Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then as I hovered in an agony of uncertainty I noticed that the salivation was diminishing ; she was able to swallow . |
| 2 | As I kneel in a kind of mourning , someone calls . |
| 3 | In 1975 a securicor guard at Harmondsworth told me ( as I wrote in an article in the Guardian ) ‘ Sometimes in this place people are naughty and we have to lock them in . ’ |
| 4 | As I wrote in an article on her : |
| 5 | As I wrote in An English Rural Community : Myddle Under the Tudors and Stuarts ( 1974 ) : |
| 6 | As I said in a previous article , the Dinas Mawddwy Railway has been obliterated in some places much more than other lines I have walked . |
| 7 | But as I said in a speech recently , we have a lot further to go , more progress to make and that is very much at the top of my agenda of , the agenda of my right honourable friend the education minister . |
| 8 | If you take all of the money that has been spent since the policy was established in nineteen eighty eight , it still does not amount to twenty pence per child which as I said in a previous erm question , answer to a previous question , is bare would barely buy a pencil for each child . |
| 9 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 10 | Later on that day I was sent into the Corporals ' quarters with a mop and bucket and as I went in a Corporal came out buttoning his flies . |
| 11 | What it is le let's just sort of get things , as I say in a new build situation if you were having a new house built |
| 12 | As I lie in a ditch during the short rest and watch Jake the Algerian move along the road just ahead of me exclaiming ‘ A la attack ’ , a voice from somewhere along the road shouts , ‘ Oh , piss off ’ . |
| 13 | In the very early stages the white hole appears to expand at a rate several times the speed of light , as I explain in an article written with R. C. Kapoor in Astrophysics and Space Sciences ( vol 53 , p 155 ) . |
| 14 | Again , as I recorded in a fieldnote , this assistant chief exhibited aspects of what I could only then describe as ‘ institutional paranoia ’ , when he went on to deride an unnamed social scientist who had been allowed research facilities inside a police force ( unspecified ) . |
| 15 | As I work in a distribution depot I can not use the vouchers at my ‘ place of work ’ . |
| 16 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 17 | As I mentioned in a previous memo , if the Government decides to endorse the re-establishment of the Welsh Affairs Committee , and it chooses to continue the study , we will want to give evidence . |
| 18 | People living alone are particularly at risk if they smoke because , as I mentioned in an earlier chapter , it is a considerable fire hazard in the home . |
| 19 | It is helpful to bear in mind these recurrent instruction words ( " discuss " , " assess " , etc. ) as you contemplate in an examination a list of questions that you have to choose between . |
| 20 | You can say as much as you like in a letter and it will not cost you any more than the price of a stamp . |
| 21 | ‘ You see you have to have a situation in schools where in the end teachers — and this gentleman is a visiting teacher — can give reasonable orders to people just as you do in a home . |
| 22 | It is intriguing to speculate , as you stand in a swamp listening to this astounding and deafening chorus , that , although much must have changed in the millions of years since the first amphibians appeared , it was , nonetheless , an amphibian voice that first sounded over the land which , until then , had heard nothing but the chirps and whirrs of insects . |
| 23 | So , as you say in a lot of your articles , it 's social-sciences , teachers , users , actual utility users that love the work , whereas the photographic intelligentsia or the ‘ counter-culturalists ’ have found it , in a perverse way , too usable and too located . |
| 24 | You will need to restring your racket as many times in a year as you play in a week . |
| 25 | Just how much larger seemed to occur to Fergie as she lazed in a sun lounger by her French swimming pool . |
| 26 | Her eyes closed , and her head fell back , as she waited in a kind of sensual anguish … |
| 27 | They both then sprinted off and were out of sight before the group of concerned shoppers could reach her as she lay in a faint on the bottom step below the church . |
| 28 | We were invited to Stuart Johnston 's retirement party in the English Department ( Stuart met us off the ship when we first arrived in NZ , in 1969 ) ; but Val did n't make the party as she tripped in a gutter and pulled her ankle ( she got free treatment for it from the doctor , thanks to NZ 's Accident Compensation scheme ! ) . |
| 29 | I watch , mesmerized , as she falls in a liquid movement to the ground . |
| 30 | MOVIE beauty Bo Derek cuddles a baby chimp as she stars in a real-life rescue act . |