Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The train for Dover left at Il.00 am so I bought a copy of Soldier magazine and leafed through the photos of happy-looking squaddies as I drank a cup of British Rail coffee , which tasted hot and disgusting . |
| 2 | I look round as I reach a junction in the corridor and he quickly pops back into his office . |
| 3 | I hope so , as long as I get a sleep at night , I do n't care what you 're giving me . |
| 4 | Squeeze them in sure we 'll find somewhere for them to go , vacate , so long as I get a kiss from everybody apart from the boys and |
| 5 | It is cool outside as I throw a log on the gently breathing embers . |
| 6 | There were plenty of Garda around , and there ought to have been plenty more , as I saw a group of wild children steal chocolates from a shop and then run off down the road . |
| 7 | I stroke it gratefully as I raise a counter-objection to Lesser 's counter-proposals . |
| 8 | I parked the jeep under a tree and then , looking at my watch , I decided that as I had a couple of hours to spare I would take a walk across to the other bridge where I had noticed a café on our first day into Normandy . |
| 9 | So I was mentally on my toes as I took a floater into the city and then left it , mingling with all the pedestrians thronging the walkways . |
| 10 | I 'm particularly concerned about the lack of the service on 27th June as I received a letter from Mr J L Gould of Ribble dated 3 June saying the errors in their scheduling had been rectified . |
| 11 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 12 | as far as I know a thrift to be a large mongoose inhabiting the |
| 13 | But , remarkable or not , this is what we say ; there is this language game in which what happens later ( 7–8 , 14 , etc. , cf. 100 ) is the criterion ( 22 ) of my meaning someone , or something : asked whether I wanted Jones to come , I answer almost as I answer a question about my present sensations ( 7 ) and yet I say , ‘ I meant you , not Jones . ’ |
| 14 | He watched in anxious silence as I ran a hand over the repairs he had begun on Masquerade . |
| 15 | I asked as I spooned a gob of whipped cream over my gooseberry pie . |
| 16 | The thought that came into my head as I rounded a comer into the straight : ‘ Why add this to it all ? ’ |
| 17 | We still do not have a proper address for Nanking , but I 'll try to sent it to you soon , as I understand a comrade from Nanking is coming to see us here to make arrangements for our visit there . |
| 18 | Yeah , but as I say a lot of that could be Doctor Spock 's erm |
| 19 | My sights were wide-ranging " I 'd like to work for the Daily Mirror or the Telegraph , " I informed my friends , as I sank a pint in the way I 'd seen the big-boys do at the time of the by-election . |
| 20 | The sharp miniature flakes that covered the rock like fish scales cut into my finger tips and felt as though they would break as soon as I placed a toe on them . |
| 21 | Well as soon as I have a window in my diary which I 'm not |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't complain , ’ he said , ‘ as I have a voice in one of the chambers of parliament . |
| 23 | Equality brings emancipation : according to Marx it will be ‘ possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow , to hunt in the morning , fish in the afternoon , rear cattle in the evening , criticise after dinner , just as I have a mind without ever becoming hunter , fisherman , shepherd or critic ’ . |
| 24 | If you step out of line , as I did a couple of times , trying too hard to find out how much money he earns , then he will pull you back and forget it , but you feel that if you were to commit a serious breach then we would not forgive . |
| 25 | I myself would be proud to donate to a fund of this kind , as I think a lot of people would . |
| 26 | ‘ I fell in love with the story as I think a lot of people do in their teens , ’ he explains . |
| 27 | We were perhaps over optimistic , as I think a lot of other people relying on , er land sales were . |
| 28 | I quoted out loud , light-headed with triumph as I opened a tin of lunch before setting off on the thirty-mile drive to the hospital . |
| 29 | Then I whirled , so quickly that I nearly ricked my neck , as I caught a movement at the edge of my vision . |
| 30 | I was over the moon — although this only lasted for about a year as I paid a visit with some friends to see the 1991 ‘ Sound Off Championships ’ at Wembley . |