Example sentences of "[vb past] as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh ’ and ‘ ouch ’ I howled as I hit the alleyway . |
| 2 | Strange the tricks that life plays , I mused as I drove home , popping the tape of madrigals into the player . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , boy , ’ he mused as I hefted the heavy thing , ‘ these coins are excessively rare . |
| 4 | ’ Do n't take the girls ' minds off their tidying up , ’ I joked as I left . |
| 5 | She never moved as I nipped hard and winkled out the offending obstruction . |
| 6 | She stopped as I held up a finger . |
| 7 | I think we found as I say there are work demanding which is probably the nineteen nineties are an increasingly well educated , skilled and flexible workforce responsible for it 's services policy and safety environment , the strategy in programmes for those page twenty one . |
| 8 | My heart sank as I looked around . |
| 9 | My heart sank as I looked at it . |
| 10 | I trembled as I felt his power over me already . |
| 11 | My voice trembled as I answered . |
| 12 | He staggered as I clambered on , but stayed upright . |
| 13 | He played as I suppose Bach himself would have played — I think at a rather slower tempo than most modern pianists and harpsichordists , though with no loss of rhythm or shape . |
| 14 | I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station . |
| 15 | I closed my eyes and watched the sheets of warm colour that came as I relaxed or increased the tension of the lids . |
| 16 | The rain came as I reached the drive of the hotel , set amongst trees , and I ventured along it in search of shelter . |
| 17 | ‘ Thought you 'd backed out , ’ he muttered as I took off my damp coat . |
| 18 | I muttered as I trailed across the green . |
| 19 | ‘ So I noticed as I came through . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Well ’ — he turned and looked towards the window — ‘ I noticed as I passed that you had a box of Havana cigars , the … the Excepcionales . |
| 21 | ‘ Hi , Robin , ’ I murmured as I passed . |
| 22 | I fought it open and my feet crunched as I went through . |
| 23 | I could n't do anything about Nassim 's cousin being in Pakistan , I reasoned as I rinsed my mouth for the hundredth time . |
| 24 | After eighteen months it happened as I had foretold . |
| 25 | and I , I told him I was n't stupid enough to keep money in the house as an ex er as an ex lawyer and erm , where , er it so happened as I say that I talked to he , he did n't take any thing in fact at the end he apologise for having chosen the wrong house and he |
| 26 | My right hand shook as I remembered the sudden fear of seeing the crimson tracer flick up from the ground . |
| 27 | I sighed as I took an apple from the bowl on the window sill . |
| 28 | ‘ Pounds , ’ I replied as I wrote out my name and address on the back of the particulars and left it on the counter . |
| 29 | ‘ You never know , Sid , ’ I replied as I swatted a mosquito that had landed on my wrist , and watched the blood splatter from it . |
| 30 | ‘ Nothing , ’ I replied as I scrambled out of the trench , replacing the diary quickly in my hip pocket . |