Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as I discovered on a one-day introductory course , enjoyment is also a priority . |
| 2 | This broad sketch helped me to explore the crayon 's versatility without using the final painting as a trial piece , it also helped keep the whole composition in mind as I concentrated on a specific detail in the finished painting . |
| 3 | Everyone had seen her arrive during morning assembly , her hair hanging loose as she leaned on a heavy walking-stick for support . |
| 4 | Sitting on the veranda herself a short while later as she worked on a lacy white shawl she was secretly knitting for the baby , Belinda murmured aloud , ‘ I hope Tom comes today . |
| 5 | Guilt gnawed at her as she pulled on a high-cut navy and white striped swimsuit , with a printed fuchsia flower breaking the uniform stripe over her left hip . |
| 6 | He stood before her as she sat on a low chair , and drenched her with his urine . |
| 7 | Another time she seemed to have nothing on under a grass skirt as she danced on a mirrored floor . |
| 8 | Head up the winding river Cleddau , as we did on a previous visit , and you 're soon in total country , the ‘ Little England beyond Wales ’ , a sweet part of the world . |
| 9 | The other two men were hit by the two gunmen as they stood on a nearby footpath at the spot where black taxis operate up and down Belfast 's Falls Road . |
| 10 | He suggested he drive her to his Harley Street surgery as they chatted on a quiet Bank Holiday Monday last year . |
| 11 | His advocacy of soldiers ' and workers ' councils put him wholly at variance with the Labour movement as it regrouped on a parliamentary socialist programme late in 1917 ; but it won him from Lenin and Litvinov the title of first Bolshevik consul for Britain , based in Scotland . |
| 12 | A crazed killer plunged a knife into his eye as he waited on a crowded platform . |
| 13 | He stood before the rusty , blood-stained block , his face covered by a black hood as he leaned on a great two-edged axe . |
| 14 | The estimable Anderson spoke half-truths as his friend and fellow bag-carrier , Billy Gunn , now explained as he sat on a green caddies ' bench and waited for the call to duty . |