Example sentences of "but as i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody came in , but as I looked round I saw my mother staring past me , her mouth open . |
| 2 | We fell asleep almost immediately but as I dropped off I heard Marius pissing over Macier as a Christmas present . |
| 3 | But as I went on reading I found that was n't what Clem was telling me at all . ’ |
| 4 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 5 | But as I whirled round I saw that she had already taken off most of her clothes . |
| 6 | The half-hour is up , but as I turn off my tape recorder , Lord Archer shows no signs of wanting to finish . |
| 7 | ‘ Once I hit the 2O mile mark I started to feel stronger and my speed picked up slightly , but as I ran up the Mall towards Buckingham Palace I discovered a new meaning to the word pain . |
| 8 | But as I rode out with the nation 's most prestigious hunt , I found its members the model of politeness . |
| 9 | I began ‘ Great Expectations ’ with a very negative view towards it but as I read on I began to really enjoy it . |
| 10 | But as I read on about the growing disharmony between Mrs. Proudie and Mr. Slope , Trollope rose in my estimation and count him among my favourite authors . |
| 11 | I could n't see anything from road level because of the hedgerow but as I started up the second switch of the hill , I noticed an Escort estate car parked on the left opposite the police barrier . |
| 12 | But as I look back , most of the days were grey , with the surrounding hills withdrawn , inscrutable presences , the silence broken by the plaintive bleating of sheep , or their scuffling and sudden bedraggled appearances out of the mist . |
| 13 | Klondyke Trading Co are responsible for providing a variety of straps for both the home market and the world , but as I found out on a recent visit there 's more to making one guitar strap than meets the eye , let alone producing thousands . |
| 14 | I reached down to pick him up but as I bent down I felt tingling in my feet . |