Example sentences of "as he [verb] [to-vb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same I felt a twinge of unease as he came to greet me in the bar of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg , an admiral now and much older , hobbling a little and holding a stick . |
| 2 | I can still see his grinning face as he tried to chase me . |
| 3 | ‘ Every time , I just see his grinning face as he tried to chase me , ’ she said . |
| 4 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 5 | Well being as he tried to squash me twice behind the back door . |
| 6 | As he tried to grab me , I feinted , slipped back to make him follow me , knowing he would think I was afraid , and then I let him have a classic straight left that hit him on the point of the jaw . |
| 7 | At the next station , I told him I was leaving and , as he rose to follow me , I mentioned that my father was meeting me . |