Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I hung on the phone , I ingested the sad evidence of a service which , although well-intentioned , simply had n't coped . |
| 2 | Only the young Swede and the attendant took a sympathetic interest and pointed helpfully as I gathered up the meatballs and deposited them in the ashtray . |
| 3 | As I stepped down the steep treads I heard the too loud click of shoe leather on metal . |
| 4 | And this started a stampede amongst the rest of the herd and as I advanced down the field with them all in close pursuit I somehow managed to clear a four stranded barbed wire fence like an Olympic champion . |
| 5 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 6 | As I strolled down the next fairway and skirted a mass of heather which cut into the fairway on the angle of the dogleg , I wondered how my boss , Jack Mason , would fare in the tournament . |
| 7 | I asked as I stirred up the tea-bags . |
| 8 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
| 9 | As I said earlier the the pension is based on your total amount of pensionable service and that 's teaching service on which you paid contributions . |
| 10 | As I , as I said earlier the new boy , the rather elderly new boy but I can assure the Professor if I were a hundred years old I 'd still be younger than 'im . |
| 11 | It is very important indeed to ensure that the staff of G C H Q are not subject to potential conflicts of interest and as I said earlier the Prime Minister and I listened for some considerable time to the s to er to the points put forward by the trade unions to see whether or not that overriding er national objective could be maintained but we were not convinced , we were not convinced that erm the trade unions could overcome those potential conflicts of interest and it behoves ill the party opposite to try and put a different gloss on the fact that we in this country thanks to our legislation , have put harmony in place of strife and we are not prepared to allow the opposition to put that major achievement at risk . |
| 12 | It was dark and the sea was rising rapidly as I came up the firth , keeping the bows in the direction of the flashing lighthouse on the White Hill of Vatster . |
| 13 | It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent . |
| 14 | I had no intention then , or ever after , of joining any group or ‘ movement ’ and I therefore sidestepped the Vorticists just as I sidestepped both the Imagists and the Amygists . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Rickie was literally dancing in circles around me as I walked down the dock towards his sister , but then he paused in his frenetic progress to light one cigarette from the stump of another , and I wondered just what perverted fate decreed that such a boy should receive a legacy of six million dollars . |
| 18 | It was this image that accompanied me as I walked down the rue de Fleuve , stopping for a final coup d'oeil at the squat church crouching on its gravel ground . |
| 19 | I could almost hear Werewolf 's eyebrows go up as I counted out the cash . |
| 20 | As I got nearer the Porsche I saw that during the night someone had taken a sharp instrument to the bodywork . |
| 21 | Said yeah and then I changed my mind as soon as I got out the fucking door . |
| 22 | ‘ Once I hit the 2O mile mark I started to feel stronger and my speed picked up slightly , but as I ran up the Mall towards Buckingham Palace I discovered a new meaning to the word pain . |
| 23 | If anything the sound seemed to become louder as I ran down the deck . |
| 24 | As I peeled away the layers of the past , their life grew more confounding and the enigma expanded . |
| 25 | The guns a short distance away along the river bank were shelling the German positions as I started up the bagpipes in a fairly secluded thicket , the sound of the drones and the pipe reed easily drowning the noise of the guns . |
| 26 | I could n't see anything from road level because of the hedgerow but as I started up the second switch of the hill , I noticed an Escort estate car parked on the left opposite the police barrier . |
| 27 | But suddenly , just as I grabbed up the half-eroded head of a carved-stone monkey , I found my finger caught so fast between its gritty teeth that a gasp broke from me . |
| 28 | The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes . |
| 29 | As I dodged down the yard I noticed the broken bottle lying in the drain . |
| 30 | They stood to the side as I entered then the woman showed me to a chair as the man brought two glasses and placed them on the table in front of me , then said very seriously , ‘ This is my wife . |