |
| 16 | As his book is mainly about the south , perhaps it had died out in Andalusia , though even there I remember being startled by its male authority as I walked past a café in Seville . |
| 17 | We separated , and as soon as I got into a side street , I went down it and there at the bottom was Cuttle 's Bakehouse . |
| 18 | On my way to my London flat , as I walk through a passageway leading from the Strand to Charing Cross underground station , I pass two young men sitting on a sheet on the floor and begging . |
| 19 | Oh it is now yes , you 've got , I mean you 've got the service now have n't you and erm , but I like at St Margaret 's hospital I 'd been , I had been , I went in there to have my last boy , but they 're very , very good there they were , I 've not been in , I 've been in , I 've had treatment here for my hip and that up at Harlow but they would n't do the operation because of my blood clotting you see , so therefore I 've got to grin and bear it , I 've had eight years of it , I could n't walk for six months , but now I struggle and get around as I say with a couple of sticks I get round |
| 20 | once , as I pranced on a ten-foot |
| 21 | As I lie in a ditch during the short rest and watch Jake the Algerian move along the road just ahead of me exclaiming ‘ A la attack ’ , a voice from somewhere along the road shouts , ‘ Oh , piss off ’ . |
| 22 | Again , as I recorded in a fieldnote , this assistant chief exhibited aspects of what I could only then describe as ‘ institutional paranoia ’ , when he went on to deride an unnamed social scientist who had been allowed research facilities inside a police force ( unspecified ) . |
| 23 | My son , aged four , believes in God and Jesus , as I did as a child . |
| 24 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 25 | As I work as a mechanic on diesel engines I had the opportunity of testing the output of the ‘ W ’ terminal , and it was , as the text books said , 7 to 8 volts . |
| 26 | As I work on a painting , whether it 's a bird of prey , a rare mammal or even rare habitat , I wonder how many more are left in the wild . |
| 27 | As I work in a distribution depot I can not use the vouchers at my ‘ place of work ’ . |
| 28 | One became a pitbull Poodle as I approached with a coat , and Bizzie ( pictured here ) just froze . |