Example sentences of "as [pers pn] entered the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt like Father Christmas as I entered the front door of the cottage to be welcomed like a long-lost son . |
| 2 | As I entered the big house by the back door I noticed a lot of activity , people dashing here and there . |
| 3 | Southgate caught up with me as I entered the main hall and saw Santerre and others sitting round the high table . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've fallen , ’ she said to me as I entered the little porch tacked on to the front of the house . |
| 5 | I had already decided to do that as soon as I entered the darkened chamber where the royal beast sat slouched on a chair . |
| 6 | Elaine exclaimed , her delight evident as she entered the open-plan living- and dining-room decorated in a fresh lemon and blue fabric which Christina had chosen . |
| 7 | Reflecting in her vague kindly way that it was very nice for Jasper to have friends of his own age to play with in the holidays , a lot better than in the days when he had lived in that tower block in Walworth , she was still thinking along these lines as she entered the gateless gateway and found her eyes irresistibly turning upwards to the bell . |
| 8 | Joan looked wholly enchanting as she entered the great hall that evening beside the duchess . |
| 9 | As she entered the narrow lane , the soot-blackened buildings seemed to close in on her threateningly . |
| 10 | As she entered the little parlour behind her , Theda was brought up short by the sight of a stranger standing before the fireplace . |
| 11 | Kelly felt quite calm as she entered the large committee room . |
| 12 | Laura Wyndham 's deep sapphire-blue eyes sparkled with amusement , her lips widening into a broad , wry smile as she entered the large living-room of the penthouse apartment . |
| 13 | As we entered the main causeway which snaked through the trees to the manor 's main door , the sight of Royston killed the song on our lips and the joy in our hearts . |
| 14 | As we entered the bloated face nodded us a silent greeting . |
| 15 | There was still enough ill-temper left in him to startle Vulcan into a gallop when two spurs were simultaneously jabbed into his body as they entered the straight stretch of forest track . |
| 16 | As they entered the little hall , two detectives who had been playing cards swept their cards off the table like schoolboys caught in the act . |
| 17 | Such Methodenstreite ( battles of methods ) divided the world of the social scientists , but in so far as they entered the natural sciences — even the biological ones on the sensitive issue of evolution — they reflected an intrusion of ideological preferences rather than professional debate . |
| 18 | As they entered the last fortnight of the share sale there was still a shade under half the £6.5 million to be raised . |
| 19 | The sociology of culture , as it entered the second half of the twentieth century , was broadly compounded of work done from these two positions , much of it of great local value . |
| 20 | [ T ] he remarkable thing about the British press , as it entered the twentieth century , was its resemblance … to the press of mid-Victorian times , in some respects to that of pre-Victorian times . |
| 21 | A battered life-size carving of Kean as Shylock greeted Charles as he entered the front door . |
| 22 | But he had been unafraid , although a tremor had gone through him as he entered the great Sun Chamber and found Dierdriu alone and waiting for him . |
| 23 | Franco seemed to be riding on the crest of the wave as he entered the second decade of his rule — his " magistracy " as he called it in his own grandiloquent language . |
| 24 | As soon as he entered the first field to be cut his mates up-ended him and gave him the same treatment which stopped only when he shouted ‘ Beer ! ’ . |
| 25 | Fred 's smile was brief as he entered the small sitting-room above the street on that February evening , and he turned and entered the back room where the baby lay in her cot . |
| 26 | David Swan , who had arrived that afternoon to join his wife Carole at the conference , spotted Amaranth Wilikins almost as soon as he entered the Grand Hotel . |
| 27 | He felt in reasonable shape , as he entered the local MDs office . |
| 28 | As he entered the paved courtyard the rain came whipping in from the sea , lashing against the car and obliterating everything . |