Example sentences of "as i [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | As I looked at the faces marching past with a smart eyes right , I could n't help thinking of those who would have liked to have been on this parade ; those still manning the trenches , and all those buried in a shallow grave in the orchards around the village . |
2 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
3 | My blood froze as I looked at the prices . |
4 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
5 | ‘ As I looked at the magnificent vehicle I could not help thinking of the historical ‘ Experiment ’ of the Stockton and Darlington Railway , or of the Exhibition excursions of 1851 , when the GW nailed rough boards across their permanent way trucks at Didcot to accommodate their third class passengers ! |
6 | It was warm inside the building as I looked at the uniforms from Algeria , Morocco and Tonkin . |
7 | I turned round , half-expecting to hear a giggle , a rather inane giggle ; and then as I looked at the thick shadowy scrub near the gate , and remembered the grim reference to Prospero , a more sinister explanation came to me . |
8 | Paul was trying to catch fish in a pool as I looked at the thing . |
9 | It 's added a certain anticipation as well to the placement job I 've been doing — ‘ Oh come on someone must have something to say ’ was a regular feeling/thought as I looked at the monitor in anticipation . |
10 | Something clicked as I looked at the number . |
11 | As I announced at the end of the trial , I am immediately doing two things . |
12 | As I waited at the King 's Stairs for my boat back to Venturous I was approached by two very splendidly attired and heavily braided Merchant Service Officers whom I had noticed staring at me curiously during the reception . |
13 | As I stared at the German with the white flag , I remembered ( as no doubt the five Frenchmen lying beside me also remembered ) a short time ago in Amfreville a small party of Germans had surrendered and , as the Commando patrol approached , one of the Germans had lobbed a grenade , killing and wounding several members of the patrol . |
14 | As I stared at the display , the reflections of myself and Mr Broadhurst in the plate-glass window came into focus as well , imposed over the vista . |
15 | I read , just as I had at the Moroneys , yet with the single difference in this case there was a young man , Aoin O'Heiher , a nephew of Liam O'Flaherty and he introduced me to writers like Eliot and Joyce . |
16 | It is , as I noted at the time , a peculiar fact that most laymen who have had responsibility for the health service have interested themselves personally to a preponderant extent in the case of the mentally afflicted , both the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped . |
17 | In this respect , however , the distinctions that are made resemble many others in political science which , as I noted at the beginning of this chapter , frequently emerge out of the dominant political concerns of the age . |
18 | As I wrote at the time , though the error may appear small , any error is significant given the close tolerances of FI cars . |
19 | Quite honestly , as I wrote at the time , ‘ if my waters could have broken , they would have broken ’ . |
20 | As I wrote at the time , I was not surprised . |
21 | As I said at the beginning , copyright is rather a dull subject . |
22 | As I said at the beginning , Confucius , that grand old Chinese philosopher , had it right : treat others in the way that you would like them to treat you and everyone ends up much happier . |
23 | As I said at the beginning , there is no one true way to play Warhammer . |
24 | It could not come fast enough , though when we did arrive , as I said at the start , we were suddenly reluctant to go in : victims of a misplaced scepticism about the generosity of fellow climbers . |
25 | An interim care order gives more flexibility to the plaintiffs as well as the other advantages of a care order and although , as I said at the outset , one rarely interferes with an interim order , in the present case I am less disinclined to interfere because of the initial invalidity of part of the order made by the justices . |
26 | The aim of the course is to provide advice and information but as I said at the beginning to get you talking about it . |
27 | Nor is it yet the whole truth ; presenting the experiments in the way I have chosen , as I said at the beginning of this chapter , has been a logical way to tell a story , even if a story not yet adequately grounded in theory . |
28 | As I said at the top of the article , making movies — in AWI 's parlance — is so similar to making a cartoon using traditional methods that it could well be used as a training ground for animators in the traditional industry , but with a much shorter wait before the results can be seen . |
29 | As I said at the beginning of this essay , the only way in which I can fulfil my interest is to work : — and so I do . |
30 | So I would simply suggest that , erm , on the two motions , er President , as I said at the outset , that we would support three nine seven , and in view of the fact that three nine eight is not withdrawn , the C E C would ask you to oppose three nine eight . |