Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | By now I had almost convinced Rick to change to the boilie when I had another take on the Tropicana ; this was all the convincing he needed as I landed a nice mirror around the 12lb mark . |
2 | ‘ Good gracious , that was close ’ I said , as I heard a God-Almighty thud . |
3 | I had occasionally seen his photograph as I skimmed the financial sections of the newspapers . |
4 | My heart began to flutter as I lowered the heavy pyx into my pouch . |
5 | As I left the next shift was settling in for the day , writing up diaries , reading novels and brewing up endless cups of tea . |
6 | I 'll , I can endorse that by saying that we should n't , as I noticed a certain offhandedness with him that I did n't like at all . |
7 | Fenella must have heard me , as she appeared at her door as I reached the first landing . |
8 | As I rounded Ardmair Bay , the sky was bright but as I reached the scattered cottages and crofts of Strath Kanaird , none with an invitation to halt or stop , ominous yellow clouds formed overhead , obviously heralding a storm , and when Stac Polly came into sight , there was a spiralling column like a tornado above it . |
9 | I came across the garden 's central pavilion quite by chance , stumbling on it as I followed a dried water-course . |
10 | My lasting impressions of Plas-yn-Rhiw are of the great clumps of Fuchsia magellanica , its soft hazes of scarlet toning so well with the grey wall ; of an old pear tree and forsythia growing through the roof of the ruined dairy ; of the superb Magnolia campbellii mollicomata , planted by the Keatings in 1947 ; and of squeezing between box hedges down narrow grass passageways and ducking under arching pink rhododendrons and car-mine camellias as I followed the curving stone and cobbled paths . |
11 | We were to fly across , which suited me , as I had a morbid fear of being torpedoed at sea . |
12 | As long as I had a sympathetic host , of course . |
13 | I know , as I had a strict upbringing . |
14 | As I had a twelfth-hand Hillman Imp at the time I drove him down to his place in South London . |
15 | Our leader was soon grunting in a semi layback posture , and as I had the appropriate page open , I could not resist reading out loud : ‘ … |
16 | Even as I wrote the final corrections to the first edition of this text in January 1973 , a splendid , though destructive new tear had Opened across the island of Heimaey , south of Iceland , and new oceanic crust was being formed . |
17 | She was right , of course ; but as I cycled the short distance home I kept worrying at the problem , juggling the pieces frustratingly in my mind , and making no sense at all . |
18 | But as I surveyed the grand vista of my 47 ft plot , one fact became clear : in their struggle for power , many of my shrubs were now far too big for their boots . |
19 | As I passed the palatial ship of Gharr the Gherpotean , I saw that it was shut up tight , with no sign of activity . |
20 | I have n't been into her bedroom though I saw some chair legs and a pair of shoes as I passed the half-open door . |
21 | Now Lynne Taylor is Regional Executive for the Chest , Heart and Stroke Association , Lynne er is it , this is er as I said a new week , are , you hopeful that it 's , it 's working well ? |
22 | But our affair wo n't end until desire ends , and , as I said the other night , we 've not done with each other yet . ’ |
23 | You mentioned erm tumours , in fact you get this as I said the same picture with , with X-rays as you get with magnetic resonance imaging , but what is different about tumours apparently is that the erm relaxation time with which the erm nuclei move erm varies erm according to whether a cell is , is cancerous or not . |
24 | My inability to unbelieve in him hung on to me by the jaws , as I ascended the corporate ladder . |
25 | We could feel the tension among the large audience of Spaniards and British and Americans , a tension that relaxed into applause as I blew the last candle out and the room lamps came on . |
26 | As I told the Select Committee — I make no apologies for reminding the hon. Gentleman of it — anything going beyond that would raise huge implications for all kinds of investments . |
27 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I have not yet seen a reply from the chief executive , but my understanding is that the position is exactly as I told the Hon. Gentleman in Committee . |
28 | It was only natural that my thoughts should be on the life and work of my friend Robert W. Service as I walked the untidy streets of Whitehorse four decades after the roaring pandemonium of the gold rush days . |
29 | The ground felt as I imagined a first world war battlefield might feel — all pits and trenches — but dry . |
30 | ‘ It 's exactly as I imagined an old family home , ’ Sir Henry said . |