Example sentences of "as [pers pn] walked [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole operation was developing like a Grahame Greene novel as I walked up a dark country lane to the waiting car . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But of course , I told myself as I walked along an echoing corridor , it never did hurt nowadays . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Rickie was literally dancing in circles around me as I walked down the dock towards his sister , but then he paused in his frenetic progress to light one cigarette from the stump of another , and I wondered just what perverted fate decreed that such a boy should receive a legacy of six million dollars . |
| 6 | It was this image that accompanied me as I walked down the rue de Fleuve , stopping for a final coup d'oeil at the squat church crouching on its gravel ground . |
| 7 | She wanted to be noticed in all her finery and as she walked up the aisle she kept stopping to give a little cough on the back of her hand and looking from side to side . |
| 8 | She saw Elaine as soon as she walked up the planked wooden steps to the bar , and noticed as she drew closer that her friend was already tipsy . |
| 9 | At 1.30am , a 46-year-old was assaulted as she walked alone Hospital Lane and at 3am he attacked a 22-year-old as she walked along a path at Greystone Road . |
| 10 | The eighteen year old was punched as she walked along a path in Campbell Park in Milton Keynes . |
| 11 | She was grabbed from behind as she walked along a footpath near Monks Way in Milton Keynes . |
| 12 | She was grabbed from behind as she walked along a footpath near Monks Way in Milton Keynes . |
| 13 | The girl , who had started her paper round to earn money for Chrismas presents , was grabbed as she walked along an alleyway after finishing her Saturday morning deliveries . |
| 14 | As she walked down the wide stone steps to the ground floor her confusion was diverted by the sight of two men in their twenties , chatting together and keeping a watchful early evening eye over two three-year-olds playing hide and seek round the curve of the banisters . |
| 15 | As she walked down the crazy-pavement paths to the lily pond , Constance was struck by the blackbirds hopping around in the sun . |
| 16 | ‘ Darling I 'm so proud of you , ’ he said as she walked down the staircase at Clarence House . |
| 17 | As she walked down the aisle her heart brimmed over with love and adoration for Charles . |
| 18 | As she walked down the companionway to the lower deck the breeze moulded her couture suit of cream silk bouquet against the contours of her body . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She was thinking about Donna later , as she walked down the ward to see if the new patient had arrived . |
| 21 | But as we walked further the noise we had heard , which at first might have been taken for wind and rain , began to break up into shouts , cries , calls , over a ground-bass which I can only call a sigh : a deep sigh , repeated over and over , as if the wide world itself were sighing . |
| 22 | ‘ We had been to the pub and as we walked along a well-lit walkway this man came towards us . |
| 23 | I can remember him saying , as we walked down the second fairway , ‘ Willie , if I can win these people ( the gallery ? over from Jack [ Nicklaus ] so that they want me to win , I 'll win for them . ’ |
| 24 | On the 18th tee we hit the same 3-wood , and as we walked down the fairway the crowds were massed around the last green ; the noise was unbelievable . |
| 25 | Chopra felt frightened as they walked up the narrow stairway to the battlements . |
| 26 | The embalmers had done what they could but , even as they walked up the nave , both Cranston and Athelstan caught the whiff of putrefaction . |
| 27 | Shivering in their nakedness , and all shorn of their hair , the actors kept on only their stage boots as they walked back the way they had come . |
| 28 | ‘ No need to get shirty , ’ Marler responded mildly as they walked along a quiet , carpeted corridor . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He continued to talk thus now , as they walked down the grand vista , away from the formal gardens and into the woodland rides , where classical figures loomed from the undergrowth and the serpentine rill wound away towards a distant temple . |