Example sentences of "as [pers pn] be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Your colleague Pool is hiding his thoughts from me , just as I am hiding mine from him . |
2 | ‘ But I will stick around only as long as I am doing justice to myself and the team . |
3 | One evening as I was nearing Farr 's entrance , I was running , tripped , with the result that I banged my head on the pavement . |
4 | I began it upon leaving Tintern , after crossing the Wye , and concluded it just as I was entering Bristol in the evening , after a ramble of four or five days , with my sister . |
5 | I heard the cry as I was passing Mrs Ainsworth 's house . |
6 | One Friday , as I was passing Murchie 's door , Duncan appeared . |
7 | ‘ A little girl called Amy from Chester contacted me as I was providing cover for the whole of the North , ’ she says . |
8 | My Treatise on the Novel , with a long essay on Ivy 's novels , appeared just as I was leaving England , and she wrote her gratitude to me in Egypt . |
9 | As I was training Dawn more to display her than to use her to hunt , this comparative lack of interest in food was n't a problem . |
10 | Just as I was thanking Mrs Lewis and getting ready to leave Albert came into the room . |
11 | As I was making notes , measuring , and sketching in my black notebook , the guide was shuffling about behind me , impatient to leave . |
12 | I had only recently begun to walk much without a stick — however — after much midnight practice to a ‘ pop ’ record I did manage even the backward steps without a wobble which I felt was the least I could do as I was representing MEDAU ! . |
13 | In gratitude for what I thought God had given me , a second chance , I ignored Leon 's boredom as I talked him through the files — just as I was ignoring Muriel 's messages to call her — and I ignored his rarely appearing at meetings with agricultural reps and men from the Milk Marketing Board ; ignored his non-involvement with any of the humdrum things essential to the running of a place like Sleet . |
14 | I could not see what was happening as I was falling upsidedown and my legs obscured all view of the aircraft above me . |
15 | On a personal note , this is the last issue of Q magazine which I will edit as I 'm leaving ICI soon . |
16 | I ca n't promise what time I 'll be there , I 'll have to ring you as I 'm leaving work . |
17 | er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house |
18 | McDunn comes in as I 'm chasing bits of quiche around my plate with my fork . |
19 | Basically , I 'll stay happy as long as I 'm taking pictures . ’ |
20 | There 's a light switch near at hand inside that tank and , as you are wearing ear plugs , you find yourself floating in a soundless , dark and warm environment . |
21 | As long as you are using MS-DOS 3.3 the answer is fairly simple . |
22 | As you are using gravel from an already established undergravel filter it will begin to function immediately . |
23 | As you 're using SMARTDrive , you can save 2,5Kb by reducing your BUFFERS statement from 15 to 10 . |
24 | Miranda wants to know as soon as you 're allowed visitors . |
25 | She 's doing , spending as much time doing tea and she sees , as she is phoning prospects . |
26 | As she was seeing things in the wake of her Paris win , she plans to compete for three or four more years before having a second child and giving up the tournament scene . |
27 | A huge local family came in as she was drinking coffee , and suddenly there were voices and laughter as they arranged the stately grandmother at the head of the table , the boisterous children banished to the other end . |
28 | It was , as she was to say time and again , ‘ a true congregation of hearts and minds ’ . |
29 | Her assistant breezed in with some figures she wanted , just as she was taking hold of the Palmer & Pearson file . |
30 | Just as she was taking soup from the tureen and pouring it into her soup-plate the Hulsbys passed her table . |