Example sentences of "[noun] as [pron] walk [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | With enough computational skill , a contoured ‘ stained-glass ’ window in a church , say , could show a whole sequence of devotional images as someone walked down the aisle towards it . |
| 3 | He left his office , nodded to Bourne as he walked down the hall , and called , ‘ I 'm going out . ’ |
| 4 | She had watched from the window as they walked down the jetty , anxious as a mother sending her children off on their first day at school . |
| 5 | Sara shivered a little in her thin American suit as she walked down the gangway and got into the bus which was to take her and the other passengers to the arrival building . |
| 6 | A series of falls hidden from immediate view follows the gill on the left-hand side and one May morning as I walked up the gill the falls were roaring after the heavy rains of the week before . |
| 7 | If the cuddly Lord Spencer , for whom the nation held its breath as he walked down the aisle of St Paul 's Cathedral to give away his daughter Diana , will be sorely missed , it is far from clear whether the departure of his widow from Althorp will be seen as a loss . |
| 8 | All our suppressed mirth escapes in little bubbles as we walk along the road . |
| 9 | Shivering in their nakedness , and all shorn of their hair , the actors kept on only their stage boots as they walked back the way they had come . |
| 10 | A shot of a police station was used to accompany a voice-over commentary that " some CID men take bribes " ; for two and a half seconds , the officer could be identified in the film as he walked down the station steps . |
| 11 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |