Example sentences of "as [pers pn] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't leave me all through the following night as I worked on the glass . |
| 2 | He was moody all the time , with a flashing temper , and when Changez was at home , nursing his bad arm , Anwar came to me as I worked in the store-room . |
| 3 | ‘ As I work with the prints all day I would get so bored if I wore them as well , ’ she once told an American interviewer , who expressed surprise to find her in such plain clothes . |
| 4 | As you work on the exercises in this chapter , I want you to hold the lemon up steadily , as a guiding polestar . |
| 5 | As you work on the pronunciation of the vowels and consonants in the new language you will of course need to concentrate on those that are unfamiliar and difficult . |
| 6 | You will get perfectly acceptable results from a WYSIWYG package so long as you work within the constraints the software imposes but this now becomes a design problem rather than a technological one . |
| 7 | ‘ How is Christine , these days ? ’ she said as she worked along the racks , pulling out the second set of changes for the show that was just about to start . |
| 8 | Unconcerned , Sabina went on , as she worked at the stove , |
| 9 | But as she worked on the film , Woody 's 12-year love affair with Mia Farrow broke up — and he changed Lysette 's character from an amusing bimbo into a sometimes vicious bitch . |
| 10 | It had once been Chris Patten 's task to help Mrs Thatcher as she worked through the night . |
| 11 | She remembered when she was the only child at home , playing with her dolls on the rag rug before the fire and listening to the purring of the kettle on the hob , her mother singing as she worked in the back kitchen , waiting for the others to come home . |
| 12 | We were only allowed off the site to go to work , and this is where we shift girls scored as we worked round the clock and had to leave the camp after dark when all the day workers had to stay indoors . |
| 13 | That evening as they worked on the catapult , Endill told Mould about what Mr Fractor had said to him . |
| 14 | He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s . |
| 15 | River rescue : Workman Anthony Robson , 33 , from Cleveland , was rescued from the River Tyne by marine police after falling from scaffolding as he worked on the Scotswood Bridge in Newcastle yesterday . |
| 16 | Richard says he has a tremendous sense of history as he works in the woods . |