Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I hung on the phone , I ingested the sad evidence of a service which , although well-intentioned , simply had n't coped . |
| 2 | Only the young Swede and the attendant took a sympathetic interest and pointed helpfully as I gathered up the meatballs and deposited them in the ashtray . |
| 3 | As I stepped down the steep treads I heard the too loud click of shoe leather on metal . |
| 4 | And this started a stampede amongst the rest of the herd and as I advanced down the field with them all in close pursuit I somehow managed to clear a four stranded barbed wire fence like an Olympic champion . |
| 5 | There is quite a lot of activity as I come over the hill . |
| 6 | ‘ You may start your apologising as soon as I switch off the machine . |
| 7 | The frown was back between his eyes as I put on the light in my room . |
| 8 | as I put out the fire with … whatever you like ! |
| 9 | He is starting his reply as I put down the receiver . |
| 10 | However , as soon as I drive off the temperature gauge falls to cold and the fuel gauge reads about half what is in the tank . |
| 11 | I asked as I stirred up the tea-bags . |
| 12 | It was dark and the sea was rising rapidly as I came up the firth , keeping the bows in the direction of the flashing lighthouse on the White Hill of Vatster . |
| 13 | It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent . |
| 14 | I had no intention then , or ever after , of joining any group or ‘ movement ’ and I therefore sidestepped the Vorticists just as I sidestepped both the Imagists and the Amygists . |
| 15 | As soon as I know when the dates are fo for the concert . |
| 16 | Declaring that he wishes to offer to the public ‘ the very Journal which Dr Johnson read ’ , he says he will not ‘ expand the text in any considerable degree , though I may occasionally supply a word to complete the sense as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing ’ . |
| 17 | So that is how he did it : as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing — with ‘ wd ’ , and ‘ wl ’ , and ‘ sd ’ , and ‘ J ’ , and ‘ Ld M ’ , and ‘ ystdy ’ , and ‘ Abrdn ’ , and ‘ Mntrse ’ , and ‘ Ednbro ’ , or some such ? |
| 18 | A series of falls hidden from immediate view follows the gill on the left-hand side and one May morning as I walked up the gill the falls were roaring after the heavy rains of the week before . |
| 19 | Rickie was literally dancing in circles around me as I walked down the dock towards his sister , but then he paused in his frenetic progress to light one cigarette from the stump of another , and I wondered just what perverted fate decreed that such a boy should receive a legacy of six million dollars . |
| 20 | It was this image that accompanied me as I walked down the rue de Fleuve , stopping for a final coup d'oeil at the squat church crouching on its gravel ground . |
| 21 | It was growing dark as I walked down the pier alone , his jacket draped over my shoulders , and I wondered if I should really look for Wilde at all . |
| 22 | I could almost hear Werewolf 's eyebrows go up as I counted out the cash . |
| 23 | As I got nearer the Porsche I saw that during the night someone had taken a sharp instrument to the bodywork . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | If anything the sound seemed to become louder as I ran down the deck . |
| 26 | As I weigh together the advantages and disadvantages of either of the present methods of deaf education I have to also take into account the high possibility of failure in the ‘ Natural Aurilism ’ technique and the ‘ unattractiveness ’ of ‘ total communication ’ . |
| 27 | As I walk round the croft I can feel a strange sensation in my stomach , a feeling not unlike fear , and I now know that she is dead . |
| 28 | As I peeled away the layers of the past , their life grew more confounding and the enigma expanded . |
| 29 | The guns a short distance away along the river bank were shelling the German positions as I started up the bagpipes in a fairly secluded thicket , the sound of the drones and the pipe reed easily drowning the noise of the guns . |
| 30 | I tend to paint very quickly , so the paint is always rather damp as I flit round the paper , putting a colour here and one there , and at first it all looks a bit of a jumble . |