Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I left the next shift was settling in for the day , writing up diaries , reading novels and brewing up endless cups of tea . |
| 2 | Fenella must have heard me , as she appeared at her door as I reached the first landing . |
| 3 | We both started to laugh as I had the last few words on the subject . |
| 4 | Yeah well er there as I said the first er compartment after at the door is the water tanks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The ground felt as I imagined a first world war battlefield might feel — all pits and trenches — but dry . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm just trying to get some perspective here , ’ he said as I twisted the last coldness from my beer bottle . |
| 8 | As the buzz or the haze receded , and as I chewed the last tasteless fragment of sandwiched thermoplastic , I steadied myself by counting the melamine tables and counting the chairs and counting the customers and counting the sticky sauce bottles and the dome-shaped salt cellars and the cups , the plates , the cutlery , the ashtrays , anything in sight . |
| 9 | The first one was still exploding through my cortex as I gulped the second and reached for the third . |
| 10 | I know this to my cost as I spent the next few days discovering which Stain Devil cleaning stick was needed to remove most of my portion from Sunil 's white bathroom carpet . |
| 11 | I had dropped my bag as I hit the first man , but that did n't matter . |
| 12 | Ludo catches it on his club , as I caught the first one . |
| 13 | ‘ It is only simple , ’ she apologised as she brought the first course to the table . |
| 14 | This fantasy was so vivid to her that she would even rehearse this line out loud , looking at herself in her mirror as she smoked the last cigarette of the night , after she 'd taken her face off , after all the noise was over and we 'd all gone home . |
| 15 | As she stamped the last one she glanced at her watch . |
| 16 | As she reached the last step Travis appeared through a door to her left . |
| 17 | But as she mounted the first of the steps to the front door she sensed someone close to her . |
| 18 | Helen Alfredsson , winner of the 1990 Weetabix British Women 's Open , was heading the European contingent , being five under par as she mounted the tenth tee . |
| 19 | And as she attended the first parade of the Princess of Wales 's Royal Regiment , she joked : ‘ It has to be said that for a 31-year-old woman to have 2,500 men under her command is quite a feat but I am sure I will rise to the occasion . ’ |
| 20 | And as she attended the first parade of the Princess of Wales 's Royal Regiment , she joked : ‘ It has to be said that for a 31-year-old woman to have 2,500 men under her command is quite a feat but I am sure I will rise to the occasion . ’ |
| 21 | Bernice shivered inside her coat as she ran the last few feet to the stones . |
| 22 | Theodora 's eye reached the top of the spire as she drank the last of the sherry . |
| 23 | She had been packed for a day or so , but had realized as she took a last look round that her fridge was still switched on with a bottle of milk inside . |
| 24 | The way she smiled as she exhaled a first lungful of smoke suggested she fully intended her remark to be ambiguous . |
| 25 | She touched Artemis lightly on the shoulder as she said the last word , and throwing away her lipstick-stained cigarette butt , fell into step beside them . |
| 26 | She could have kicked herself as she added the last bit . |
| 27 | As she finished the last morsel of a perfectly running Brie , she said , sighing : |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , it 's a reply to my fax from Beryl ! ’ she exclaimed as she scanned the first paragraph . |
| 29 | An eerie shiver as she woke the next morning , suddenly in a cold landscape for which she had no bearings . |
| 30 | HER knees felt weak and butterflies flocked into her stomach as she felt the first hot flush of teenage love . |