Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as I looked at Jimmy Boyce , ex-industrial tiler , ex-foundry worker , ex-redundant foundry worker , I realised that it really was the law of the jungle here tonight . |
| 2 | Johnston said : ‘ It has not gone anywhere near as well as I expected at Everton . |
| 3 | If the development of civil society means in later capitalism , say from the end of the nineteenth century , the flourishing of an independent cultural and aesthetic sphere , then this might , as I argued at length above , be disruptive to the ideal interests , indeed to the very identity , of the bourgeoisie . |
| 4 | ‘ As I said at Nottingham , faint glimmerings — all shadow and no substance . |
| 5 | There are a number of ways to get a game abandoned , although streaking across the pitch in only your underpants , as I did at Lake Town last season , is perhaps not the best . |
| 6 | The first Arctic fox I had ever seen watched me as I arrived at Gullfoss late at night , then turned and headed off with its huge tail laid out behind it . |
| 7 | The following morning , as I arrived at work , the watchman was waiting for me . |
| 8 | A passing nurse had noticed the blood as I sat at Aunt Louise 's side . |
| 9 | do not harden your heart as you did at Meribah … |
| 10 | She had n't missed the way Ace 's hands shook , and the slight guilty lowering of her head as she glanced at Petion . |
| 11 | When he asked if he should fly out her answer had been a firm and uncompromising ‘ No ! ’ but now , as she glanced at Alain , she was not too sure if she had been wise . |
| 12 | Her tone altered as she glanced at Derek . |
| 13 | Tall , pretty , vivacious , with an eager and obvious appetite for every kind of experience , she fell in and out of love , as she had at school and college . |
| 14 | Connon put his arm over his daughter 's shoulder as she shivered at Dalziel 's imagery . |
| 15 | Her voice trembled and her whole body stiffened as she stared at Robert incredulously . |
| 16 | Yesterday as she landed at Heathrow she looked glad to be back . |
| 17 | Julie Ride , of Walthamstow , London , said as she landed at Heathrow airport after a five-day visit to the Iraqi capital : ‘ The Government has got to get its act together now and get Paul and Michael out . ’ |
| 18 | Also , a young Norwegian secret agent named Bernhard Bergersen had while travelling past in a train on the opposite side of the fjord , risked his life by taking a photograph of the Tirpitz as she lay at anchor . |
| 19 | I could hear only the little lap of water slipping past Joanna 's planks as she lay at anchor . |
| 20 | Something began to well up in Fabia then as she looked at Ven , and her breath caught . |
| 21 | Maggie found herself being inspected closely by two pairs of eyes and Candace Rainford 's green eyes hardened as she looked at Maggie 's face and the shining mahogany-red of her hair . |
| 22 | Alice 's heart seemed to be thumping in time with the train wheels as she looked at Harry 's glowing face opposite her . |
| 23 | Her mouth writhed , her features crumpling as she looked at Lissa . |
| 24 | Agnes actually put her hands over her ears as she looked at Jessie sitting close to her on the edge of the bed . |
| 25 | She held out her hand , palm upwards now , and moved her head slowly as she looked at Aggie as if she were talking to a friend who would understand that a cousin of hers had not married beneath her . |
| 26 | Sarah let Roy carry Benny into the house , and as she looked at Janine comforting her only daughter , the ice in her heart melted . |
| 27 | But Jenny was not in Sara 's mind as she looked at Matthew now . |
| 28 | As she looked at Millie rocking herself slightly like a little old woman getting a child to sleep , she though , If I were to tell her her mother has died , she would likely think it was the same way as her father had , whichever way that was , which was n't real dead . |
| 29 | Her chin rose as she looked at Nicolo . |
| 30 | Anne felt her eyes fill with tears as she looked at Helen and Tony kneeling at the altar during their Nuptial Mass : Helen so tiny and ethereal and Tony proud and protective beside her , looking at each other with love . |