Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had tossed and turned — as she had for a fortnight — thinking of Amy , full of foreboding . |
| 2 | Her hand shook slightly as she reached for a swab , and the child began to whimper as she gently began trying to clear the affected area in order to get a better look . |
| 3 | Once or twice , Jack had casually goosed her as she reached for a file . |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe , ’ he said , sitting on her side of the bed as she reached for a woman 's magazine , ‘ maybe I 'm gay ! ’ |
| 5 | A pregnant woman lost her baby after she fainted as she waited for a bus and fell into the path of a lorry driven by her uncle . |
| 6 | He was finally restrained by police after he grabbed Mrs Rodham as she waited for a bus . |
| 7 | Dawn astonished doctors by becoming pregnant as she waited for a hysterectomy after being told she would never have a child . |
| 8 | Mitch knelt beside her as she lay for a moment on the ground . |
| 9 | As she looked for a hiding place she could hear the voices increasing in volume . |
| 10 | He read out her time of departure , time of arrival and flight number , advising her to write it all down as if she was a half-wit , and she was glad he was n't there to see her face as she scrabbled for a pen and paper . |
| 11 | The Darling Buds of May star was clearly suited to Blue Peter presenter John Leslie as she arrived for a show on London 's Capital Radio . |
| 12 | Things got off to a bad start anyway when my Reliant Robin was crushed by Pahdra Singh 's Bentley as we jostled for a parking place . |
| 13 | That morning seemed endless as we waited for an ambulance to transport the most urgent cases to the hospital . |
| 14 | Royal wedding fever gripped spectators at a Highland Games meeting yesterday — as they hoped for an announcement on the possible marriage of Princess Anne and Commander Tim Laurence . |
| 15 | ‘ I had no idea it was so beautiful around here , ’ Lisa murmured as they paused for a moment on a promontory to admire the view that stretched out before them . |
| 16 | Their necks stretched as they tried for a beak hold . |
| 17 | Their grey sandy fur was ruffed out for warmth and occasionally he saw the snarl of their teeth as they turned for a moment on each other in play . |
| 18 | Thereafter , the party made steady progress during the late 1930s as it campaigned for a policy of collective security against the threat of European fascism almost , it seemed , in the face of the complacency of Neville Chamberlain 's National government . |
| 19 | Within six days , on 3 May 1862 , the young boy died , Benjamin declaring as he applied for a certificate that he had been present at the death . |
| 20 | One man was shot four times in the legs as he went for a walk . |
| 21 | You must learn to have a little more confidence in your … ’ he hesitated , his firmly-moulded lips slightly parted as he searched for a word ‘ … desirability . ’ |
| 22 | The horse galloped madly round the pen , head turned to the outside as he searched for an opening . |
| 23 | Twenty-seven year old Alan Dobbs from Tredworth in Gloucester collapsed at Schipol airport as he waited for a flight to Briatin . |
| 24 | As he waited for a colleague delivering mail to Mr Reenan 's £300,000 Oxfordshire home , Ron said : ‘ One minute he 's talking about going to Diana , the next he 's gone to a newspaper . |
| 25 | The 27-year-old , from Hornsey , north London , died in hospital after being attacked as he waited for a train with his brother at Finsbury Park Tube station . |
| 26 | It 's a very personal way of thinking and writing which we have encountered several times already , and which now , twenty-seven years after that letter to his brother , appears most insistently with Raskolnikov as he Paused for a moment to take breath , to collect himself , and to enter as a man ’ and tell the police who it was killed the old money-lender and her sister . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's where you 're wrong , ’ I said as he reached for a pen . |
| 28 | ‘ Ice ? ’ he enquired , as he reached for a glass and Shiona seated herself in one of the armchairs . |
| 29 | " But there was a time long ago when the cassowary could fly as well as the bower-bird. " the old man rumbled as he reached for a sweetcorn in the cinders . |
| 30 | He plunged into it , and the mud closed over his head as he struggled for a footing . |