Example sentences of "as [pron] write [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would sit patiently either side of my word processor as I wrote into the small hours , purring appreciatively when I was pleased with myself , and opening their eyes enquiringly when I was not . |
| 2 | As I wrote at the time , though the error may appear small , any error is significant given the close tolerances of FI cars . |
| 3 | Quite honestly , as I wrote at the time , ‘ if my waters could have broken , they would have broken ’ . |
| 4 | As I wrote at the time , I was not surprised . |
| 5 | ‘ Unless you re-tell the story of Felipe de Santis and his blind sister as you write about the Hacienda de Nieve , ’ he pointed out stiffly , his warmth gone at the cold look on her face . |
| 6 | ‘ Sounds very complicated , ’ remarked Juliet , as she wrote on the chart . |
| 7 | As we wrote at the time : |
| 8 | For himself , however , as he wrote on the occasion of his 86th birthday in a poem published as ‘ He never expected much ’ , |
| 9 | Finally , after some ‘ agonizing ’ , he agreed ‘ on the grounds ’ , as he wrote in the introduction to the catalogue , ‘ that I have a passion for Italy , her people , her countryside and the way in which art quite naturally seems to invade every aspect of life , thereby producing an atmosphere that is totally irresistible ’ . |
| 10 | However , as he wrote in the following May , it galled him to be expected to do so and still to be refused admission to the members ' enclosures at smart meetings . |
| 11 | Paul 's mood as he writes to the Romans is a very excited one . |
| 12 | This , as he writes about the brevity of human life , he is moved to exclaim , ‘ So I have seen a rose newly sprung from the clefts of its hood , and at first it was fair as the morning and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb 's fleece ’ , and he continues to describe its life until ‘ it bowed the head and broke its stalk and at night having lost some of its leaves , and all its beauty , it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces ’ . |
| 13 | Under the Net ( 1954 ) , her first published fiction , is technically speaking a memoir-novel like Crusoe or Moll Flanders , being composed as autobiography in the first person ; and The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , like Crusoe , is in part a diary where the narrator — male , as usual — is himself so unaware as he writes of the astonishing end there will be to kidnapping his lost love that the reader is as surprised as he when it finally unfolds : an audacious exploitation of the fictional memoir never attempted by Defoe himself . |
| 14 | Not until after the middle of the seventeenth century do we once more find a government clerk making use of verse as an outlet after he has become psychotic , and then , as he writes from the asylum , he has nothing to lose by revealing himself . |