Example sentences of "as i be [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does this mean that as I am going up in the lift , I see it expanding ? ’ |
| 2 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 3 | ‘ I needed this piece and as I was looking around I saw exactly what I needed on this motor bike so I took it and now these guys want to kill me . ’ |
| 4 | As I was looking in , I could see the Queen , surrounded by her lords and ladies . |
| 5 | Shifty-Eyes could n't do much about it as I was hanging on to his foot . |
| 6 | ‘ One day I asked her a question as I was getting on , and she just smacked my face … |
| 7 | Correctly surmising that theirs was the room with the broken bolt hanging from the door , he entered it just as I was catching up with him . |
| 8 | One girl shouted out to me as I was bundled out that she had lost her camera and money . |
| 9 | … as I was goin' over , te' Cork and Kerry mountains … |
| 10 | I did not wipe the offending word off the blackboard , but as I was packing up my books and papers at the end of the class , a girl got up and without a word erased it , to a scattering of applause . |
| 11 | As I was swept along by the noisy laughing crowd out into the tropical evening I persistently wanted to know what had happened to the dog . |
| 12 | So if you were going at sixty four , you know , about a millimetre before the sign you have to be going at fifty five a millimetre after the sign er and you can be pulled up by a State Trooper as I was pulled up , quite unjustly I felt . |
| 13 | As I was going up to my cell it all hit me — am I ever going to get my daughter back ? |
| 14 | And he said , today he phoned me just as I was going out and I did n't really sort of stop and talk to him very long . |
| 15 | Unlike Michelle in Eastenders , my situation was quite different as I was going out with the father of my son . |
| 16 | And it was Alice , right , and as I was going out to the door , she said to Alice , Alice must have said to her , are we going tonight ? |
| 17 | Well , not to so long , er , I was going to Hampshire 's to get bread , and as I was going in , and this fellow was coming out , he hands with me . |
| 18 | ‘ As I was going off at half-time , the lad who tackled me came up and said ‘ I 'm sorry , but it was only a little tap ’ . ’ |
| 19 | I went out to the powder-room and as I was going back into the restaurant somebody tapped me on the shoulder . |
| 20 | It was just as I was sitting down in the living room with my cup of coffee that I realised I 'd left my bag on the train . |
| 21 | Just as I was put through to you I had the idea of reaching out to take one of these pencils and to tear off one of the canvass-returns as a notepad . |
| 22 | As I was walking up to his house two young bearded men in jeans and sweaters got out of a car and ran towards me . |
| 23 | As I was walking over to the piano I was thinking , ‘ Should I really be doing this ? ’ |
| 24 | But as I was walking around I noticed how her eyes followed the dog with great interest . |
| 25 | I can not think what came over me as I was brought up chapel like you but unfortunately my father was a miner and not a grocer . |
| 26 | As I was brought up on a farm I 'm used to working with my hands and in all weathers . |
| 27 | And now , just as I was giving up all hope … |
| 28 | It was expensive , but as I was giving up my holiday I saw no reason why the department should n't pay . |
| 29 | As I was floundering around trying to see a picture she mentioned that she was dreading a forthcoming holiday because of travel-sickness — the anticipatory fear would lead to headaches and frequent urination . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , I remember now , ’ she said : ‘ I did have one dream , just as I was waking up . |