Example sentences of "[conj] as [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me that as we got out of the car , a boy asked , ‘ Who 's the little nigger ? ’ |
| 2 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 3 | It was so narrow that as they went down it Owen 's shoulders brushed the walls on each side . |
| 4 | Seven or eight thousand figures had taken up position kneeling on prayer carpets , so that as you walked in through the great red-stone gate you were confronted by rank upon rank of white-clad backs topped with brightly coloured turbans or embroidered mosque-caps . |
| 5 | We suspect , Janet , that you started washing from the top and that as you worked down , any drips streaked the dry , dirty wall below , making it harder to clean . |
| 6 | I recall Hamish in one of his writings saying that as he walked along on the way to his next objective he was reading a paperback novel — how more blinkered than that can you get ! ? |
| 7 | And when a man like Niki said that as he climbed out of his car , no one present doubted his courage . |
| 8 | Peter Lunnen , who took the call , said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that as he shouted down the telephone line to Mrs Wilks , he heard her speaking in the distance . |
| 9 | ( She seemed to me to be about eighteen years old , although as we walked along she told me she had five children , all happily married . ) |
| 10 | So by the time an actual ( although as it turned out farcical ) landing took place in North Wales on 25 February , there was little gold in the chest to meet massive withdrawing . |
| 11 | The Saxon peasant worked from dawn until dusk and as one went down the class ladder life was harder . |
| 12 | I knew men old he was a chain smoker , he always used to smoke Woodbines and as one went out he 'd light the other one er ou on it , he would n't use matches , no he 'd , he 'd light one cigarette off the other . |
| 13 | He stood aside , and as they walked back to the office Lucy felt an unexpected wave of gratitude towards Doreen . |
| 14 | Kalchu cut and stripped two stalks of maize for Hārkini and Lāla Bahādur and as they ambled along they chewed them like sugar-cane . |
| 15 | There were cries of applause and as they died down Donald Stewart turned to Cameron and said , ‘ Now , Angus , let us hear from you . ’ |
| 16 | At dawn they were in autumn again , and as they rode on , they came back into winter . |
| 17 | And as they went on , you know , it was gradually working up and so therefore the graph , each man 's productivity you know , was rising . |
| 18 | And as they went out from Bivar they had a crow on their right hand , and when they came to Burgos they had a crow on the left . |
| 19 | It was noon before they had completed the morning 's tasks , and as they came out from the buildings to go across to the house , the snow had ceased to fall . |
| 20 | And as they came along we used to have to hang these checks on the number you see ? |
| 21 | Several more aircraft were set ablaze , and as they drove back on to the road without a shot having been fired against them , Stirling and Mayne were cock-a-hoop . |
| 22 | They finished their drinks and as they got up from the table Fernando plucked a sprig of jasmine from the pergola . |
| 23 | They went outside and as they got back into the Kubelwagen Devlin said , ‘ Crete and the Afrika Korps , I see , and Stalingrad . |
| 24 | He bellowed at the Sikhs to retreat and as they stumbled back under a cross-fire from the other side of the hall , two of them fell dead and another mortally wounded . |
| 25 | In C2 the Trains were 5th in their semi , unfortunately the slower of the 5th times , but they kept the pressure on until the line and as they slowed down Andy leaned forward and patted Steve on the back , an appropriate gesture . |
| 26 | The paramedics turned up within ten minutes and as they turned up I passed out , so they applied the defibrillator to my chest and the next thing I knew from one minute to sitting talking to them I knew I was on the ground and they 'd brought me round . |
| 27 | They would then contract slightly , and as they heated up further , would start to convert helium into heavier elements like carbon or oxygen . |
| 28 | Every tent and attraction seemed to be playing something different , and as they wandered round , stepping over lengths of cable , one burst of song would fade only to be instantly replaced by a snatch of something different . |
| 29 | We had arrived in Uulaa 's system a few moments before , and as we drifted down to planetary speed I 'd contacted Frejji on the comm . |
| 30 | It is a condition to us receiving the special transitional grant , and as we carried out last year , with drafting the agreement , we have a very short period of time in which to put the agreement together . |