Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presentation of the cup was made by Ian Proudfoot , Group Finance Director to Halbert Oliver , Captain of Douglas Reyburn 's team as everyone gathered in the hotel after the match . |
| 2 | There was an instant relieving of the tension as everyone joined in the laughter . |
| 3 | As I waited in the porch with the bridesmaids , I saw Shanti get out of the car , take her father 's arm , and walk towards us . |
| 4 | As I lay in the ditch I was suddenly conscious of a very strong indescribably sickly smell . |
| 5 | I had hoped to slip in unnoticed but , almost as soon as I booked in the hotel , I was isolated by a dusk to dawn curfew . |
| 6 | In the sociology of the 1960s and 1970s , as I noted in the Introduction , much attention was given , especially by those thinkers who can be regarded broadly as Marxist structuralists , to an analysis of the hidden ‘ logic of structures ’ , or ‘ structural causality ’ . |
| 7 | As I took in the traffic thundering by beneath me and relived in my mind my alarming experience , my trepidation returned . |
| 8 | As I said in the case of No 617 Squadron , their enormous success on the Dams raid and on some of the less spectacular sorties that they had flown , rubbed off on all 617 's sorties thereafter . |
| 9 | As I said in the punchcard article , a lace carriage for the chunky machine is not feasible , at least in the immediate future . |
| 10 | ‘ One night after a gig in Whelans , I went down to The Nightrain and as I came in the door I heard this note-perfect rock music , ’ he says . |
| 11 | ‘ Hello , ’ he said , as I paused in the doorway . |
| 12 | As I walked in the door I was greeted by a new son and a strange emotional mixture of delight and disappointment at not having been there . |
| 13 | He said I ca n't I 'm here on my own , he said get a cab and I 'll give you the money back , so anyway I rung Pauline 's husband up Steve and he said I 'll take you , I said to Steve I 've got ta get there for one o'clock cos I said I really do feel that if I do n't see him before he goes I ai n't gon na bloody see him , he was ever so good , he were here at twenty to one , got straight in the car put his foot down , went to the General and just as I got in the door Steve do n't worry about me parking , go , I 'll find you , just get in there , I ran through the bloody doors , ran up the stairs cos I knew |
| 14 | I can tell you , Donald , it was a very unpleasant experience , particularly as I fainted in the street just as the thief disappeared . |
| 15 | We can , at the very least , as I suggested in the opening passage , approach a site barefoot , making a direct link with the Earth . |
| 16 | He was moody all the time , with a flashing temper , and when Changez was at home , nursing his bad arm , Anwar came to me as I worked in the store-room . |
| 17 | And as soon as I settled in the rue Victorie , I discovered I was very useful indeed . |
| 18 | As I stated in the house during the debate on the seventh of er July , the plant commission established by the Labour party to look into electoral systems proposed as one of its many recommendations , a system of proportional representation , the regional list system for the European parliament . |
| 19 | I think I thought I wanted to be part of that companionship too but knew it would conclude with my entry But that did n't have to happen because he was closing the kitchen door behind him as I arrived in the passage . |
| 20 | As I dangled in the middle of our first abseil there was a sound like a freight train out of a tunnel as a large section of mountainside decided to share our icefield . |
| 21 | As I crouched in the slit trench in the semi-darkness I could hear the odd British shell that had been intended for the Germans but had dropped short in the orchard explode with a terrific roar close at hand , causing a shower of dirt to fall from the roof of the trench . |
| 22 | Spirit and flesh both quailed before so difficult and rowdy an audience on so difficult and perilous a subject … as I sat in the committee room while the order of the meeting was being arranged , and heard my audience shouting , singing , crowing like cocks … and keeping up a continuous uproar , I thought to myself , ‘ I have got to go into that and control it somehow so as to be heard ’ … |
| 23 | As I sat in the mouth of the cave looking out at the change in the weather , I wondered how a man in the Old Stone Age must have felt , staring out at the rain , knowing that if it did n't let up soon he 'd have to go out in it and knock a mammoth on the head for tea . |
| 24 | A couple of hours later , as I sat in the hostel kitchen , a message came over the radio that a body had been found . |
| 25 | As I sat in the bus on my way , strange things began to happen to me . |
| 26 | As I mentioned in the chapter on managing money , you can take out a special pet insurance to help you cope will all the bills . |
| 27 | As I mentioned in the chapter on ‘ Teachers ’ , the Bible has got a lot of things to say about how we get on with other people . |
| 28 | As I mentioned in the chapter describing the actual techniques of pressing ( see pp. 36–45 ) , it is essential to dismantle red roses , or any roses of the hybrid tea or floribunda varieties , and to press them as individual petals . |
| 29 | And as I appeared in the entrance I was suddenly conscious that I was the centre of attention . |
| 30 | Water oozed through the sodden cardboard inner soles , hastily fitted over the holes in my cheap plastic shoes as I stood in the rain outside the courtroom . |