Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] so and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wept and I hugged my father and I even hugged Diggs , smelling his hard-blue uniform fabric as I did so and almost feeling him melt and believe me . |
| 2 | Slide diagonally forwards as you do so and twist your hips so that your centre-line faces the opponent . |
| 3 | She opened the door , looking away as she did so and listening for a second to the song of a skylark on the wind . |
| 4 | There was an angry moan as she did so and a pain in her chest , which made her wonder whether the moan had not been her own . |
| 5 | He had turned to look at her , slipping off his coat as he did so and tossing it carelessly over the back of one of the armchairs . |
| 6 | ‘ We found a few , ’ he told her , answering her question about the mussels , pulling off his jacket as he did so and draping it carelessly over the back of the chair . |
| 7 | He was stuffing a thick wad of notes into his inside jacket pocket as he did so and I wondered briefly why Stubbly wanted all those French francs ; but then , that was n't any of my business , was it ? |