Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] at [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earth never quite moved for me in the Dante Sonata as I thought at one stage it might . |
| 2 | ‘ If they 're easy trousers , I can do maybe 30 pairs a day , as long as I start at eight in the morning and finish at eight at night . |
| 3 | As a publish writer yourself I told her I 've been published articles you will understand the need for market targeting and as you mention at twenty thousand words is not full-length , though this could be if was aimed at children . |
| 4 | A colleague from Christian Aid phoned me from Addis Ababa last night and he reported what had happened in the Red Sea port of Assab on Saturday which was when 15 trucks and trailers were loaded each with 22 tons of U N grain and there was a little ceremony as they left at 12 noon for Desai . |
| 5 | There was a long , emotionally charged silence as they stared at one another , before he began to roughly shrug the jacket from his broad shoulders . |
| 6 | There was a pause as they looked at one another and adjusted their minds to the needs of conversation . |
| 7 | There was a silence as they glared at one another across the coffee-table . |
| 8 | The images were still as clear as the rain that had fallen so dispiritedly on the mourners as they stood at one side of the grave while the rector had intoned the fateful words . |
| 9 | The stunt was practised in slow motion , before the cameras rolled and captured Crawford zooming between the lorry 's wheels as it moved at fifteen miles per hour . |
| 10 | ‘ God help the politician who does n't like children , ’ as he remarked at one point . |
| 11 | Ferrari argued that proper procedures had not been followed in Portugal and that Mansell had been unable to hear the instructions on his radio as he travelled at 170 mph past the pits . |
| 12 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 13 | Though EIGHT may read well , he may not spend as much time at reading by himself as he did at seven and he again likes very much to be read to . |