Example sentences of "but as [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as we walked further the noise we had heard , which at first might have been taken for wind and rain , began to break up into shouts , cries , calls , over a ground-bass which I can only call a sigh : a deep sigh , repeated over and over , as if the wide world itself were sighing . |
| 2 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |
| 3 | But as we travelled down a lovely wooded valley towards the north coast at Alta , the sun appeared below the clouds near midnight and we stopped to take our first pictures of the midnight sun . |
| 4 | They wheeled him rapidly into Resus. , Kathleen snapping out instructions right , left and centre , but as they peeled back the blanket to examine him , even Kathleen after all the years she had been working in A and E was shocked at the extent of his injuries . |
| 5 | ‘ Once I hit the 2O mile mark I started to feel stronger and my speed picked up slightly , but as I ran up the Mall towards Buckingham Palace I discovered a new meaning to the word pain . |
| 6 | I could n't see anything from road level because of the hedgerow but as I started up the second switch of the hill , I noticed an Escort estate car parked on the left opposite the police barrier . |
| 7 | But as I drew nearer the crag became smaller still , the stature of the brightly garbed climbers , who were smaller still , creating the optical illusion . |
| 8 | But as she made out the figure who stood darkly outlined against the blaze of the picture window 's light , she stopped abruptly short . |
| 9 | Donna had managed to disguise the worst of the bruising on her top lip beneath some foundation cream and a little rouge had given at least some artificial colour to her cheeks , but as she pulled down the sun-visor on the driver 's side and peered into the mirror she realized she looked as tired as she felt . |
| 10 | But as she lapped up the five-star treatment on the champagne Concorde flight , angry pensioners were facing a bleak future . |
| 11 | He took his hand away , but as she stumbled down the ladder she could still feel its warm weight . |
| 12 | For a moment she thought Ace was wounded , but as she slid down the slope Ace tilted her head back to watch her approach . |
| 13 | For quickness , there 's nothing to beat shaving your legs and under arms , but as you slice off the hair at skin level , you soon get prickly regrowth . |
| 14 | He had to return to base , but as he flew back the thought crossed his mind that if he could get refuelled quickly enough the opportunity might still remain . |
| 15 | But as he stood there a few seconds more , holding her eyes relentlessly , Maria was assailed by a sense of what her fate would be like if ever she was weak enough to succumb to the dark , dangerous attraction he held for her . |
| 16 | But as it turned out the solution was to prove one of the biggest problems of all , mainly because Taurus aimed to accommodate not just the users in the shape of the institutions and individuals which buy and sell shares , but also those with a vested interest in the existing system — the banks who make considerable money from their roles as registrars and custodians . |