Example sentences of "[noun sg] as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An and the next day of action as I said before is on tropical rainforests erm . |
| 2 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |
| 3 | You can feel the same oppressive sense of place at Culloden , where great numbers of Scots were massacred , and I felt a similar sense of sadness and grief as I walked through Glencoe where the Macdonalds were treacherously murdered by the Campbells . |
| 4 | A girl of about Xanthe 's age bounced up to my side as I walked slowly along in front of the grandstand , and said , ‘ Hi ! |
| 5 | I have learned to please , to gauge and sniff the air before I move off , to swing my head from side to side as I put one foot carefully in front of the other , ears and hair raised to twang on the slightest change in the atmosphere . |
| 6 | Even then I jinked from side to side as I pulled the hood back . |
| 7 | They stood to the side as I entered then the woman showed me to a chair as the man brought two glasses and placed them on the table in front of me , then said very seriously , ‘ This is my wife . |
| 8 | I looked at her card as I did my hair . |
| 9 | I am sharply aware of every move I make , each crack of sound as I put down a cup , each dull ring as I move a spoon , each splash of water , squeak of the tap , thud of my shoe on the floor . |
| 10 | United were on top but it was a scrappy game , full of fouls as both sides tried to gain some sort of control ; one touch football as I say , a lot of misplaced passes and a lot of fouls , although United had a chance in the fifteenth minute when Martin Foyle almost headed home Paul Simpson 's cross from the right at the near post . |
| 11 | My only emotion as I went back into the box was cold rage . |
| 12 | It 's added a certain anticipation as well to the placement job I 've been doing — ‘ Oh come on someone must have something to say ’ was a regular feeling/thought as I looked at the monitor in anticipation . |
| 13 | It was as disgusting a concoction as I have seen and not particularly cheap . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I was jumping up and down in my seat as I heard the end of the race , ’ he said . |
| 16 | He turned to the back seat as I swung under the arch and headed towards the Baños del Inca . |
| 17 | A passing nurse had noticed the blood as I sat at Aunt Louise 's side . |
| 18 | The configuration of lights speed up , broaden , and throw different shadows into the car as I pull up a freeway ramp . |
| 19 | Connors brought me up to date on his opinion of the guys in the car as I rolled the heap round the first intersection . |
| 20 | that that control the purse are part of the dialogue , and I I hope David that you will continue to make your submissions , in opposition as I did . |
| 21 | All kinds of thoughts raced through my mind as I waited for the explosion in our midst . |
| 22 | Such stories come creeping into my mind as I sit on set at Arsenio Hall 's Paramount studio , watching Soul II Soul rehearse . |
| 23 | I ask these questions because of course article five of the treaty of Rome basis a burden on this court , it does n't er create rights in itself , I think everyone agrees with this , but it certainly er imposes a duty on this court erm to apply with er community laws , purposes and principals and I 'm wondering whether erm , that , that is why I 'm looking at the possible consequences of this er the inter relationship between the , for example , the directive and article eighty five , er and bearing in mind as I said to Mr the other day , the consequences erm of er these fees |
| 24 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 25 | I tried to shake it from my mind as I shook the water from my hair , but I knew what that face felt like from the inside . |
| 26 | With this fancy in my mind as I watch them pass , sometimes in that delusive light of Venice those ships seem to blur before me and I see them transmuted into vessels of the past . |
| 27 | Images of animals huddled together for warmth , safety and companionship floated into my mind as I stood at the side of this man , watching him examine firearms . |
| 28 | This broad sketch helped me to explore the crayon 's versatility without using the final painting as a trial piece , it also helped keep the whole composition in mind as I concentrated on a specific detail in the finished painting . |
| 29 | For example , that the images that I now call up in my mind as I look at the front door of my house , this is something quite real , but it 's real in a much more radically different , in a radically different sense , there 's a , somehow a radically difference in the kind of reality which that image enjoys , to the reality that that bottle enjoys . |
| 30 | Nursing my mug of tea in both hands and feeling the warmth of the rum through my body , the thought crossed my mind as I watched the mortar team sitting on the grass in front of me , ‘ What if the Germans discovered where we were , and got our range ? |