Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [pron] walk [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was growing dark as I walked down the pier alone , his jacket draped over my shoulders , and I wondered if I should really look for Wilde at all . |
| 2 | Then I ate the sandwich as I walked back to Wavebreaker . |
| 3 | I relived the murder as I walked back home through the streets . |
| 4 | He beamed with pleasure as she walked in . |
| 5 | She recognised Peter because he was carrying a rolled-up copy of the Standard and because his eyes lit with appreciation as she walked in . |
| 6 | She had watched from the window as they walked down the jetty , anxious as a mother sending her children off on their first day at school . |
| 7 | All they had done was to pick ears of corn as they walked along , rub them in their hands and eat the grain . |
| 8 | She left the interview-room , straining against the grip Luke kept on her waist as they walked out into the courtyard . |
| 9 | Open pastureland succeeded the neglected wood as I walked on , and soon I came to a rough circle of boulders on a mound — Lisheen , the little fort , home of fairies . |
| 10 | ‘ You lied to me , ’ she said , her voice laced with accusation as she walked through to what appeared to be a workshop . |
| 11 | At first , it can be helpful to speak quietly to your pet as you walk along , by way of encouragement . |
| 12 | Sara shivered a little in her thin American suit as she walked down the gangway and got into the bus which was to take her and the other passengers to the arrival building . |
| 13 | The ex-soldier looked at the ticket as he walked over to the bench . |
| 14 | If you want to see how you look to others , ask a friend to film you on video as you walk along . |
| 15 | Hazlitt set out with Coleridge that morning on the road back to Shrewsbury , observing how his companion continually moved from one side of the footpath to the other as they walked along , though only later connecting this odd movement with ‘ any instability of purpose or involuntary change of principle ’ . |
| 16 | Albert said : ‘ They even held her train as she walked in so it did n't get wet . ’ |
| 17 | A series of falls hidden from immediate view follows the gill on the left-hand side and one May morning as I walked up the gill the falls were roaring after the heavy rains of the week before . |
| 18 | The memory of the outcome brought a smile to her face on that Saturday morning as she walked down towards the crouching figure of Aggie . |
| 19 | Piers was in the living-room as they walked in , half naked , the top button of his faded jeans undone . |
| 20 | She stored that memory away , together with the memory of the forest in the foreground as she walked on . |
| 21 | Oh yeah , that was it , yeah , yeah , muttered it under my breath as I walked out , yeah , I 'll have to get in touch with that to say if got that erm |
| 22 | If the cuddly Lord Spencer , for whom the nation held its breath as he walked down the aisle of St Paul 's Cathedral to give away his daughter Diana , will be sorely missed , it is far from clear whether the departure of his widow from Althorp will be seen as a loss . |
| 23 | ‘ That the Exhibition ? ’ joked Tam , pointing towards the futuristic city with his cigarette as he walked up . |
| 24 | Of Time In They sang as they walked along the clause as they walked along tells when they sang . |
| 25 | The youth was approached by another man as he walked along High Row and then beaten to the ground . |
| 26 | They began opening every door as they walked up its length . |
| 27 | Alex and Chris were playing poker as I walked in , and after explaining my predicament one of the Frenchmen handed over an old copy of the local paper which he had brought with him when he had joined . |
| 28 | The whole operation was developing like a Grahame Greene novel as I walked up a dark country lane to the waiting car . |
| 29 | He sang that old sea song as he walked up to the inn door : |
| 30 | If you get a sudden whiff of musk as you walk along a path in the early morning , this is almost certainly fox and not badger , which is rarely powerful enough to hang in the air . |