Example sentences of "as i [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not see the trophy presented this time as I had to leave before the last race . |
| 2 | In October 1940 my last year at school began ; it was going to be a year of hard work , as I had to prepare for the June examinations . |
| 3 | Next morning , as I went to take in the milk , Mrs Rankin , our Burnfoot Avenue landlady greeted me . |
| 4 | The problem , as I began to discover over the years , does n't lie with the composer , it lies with the interpreters and what is expected from the interpreters by people who have dubious taste . |
| 5 | As I stooped to reach into the tent , I paused . |
| 6 | And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it . |
| 7 | It was n't the wind that brought tears to my eyes as I turned to walk along the cliff path . |
| 8 | Trench came up to me as I turned to walk down the corridor again . |
| 9 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 10 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 11 | The state-centrist approach leads to empirical enlightenment , as I tried to show in the previous chapter , but at the expense of some theoretical confusion . |
| 12 | Last night Mr Roseberry said : ‘ I was hit as I tried to get into the pub . |