Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're too proud , ’ I scolded him as I brushed his black hair . |
| 2 | The organist and I finished more or less together and I turned to him for reassurance as I announced my next song : ‘ And now , ‘ ’ Summer Time' ’ . ' |
| 3 | I remember it as I saw it one evening , lit by the setting sun against a background of threatening clouds . |
| 4 | That weekend is also memorable for something Dana said to me in the train on the way back to Salamanca : ‘ I knew you were gay as soon as I saw you that morning in the galleria . ’ |
| 5 | And some silly woman crashed her tray to the floor just as I made my second entrance — disgraceful ! ’ |
| 6 | As I told my hon. Friend the Member for Batley and Spen ( Mrs. Peacock ) , we do not need to raise taxes ; the Labour party does . |
| 7 | Aye , and er you see I used to go over , I used to go over on a Sunday , when they came , if you , on the er well you see as I told you this chap here . |
| 8 | ‘ As I told you last night , she made all the arrangements herself . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ As I told you last night , this is the only time I 've ever been to Venice . ’ |
| 10 | I washed quickly in freezing cold , icy water , Breakfast was skilly as usually , and I was still starving as I began my three mile trek to the work site . |
| 11 | As I pondered my professional future with the company in the late Sixties , the self doubts did n't go away easily . |
| 12 | ‘ I always found it very funny when I was referred to as Mr Laura Ashley , especially as I hated my own name , Bernard . ’ |
| 13 | My hand groped for the light in terror as I wondered what this object could be . |
| 14 | As I promised you last week , this is going to be a second look at that very British of institutions , the Magistrates ' Court . |
| 15 | What I felt I was doing , as I dressed my shivering body in layer upon layer , was protecting myself . |
| 16 | As I entered my fourth lustre , it became evident that I was not going to fulfil my early promise . |
| 17 | ‘ I do , ’ I said , ‘ in my own ward and when I can special a patient right through , as I did my classic pneumonia girl in Hope a few weeks ago . |
| 18 | As long as I maintained my own security . |
| 19 | As I wheeled my tenth-hand push-bike through the gates of the Parsons ' large detached house and made my way across the gravel forecourt past the guests ' Volvos and Audis , I began to feel uncomfortably out of my depth . |
| 20 | His smile , as I recounted my terrifying encounter — I am an arachnophobe — implied that there were worse things in life than having a spider wandering over one 's hair . |
| 21 | I was rewarded by several admiring looks as I paid my sizeable bill and blundered out , sweating , into the fog . |
| 22 | ‘ As you said yourself last night , people often do silly things . |
| 23 | So a television picture changed at the same time as you saw your ex-lover walking down the road opposite . |
| 24 | I mean today , you 've got to be an educated man to know how to even , they 've got er tractors and everything , but in those days you 'd got to set your plough furrow out so as you you could run your plough down your first one , and then as you as you ploughed your first furrow out you 'd got to plough your next one into it . |
| 25 | She nearly lost her balance as she brought her left foot alongside her right , but by bending down and clutching the stone she was able to stay on it . |
| 26 | It almost broke her heart when she saw that darting look of imitation cross his face as she brought him bad news . |
| 27 | He had always believed her to be promiscuous — now he was probably convinced , she thought bitterly , her face flaming as she recalled her total abandon in his arms . |
| 28 | But the more she thought of Silas 's kisses the more infuriated she became , and as she recalled her own response her fury turned to bitter humiliation . |
| 29 | ‘ He likes all women , ’ Kylie giggled as she recalled his masculine effect on her and the other girls in the show . |
| 30 | She deliberately kept her voice casual , one heavy strand of black hair falling across her cheek as she returned his intense scrutiny . |