Example sentences of "as [pers pn] see the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I saw the circle moving in on Alfred , I realised that that voice had been his . |
| 2 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 3 | None has arrived but if his death took place as I saw the angel pass I would not hear from my sister Ellen for some time . |
| 4 | Later I turned and walloped back towards Berlin , by way of Magdeburg , with just the one tweak of the Tardis en route as I saw the signs for Potsdam . |
| 5 | ‘ There ! ’ he said abruptly and threw the plane straight again , but this time dropping the nose , and I saw a jeep churning dust from the dirt road which ran the length of the island 's long shank , between the golf course and the houses , and just as I saw the jeep so the red tracer bullets began climbing from a machine-gun mounted in the back of the vehicle . |
| 6 | As soon as I saw the file , I knew it was the one I had stolen from Joe , and I knew that this man knew my convict . |
| 7 | I protested , waving my arms and running after her as I saw the possibility of getting into Ashley 's increasingly attractive body slipping away from me . |
| 8 | The mischief in my veins cooled as I saw the fear in his eyes . |
| 9 | That went gradually , as I saw the cancer beating him , saw his skin stretched over his bones , saw the pallor creep over him . |
| 10 | But now My heart is breaking as I see the crumbling mess , |
| 11 | Despair overtakes me as soon as I see the dreaded trolleys jammed together ; I always manage to pick one with a crab-like action ; my heart sinks and culinary amnesia sets in somewhere between the tinned fruit and dried pasta . |
| 12 | As you saw the man first , I think you would be interested to interview him now , and see if his attitude to himself has altered . ’ |
| 13 | As you see the rhythm and natural pauses , also notice the slightly different shapes of the five long vowels ( in italics ) . |
| 14 | They then reared some animals with one eye closed throughout the sensitive period , and as you see the result was dramatic — the closed eye lost control of almost all the neurons it would normally have activated . |
| 15 | Describe what happens , but also how you and other members of the group feel about arriving , and how you feel as you see the ship that brought you gradually disappearing again . |
| 16 | But as soon as she saw the tooth , she lost interest . |
| 17 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 18 | Her feet seemed to be rooted to the spot as she saw the pram with baby Donald in it disappear over the bank — too far away for her to stop it . |
| 19 | ‘ Good God , ’ she breathed as she saw the state of him . |
| 20 | She turned to the window , and her heart leapt as she saw the grey line of the sea . |
| 21 | But it was the unexpected shots that would provide the spice to the story — like the ones she had just made of the little midinette enthusing as she saw the dress she 'd sweated blood for , if not created , come down the catwalk to the roar of applause . |
| 22 | She heard the front gate squeak open , and as she saw the two young Garda officers look up at the window and come slowly up her path , Kit Hegarty suddenly knew without any doubt what they were coming to tell her . |
| 23 | Chrissie looked into the playroom , and smiled as she saw the activity at the table-football . |
| 24 | ‘ She told me she had made it up on the spot as soon as she saw the bloke . ’ |
| 25 | Sharon , 30 , screamed hysterically , ‘ My baby , my baby ’ , as she saw the girls flung into the air . |
| 26 | Then her eyes stretched wide as she saw the doctor take a syringe out of his bag . |
| 27 | Her eyes glittered as she saw the bottle . |
| 28 | Annie laughed aloud as she saw the look on Billy 's face . |
| 29 | Ellie saw the mockery in her father 's eyes , as she saw the hate . |
| 30 | She hit her and at the same time as she hit her she virtually came to a er , a stop because of the fact she wa she started to brake as soon as she saw the the children appear er , but ne never the less contact was made but thankfully for her and for the child the the contact was a a at no significant speed , the child was just knocked off her feet and she got up and waved to Mrs and said I 'm alright and she ran off and she was away before Mrs had time , even to undo her safety belt to get out of the car . |