Example sentences of "as i [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 2 | Annoyance flickers across his face as I pass along the long trestle tables finding nothing to my satisfaction . |
| 3 | As I strolled down the next fairway and skirted a mass of heather which cut into the fairway on the angle of the dogleg , I wondered how my boss , Jack Mason , would fare in the tournament . |
| 4 | The whole operation was developing like a Grahame Greene novel as I walked up a dark country lane to the waiting car . |
| 5 | But of course , I told myself as I walked along an echoing corridor , it never did hurt nowadays . |
| 6 | Said yeah and then I changed my mind as soon as I got out the fucking door . |
| 7 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
| 8 | I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps . |
| 9 | I blame the fact that a crow chose to hover below me as I scrambled up a tricky bit of path , made more perilous by loose shifting gravel . |
| 10 | I could n't see anything from road level because of the hedgerow but as I started up the second switch of the hill , I noticed an Escort estate car parked on the left opposite the police barrier . |
| 11 | But suddenly , just as I grabbed up the half-eroded head of a carved-stone monkey , I found my finger caught so fast between its gritty teeth that a gasp broke from me . |
| 12 | The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't believe these ropes , ’ said Steve , as I cambered up the free end . |
| 14 | ‘ Who did you say you were looking for ? ’ she asked suspiciously as I pulled up a weatherbeaten bus seat . |
| 15 | I incurred a second funeral director 's bill the same week as I paid off the first . |