Example sentences of "[noun sg] as i [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even then I jinked from side to side as I pulled the hood back . |
| 2 | ‘ I was jumping up and down in my seat as I heard the end of the race , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Connors brought me up to date on his opinion of the guys in the car as I rolled the heap round the first intersection . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | I had occasionally seen his photograph as I skimmed the financial sections of the newspapers . |
| 7 | I began to see my environment in a new light as I connected the shapes and patterns I found in it with mathematics . |
| 8 | ‘ You know , ’ Ash was saying , breathing hard and looking down the stair-well as I opened the door . |
| 9 | I clutched my daysack on my lap as I watched the clipboard make its way round . |
| 10 | I looked up at the bedroom window as I closed the door behind me . |
| 11 | The moment passed and I slowed quickly , dropping to a trot as I approached the Bomb Circle , almost staggering into it , then flinging myself on to the sand inside to lie panting , heaving , gasping , staring at the grey sky and invisible drizzle , spread-eagled in the centre of the rocks . |
| 12 | Miss Hinkle watched with disapproval as I snapped the case shut . |
| 13 | I was the soul of philanthropy as I entered the Primrose room . |
| 14 | Springsteen circled my legs and howled a bad-tempered welcome as I opened the purple — yes , purple — envelope . |
| 15 | I almost dropped the flowers when I saw Lisabeth on the phone in the hallway as I kicked the door shut . |
| 16 | I hesitated only for a moment as I approached the shop , then walked straight in . |
| 17 | None has arrived but if his death took place as I saw the angel pass I would not hear from my sister Ellen for some time . |
| 18 | I could hear her giggles fading into the distance as I led the dog back into the house . |
| 19 | I was lucky in meeting a cab as I left the bank , and I went back to my anonymous room in Peel Square . |
| 20 | I began to feel myself being pulled further and further under the water , I screamed and swore but nobody seemed to hear or believe me and then my head went under and all I remember is a feeling of despair as I squeezed the tree trunk only to find that it simply crumbled in my hands . |
| 21 | It was only natural that my thoughts should be on the life and work of my friend Robert W. Service as I walked the untidy streets of Whitehorse four decades after the roaring pandemonium of the gold rush days . |
| 22 | The three Frenchmen have just settled into the trench as I contemplated the hordes of mosquitoes that were now descending on the area . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you know , ’ I asked a market trader as I met the fine working people of Motherwell over the weekend , ‘ that this country 's public sector borrowing requirement expressed as a percentage of Gross National Product is running at a completely unacceptable level ? ’ |
| 24 | All these thoughts and many more were racing through my head as I polished the silver teapot which she would be drinking out of . |
| 25 | Such is the power of suggestion that that night as I neared the top of the staircase , my foot stumbled on the last step but one . |
| 26 | We could feel the tension among the large audience of Spaniards and British and Americans , a tension that relaxed into applause as I blew the last candle out and the room lamps came on . |
| 27 | It was a sunny morning in late autumn and the frost was melting on the stiff blades of grass as I climbed the lane out of Malham and crossed the meadows climbing steeply upwards to Pikedaw Hill . |
| 28 | My breath was like dragon smoke as I filled the kettle . |
| 29 | My heart gave a jump , then resumed something like its normal beat as I registered the fact that even in an empty house there were draughts , and doors moved and creaked with no one to push them . |
| 30 | Troops and supplies were crossing the Benouville bridge as I approached the café . |