Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Com , coming out the back tell me how just as I 'd gone by the door and er |
| 2 | ‘ … well , they got up and left so I thought I 'd clear their glasses as soon as I 'd finished with the man I was serving . |
| 3 | I thereupon asked Howard Samuel whether he would grant to the Labour Party a licence for the extract , as I had discovered from the contract that the quotation rights were vested in the publisher . |
| 4 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 5 | I did not see the trophy presented this time as I had to leave before the last race . |
| 6 | That , as I had seen from the outside , was shrouded in green plastic , and , as all the windows seemed to have been boarded up , there was scarcely any light at all . |
| 7 | But during the weekends I did my best to claim her attention , following her about from room to room as I had done as a small child , and chattering endlessly about life , literature and the events of the previous school-term . |
| 8 | I sought a subject , as I had done in the past , by looking at my TV screen to see what was going on the world . |
| 9 | I admit , you and I did rather live our years together in the shadow of Jean-Claude , as I had lived in the shadow of Montaine . |
| 10 | I found the same classificatory system in use with the same unconscious linguistic divisions being applied as I had learned in the mid-1950s . |
| 11 | In October 1940 my last year at school began ; it was going to be a year of hard work , as I had to prepare for the June examinations . |
| 12 | Boy as I said lived during the days on sugar , yoghurts , instant coffee and toast ; then every evening the man would cook up a big casserole , one big casserole filled with fish and lots of potatoes , tinned sweetcorn , something like that , and they would eat that together in the kitchen every night at seven o'clock , before the man went off to work — he worked nights you see . |
| 13 | Next morning , as I went to take in the milk , Mrs Rankin , our Burnfoot Avenue landlady greeted me . |
| 14 | The problem , as I began to discover over the years , does n't lie with the composer , it lies with the interpreters and what is expected from the interpreters by people who have dubious taste . |
| 15 | As I stooped to reach into the tent , I paused . |
| 16 | And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it . |
| 17 | And now , what had previously been the focus of my attention — the Nant Gwynant Horseshoe from Pont Bethania by the main road at Nant Gwynant — seemed to be lightyears away from my reached as I stayed rooted to the spot , hypnotised by the lights of the pantechnicon backpedalling menacingly towards me . |
| 18 | It was n't the wind that brought tears to my eyes as I turned to walk along the cliff path . |
| 19 | Trench came up to me as I turned to walk down the corridor again . |
| 20 | And if I could put that half a million pounds in context , as I tried to do in an amendment in Council yesterday evening , that is almost exactly the increase in charging for people going to day care facilities . |
| 21 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 22 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 23 | The state-centrist approach leads to empirical enlightenment , as I tried to show in the previous chapter , but at the expense of some theoretical confusion . |
| 24 | Last night Mr Roseberry said : ‘ I was hit as I tried to get into the pub . |
| 25 | As I stood hesitating in the doorway , Miss Kenton appeared at my side and said : ‘ Mr Stevens , I have a little more time than you at the moment . |
| 26 | The bus was cosy and , as I stood dangling from a strap with the other excess passengers , someone asked the driver if Hampstead Road was still closed off to traffic going north . |
| 27 | The cap badge with its St Andrew 's Cross split in two brought a lump to my throat as I stood rooted to the spot . |
| 28 | Her footsteps and the faint noise of her limbs striking one another as she walked sounded like the mechanism of a time bomb . |
| 29 | She had a second helping , as she had done of the casserole . |
| 30 | She tried to hide her feelings by concentrating , as she had done at the Red House , on the children . |