Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in . |
| 2 | They 've been driving me mad ever since I moved in , but as soon as I come out with a gun they all disappear . |
| 3 | Thank you very much for supporting the evening , nice to see so many faces , as I said especially on a summer evening like today . |
| 4 | I got an elbow in the face as I went up for a header and I remember putting my head down and running straight into Bull 's back . |
| 5 | While I 'm digging that garden she used to go out roll in the trench what I 'd dug and soon as I went in for a drink she was in there before me ! |
| 6 | This , sadly was my last foray for the month as I went down with an attack of bronchitis soon after this expedition , and form which I have not fully recovered . |
| 7 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 8 | Sun streams into the upstairs room as I step gingerly through a maze of wires and find a corner to sit in amidst the jungle of electronic equipment . |
| 9 | Oh , yes , I got to know these well as I slunk past like a hungry fox in a deserted kitchen yard . |
| 10 | That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er |
| 11 | You 're very fortunate , as I pointed out to a group yesterday . |
| 12 | The bike 's many gears , light frame and thinnish tyres also make it highly suitable for cycle touring , as I found out on a weekend 's cycling trip in Normandy . |
| 13 | Klondyke Trading Co are responsible for providing a variety of straps for both the home market and the world , but as I found out on a recent visit there 's more to making one guitar strap than meets the eye , let alone producing thousands . |
| 14 | The tent is extremely stable especially in very high winds as I found out on a few wet and wild nights . |
| 15 | So as you come up to a roundabout , you 're thinking of the exit or exits . |
| 16 | The cool of the garden greeted you as you went in with a breath as welcome as that of the north wind at the top of a house during the season of akhet . |
| 17 | You could tackle the island 's one and only hill south of Es Calo , stop off for a welcome break at El Mirador and as you cool off with an iced drink , take in the panoramic view . |
| 18 | Hold on to this tension for a slow count to five , then let your feet relax and become limp as you breathe out with a sigh . |
| 19 | Now let go of the tension as you breathe out with a sigh of relief . |
| 20 | You will soon learn how it behaves in the pan , but if agonising doubts gather as you gaze down upon a yellow heavy flake , pick up a stone and crush the flake . |
| 21 | She dropped the keys into her bag and straightened up , a small cry escaping her as she walked straight into a large solid body . |
| 22 | And then , one Saturday , as she walked listlessly through a Matisse exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art , Caroline had run into a girl she knew from catalogue modelling . |
| 23 | THE jury in the Teeside Crown Court trial of two men accused of attacking a 17-year-old girl as she walked home after a night out is expected to reach a verdict today . |
| 24 | A woman has been attacked and raped by two men as she walked home from a pub . |
| 25 | A SEX attacker who pounced on a woman early on Sunday in Troon as she walked home from a night out is still being hunted by police . |
| 26 | And , as she walked innocently along a street to collect holiday snaps before returning to Lancashire , she was cut down by a bullet meant for a soldier . |
| 27 | Flustered anew , she felt a warm flush of embarrassment flood her face as she searched vainly for an answer . |
| 28 | As she flopped down in a corner seat , Constance looked at the man pushing her case on to the rack opposite . |
| 29 | A PENSIONER was raped early yesterday as she returned home from a church service . |
| 30 | She would hardly have been able to get as far as she had already without a very strong image of the outlines of the world , of her own personal dream . |