Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ See you next Saturday , ’ she called out as she handed Jean the night-safe wallet and left . |
| 2 | As we approached Tromsø the snow grew thicker and Nathan asked , as casually as he could manage , whether they would clear the runway . |
| 3 | As we approached Rijeka the weather , like the roads , took a real downward turn . |
| 4 | As we neared Sligachan the moon was shedding her mild beams over Glamaig and the other Bens , and gave great height to their massive forms . |
| 5 | As we neared Arran the clouds became denser , and in turn cast deep shadows over the Firth and the Arran coast , or were lit up with a glow of intensely bright sunlight ; while the glory of Arran , its mountain-peaks , were lost amid the clouds that enshrouded them . |
| 6 | In the Middle Ages , people often depicted their monks as ruminative animals , chewing over the Word of God repeatedly , as it were , rolling the words around in their mouths and absorbing it into themselves just as they received Jesus the Word in the Eucharist , in a symbolic and sacramental manner . |
| 7 | As it left Sarajevo the pilot realised that hostile gunners had ‘ locked-on ’ to the plane . |
| 8 | As soon as he reached Hoogeveen the weather deteriorated , and so did his spirits . |
| 9 | In a Christian society one can not avoid the memory of the cock that crowed to Simon Peter just as he denied Christ the third time . |
| 10 | ‘ She stirred herself at last and wrote , ’ he said as he handed Rose the letter . |
| 11 | As he handed Ben the bowl he almost expected to receive some kind of shock — a violent discharge of the child 's unnatural energy — through the medium of the bowl . |