Example sentences of "as i [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's too bad , just as I 'd plucked up … . ’ |
| 2 | As soon as I 'd woken up , I started to get strange pains in my stomach . |
| 3 | Looking the picture of misery and helplessness , he snatched a few words with me as I waited to go in . |
| 4 | White thistle heads floated up my nose as I struggled to keep up with Duncan , his suspension forks making light work of the ruts and bumps on the ground . |
| 5 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 6 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 7 | As I had to go back to my office after a big luncheon party , I arrived half way through the collection . |
| 8 | This year I could only stay a very short time , as I had to get out to Cliveden for a charity ball the same evening . |
| 9 | Fixing me with a beady eye as soon as I had sat down , she leaned over to damn me with faint praise . |
| 10 | I mean er you know , I I was went in as a mechanical fitter and er stayed as such , getting sort of bigger and more responsibl bilities as I went Grew up . |
| 11 | It did n't bear thinking of , but I thought of nothing else as I prepared to go down to breakfast . |
| 12 | And , as I stooped to get back under cover , I recalled that there would , even from the sanest , be a concession to superstition that would be gone by the morning , a belief that the beginning of the year foreshadowed the character of the rest . |
| 13 | I got myself invited along as I wanted to find out what drove him to travel all the way from Surrey to South Wales nearly every weekend . |
| 14 | As I started to cool down , I did n't regret what I had said . |
| 15 | so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still . |
| 16 | As I turned to go back , the wheelbarrow was far away , perhaps half a mile , the black and yellow stripes just discernible . |
| 17 | As I sat looking up at this magnificent bird , especially on a fine day , I used to feel a terrific urge to see a bird of prey flying to a lure , which I 'd read about in my falconry books . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , I own nothing , as I tried to point out long ago , but there you go . |
| 19 | Playing with the selectors challenged my mathematics as I tried to work out the exact number of available tones , but let's just say there should be something here for virtually every style of player . |
| 20 | I have never been competent in an emergency , and time was lost as I tried to figure out whether to dial 999 , or 9 for an outside line then 999 . |
| 21 | Per , at No. 20 with How Do You Do , reveals : ‘ I bumped into a chambermaid as I tried to get back in . |