Example sentences of "and as [pers pn] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were bunched together in the semi-final of the 1976 Olympic 1500m in Montreal and as we went for the same small gap I felt his spike again my shin . |
| 2 | The next morning he came with me to the station , and as we waited for the train , we watched the crowds . |
| 3 | Naturally Terry had hard-line views on all this , and as we changed for the show on that charged night he proclaimed them to the entire cast , as if he were addressing a meeting . |
| 4 | We arranged ourselves in the seats and as we headed for Shellerton in the early dark I told her calmly , incompletely and without terrors , the gist of what had befallen us in Sam 's boatyard . |
| 5 | Oh , yes , you could , you certainly could , and as I said for long periods , parental an and offspring self interest will overlap . |
| 6 | Travis had turned his back , and as he reached for his other pair of jeans she had the perfect view of long tanned , muscular legs , a taut , narrow behind and a torso that widened to an impressive width of shoulder . |
| 7 | And as he prepared for today 's Charity Shield clash , the £2.9million Saunders , 28 , admitted that the question mark over his future is unsettling him . |
| 8 | He dialled out , and as he waited for it to be answered he knew he was using a line more private than anything set up between the Kremlin and the White House . |
| 9 | On his way back with the water , he got lost on detour around a fallen tree , and as he looked for his way through the woods , he heard a voice ask from the underbrush , ‘ Have you anything to drink ? ’ |
| 10 | Memory of Ven Gajdusek 's furious expression of a short while ago returned , and as she waited for her room key she began to grow seriously worried . |
| 11 | She telephoned police and as she waited for them to arrive she noticed the same youths approach a man with two young children and drench one of the children . |
| 12 | Her left elbow was tingling too and as she felt for it with her right hand she found that the sleeve of her blouse had been torn . |
| 13 | Merrill went straight up to her room , relieved to be alone and quiet at last , and as she undressed for bed she thought that she heard the door to Luke 's room open and close again . |
| 14 | Anna reached the door and as she fumbled for the latch , Melody opened it from the other side . |