Example sentences of "[vb infin] up as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 2 | He did n't look up as we crossed the room , his head bent and the pen moving swiftly across pages held in a clipboard . |
| 3 | What made Bella look up as she passed the sitting room door , Cassie was never to learn . |
| 4 | He did not look up as she advanced down the long and beautiful room . |
| 5 | He did n't even look up as she stopped at his elbow , apparently made aware of her presence by some kind of sixth sense . |
| 6 | She did not look up as he struggled to open the door and stepped inside , where he stood perfectly still , hardly daring to breathe for fear of dropping his awkwardly held gift . |
| 7 | I did n't even look up as he went up the ramp into the street , so I 'm still not sure when he passed out of the garden and into the rest of the world . |
| 8 | Even the insects could n't keep up as we shot down Mount Cedric like a beer down the throat of a thirsty All Black rugby player . |
| 9 | Tension can build up as you open doors and walk round corners . |
| 10 | Donna did n't slow up as she roared up the slope . |
| 11 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 12 | Oh , er , I do n't know so much about knowing when and how so much , cos it I mean who 'd thought prices of houses would then go up as they did , you know , and there 's er , I knew er a young women that was buying a house and these people said oh , oh it 's , we 're not just ready to move yet , we 're not , and during this time Daisy said were rocketing up in price and she could n't afford one after |
| 13 | A gasp would go up as she got out of the car , looking very pale and ill . |
| 14 | Both the armies of this pincer movement probably travelled quickly , without extensive commissary , relying on what they could pick up as they laid the land waste . |
| 15 | The jockey reported to a stern-faced Chester Barnes , Pipe 's assistant , that the horse did not pick up as he expected . |
| 16 | Now suspect that this is something that most people fall into on their first few training sessions which is all to be about this er er er have you got any questions and most people I was gon na say good morning , but you got a paragraph down now and it 's all about slowing down and you can speed up as you go through but it 's certainly the opening slowing down . |