Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you very much for supporting the evening , nice to see so many faces , as I said especially on a summer evening like today . |
| 2 | As I came home on the boat , I thought : ‘ This is a good thing , a fine thing , perhaps . |
| 3 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
| 4 | As she sucked thoughtfully on the cigarette her mind wandered back to the contents of the dossier they had prepared on Benin . |
| 5 | She smiled , excitement bubbling inside her as she perched precariously on the edge of a jetty . |
| 6 | He took his time about going through them , examining each one individually , making no comments , keeping her in suspense , as she perched apprehensively on the edge of her chair . |
| 7 | But , as she stood undecidedly on the threshold , Marc appeared through a door at the far end . |
| 8 | Good piece of work , Joe , he thought with some satisfaction , as she turned slowly on the wire . |
| 9 | as we drifted apart on the waterlogged groundsheet . |
| 10 | We hope that you will continue to provide us with this vital information as we embark together on the second piloting year . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't forget to be at the meeting tomorrow then , ’ we prompted as we trod carefully on the clumps of dry grass as if they were stepping-stones . |
| 12 | The camera was set up to cover the interior of the store , and the images of the men , filmed as they walked past on the pavement outside , are not clear . |
| 13 | In other words , we would deal with applications as they come forward on an ad hoc basis where the onus onus would be on the developer to prove er prove exceptional circumstances . |
| 14 | As they sat together on the grass , she looked at the tumbling waters of the beck and told him how Maria had slipped on the stepping-stones , down by the farm . |
| 15 | At last , Guido said it , as they stood together on the edge of the dance-floor and he dropped a kiss into her hair . |
| 16 | A lost love or family tragedy had the same impact on a Ukrainian living 300 years ago as it does today on a 30-year-old singer living in Leeds . |
| 17 | These short studies are in part historical , but partly art criticism ; the study of Leinberger is particularly relevant , as it comments both on an encounter with a sculpture and the problems of reading about it . |
| 18 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |
| 19 | His instincts , honed over the years as he lived continuously on the threshold of danger , warned him that things were about to change . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll be back , ’ he tells you as he sweats away on the treadmill or the mountain bike . |
| 21 | The other men watched as he tapped gently on the desk top . |
| 22 | As he landed heavily on the linoleum , the doctor called to him : ‘ Tell her I 'll be paying the ten shillings or she wo n't come . ’ |
| 23 | He screamed as he landed heavily on the vibrating flagstones . |
| 24 | Lienhardt , writing of the Dinka of the southern Sudan , provides support for Romaine 's view but also suggests a further elaboration of it , impinging as he does so on a number of the issues raised here . |
| 25 | His garments were of the forest and he seemed a part of it as he sat there on a tree-stump , small , compact , a broken shape of browns , fawns , russets and greens . |
| 26 | As he stood politely on the doorstep seeing her away , Bunny Chaloner cycled out of the lane which ran alongside the orchard and led to the stables . |
| 27 | As he dwelt particularly on the menace of the French positions on the Left Bank , the Heir to the Throne must have had some difficulty hiding a note of ‘ I-told-so-you-so ’ For Falkenhayn , in his insistence on limiting the attack to one bank only , had stood in an isolation that was hardly splendid . |