Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said on Second Reading , there is an explosion of opportunity for our young people . |
| 2 | ‘ As soon as I came on board . |
| 3 | Thank God I had the sense not to bring the painter in with me : I simply dropped the anchor as I scrambled on board , so that she was safely held at anchor . |
| 4 | Maybe , as I suggested on page 182 , our cells have come far across this evolutionary spectrum : we are all relics of ancient parasitic mergers . |
| 5 | Or perhaps , as I speculated on page 182 , all ‘ own ’ chromosomal genes should be regarded as mutually parasitic on one another . |
| 6 | I 'm not eating half as much as I did on camp and I 'm starving . ’ |
| 7 | On a dry but extremely windy day I never once felt cold as I sat on top of Red Screes for half an hour munching through my packed lunch . |
| 8 | I felt I needed all mine as I stood on guard outside the Grand . |
| 9 | For now , continue to hold the camcorder steadily except to follow the subject as you did on Day One . |
| 10 | He shot her an enigmatic glance as she stepped on board the powerful speed-launch , scene of the dramatic rescue that first night . |
| 11 | Clare yelled in pain as she fell on scratchy , frosted bracken . |
| 12 | ‘ Are you sure that 's meant for me ? ’ he asked , as she went on tiptoe to measure her knitting against his back . |
| 13 | Mandy had begun to whistle as she worked on Charity 's hair . |
| 14 | One of the coach passengers died just as we arrived on duty . |
| 15 | The middle 30 per cent owned land but did not employ labour , as they relied on family members . |
| 16 | With a full venue in front of them , Catherine Wheel started to produce sparks as soon as they went on stage with a determination to take Leo Fender 's finest to their limits . |
| 17 | This was to the memory of a Cathedral Organist and his bride who were drowned when the motor vessel , Stella , hit the Casquet Rocks near Alderney as they went on honeymoon . |
| 18 | The stench of decomposing material was so great when the pie was cut that people were endangered as they fell on top of each other in their haste to get away . |
| 19 | The wounded were walking wounded mainly , with bandaged heads and arms in slings , a few of them trying to crack jokes as they trudged on board . |
| 20 | Officials were forced to step in to calm the pair as they rowed on board a British Airways flight to a summit in Ottowa , Canada . |
| 21 | One morning I went out into the garden to fetch some clothes from the washing line and walked past Gibeau , who was shooting sparrows with his assault rifle , as they fed on grain he had laid out for them . |
| 22 | Perhaps in time they 'll turn more of their songs into group showcases , as they did on Cash 's Big River , but as the Highwaymen rode into the sunset , they 'd succeeded in that most country of missions : they 'd kept their pride intact , and their boots on . |
| 23 | Unseated jockeys were scurrying around and fighting madly to reunite themselves with their mounts , but even as they clambered on board there was nowhere to go . |
| 24 | But this soon coincided with a clampdown on public expenditure and councils were told they could n't spend as much as they wanted on housing . |
| 25 | A member of staff said that the patients could not be evacuated out of the town as it Continued on Page 5 Continued from Page 1 was cut-off . |
| 26 | The catch was usually gutted as soon as it came on board , and the gulls would go in a flock from boat to boat , cleaning up the discards . |
| 27 | In 1972 the US spent three times as much on family planning programmes in the Third World as it did on health programmes . |
| 28 | as it dripped on parquet marked with muddy tracks — two mackintoshes in distress |
| 29 | As he journeyed on horseback through Palestine and then up the coast of southern Lebanon in the 1830s , he was an adventurer , staying overnight with the governor of Tyre , crossing the snows of the Chouf mountain chain to the gentleness of the Bekaa Valley where he sketched the great temples of the Roman city of Heliopolis . |
| 30 | I wo n't go again through the details of the Fax that failed , the chairman who was uncontactable by phone , the urgent letters posted second-class — and ‘ the statement that never was ’ delivered by the secretary as he disappeared on holiday . |