Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 'll remi remind you of those again as I reach the various Lots .
2 As I reach the open air on the far side of the back cover , having emerged from a cavern called the dungeon of lust , ten thousand voices will greet me with a joyous shout .
3 The club 's planes were usually Tiger Moths in the main , and as I remember the main airport building adjacent to the main road , pre war , were building Swallow side-cars for motorbikes .
4 Bert and Duncan were as uninformed as I regarding the forthcoming events of the programme .
5 I had occasionally seen his photograph as I skimmed the financial sections of the newspapers .
6 My heart began to flutter as I lowered the heavy pyx into my pouch .
7 As I left the peaceful sleeping village , the mist over the marshes was rising , to show me the great unknown world I was entering .
8 The big bonger chimed midnight as I put the finishing touches to our Bible beds ( hers has a closing lid , of course ) .
9 ‘ Do you know , ’ I asked a market trader as I met the fine working people of Motherwell over the weekend , ‘ that this country 's public sector borrowing requirement expressed as a percentage of Gross National Product is running at a completely unacceptable level ? ’
10 As I rounded Ardmair Bay , the sky was bright but as I reached the scattered cottages and crofts of Strath Kanaird , none with an invitation to halt or stop , ominous yellow clouds formed overhead , obviously heralding a storm , and when Stac Polly came into sight , there was a spiralling column like a tornado above it .
11 My lasting impressions of Plas-yn-Rhiw are of the great clumps of Fuchsia magellanica , its soft hazes of scarlet toning so well with the grey wall ; of an old pear tree and forsythia growing through the roof of the ruined dairy ; of the superb Magnolia campbellii mollicomata , planted by the Keatings in 1947 ; and of squeezing between box hedges down narrow grass passageways and ducking under arching pink rhododendrons and car-mine camellias as I followed the curving stone and cobbled paths .
12 Our leader was soon grunting in a semi layback posture , and as I had the appropriate page open , I could not resist reading out loud : ‘ …
13 Even as I wrote the final corrections to the first edition of this text in January 1973 , a splendid , though destructive new tear had Opened across the island of Heimaey , south of Iceland , and new oceanic crust was being formed .
14 She was right , of course ; but as I cycled the short distance home I kept worrying at the problem , juggling the pieces frustratingly in my mind , and making no sense at all .
15 And yet with each succeeding year both my guilt and inferiority somehow diminish as I witness the old country ways vanish .
16 But because I was in like really really tight tights , er like and then a pair of ski pants over the top er , my whole leg was like , you know , sort of soaked in and this bloke was there going , hee , that 's pretty impressive and I was like , I 'm not going to let him know I was crying and like got up and went to the top of the slope and I carried on skiing for about an extra half an hour , but like when I got home , and I just took off , my whole leg started , feet swelling as I took the like , the tight like leggings off .
17 But as I surveyed the grand vista of my 47 ft plot , one fact became clear : in their struggle for power , many of my shrubs were now far too big for their boots .
18 As I passed the palatial ship of Gharr the Gherpotean , I saw that it was shut up tight , with no sign of activity .
19 I have n't been into her bedroom though I saw some chair legs and a pair of shoes as I passed the half-open door .
20 But our affair wo n't end until desire ends , and , as I said the other night , we 've not done with each other yet . ’
21 My inability to unbelieve in him hung on to me by the jaws , as I ascended the corporate ladder .
22 However , as I told the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) , there will be an opportunity in due course for the legislation that enacts the agreement to be considered in detail by the House .
23 As I told the Select Committee — I make no apologies for reminding the hon. Gentleman of it — anything going beyond that would raise huge implications for all kinds of investments .
24 Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I have not yet seen a reply from the chief executive , but my understanding is that the position is exactly as I told the Hon. Gentleman in Committee .
25 Er , the position of the British government is this , that it regrets er the inconvenience and the expense , er it would like to see a very sensible resolution but it knows that there will only be a resolution as I know the honourable gentleman knows by unanimity and it does not expect to see that unanimity in the future though it will work for it .
26 It was only natural that my thoughts should be on the life and work of my friend Robert W. Service as I walked the untidy streets of Whitehorse four decades after the roaring pandemonium of the gold rush days .
27 I giggle a little as I fetch the little dark blue jacket I bought at the same time : it was rather extravagant to buy both but they seemed to belong together .
28 They helped me over the next road , me nearly tripping as I crossed the far kerb .
29 That part had been almost too easy , but I felt naked and exposed as I crossed the deserted space between the Grand and the hotels on the opposite side .
30 The secret is holding it in check , rationing it , saving the best of yourself for the night , and as I scanned the running order in the lull before the storm , I still could n't decide on a personal favourite .
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