Example sentences of "as [noun prp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Lisa stared back at him , numb and rigid , from the sofa , Alexander Vass rose swiftly to his feet and on long strides crossed to open the door . |
| 2 | ‘ Look what Mr Dobson gave me ! ’ were the first words from the little girl as Lisa had hurried through her next-door neighbour Josey 's front door . |
| 3 | As Lisa laid down the phone her hand was shaking . |
| 4 | As Lisa looked back at him , heart racing , eyes barely focusing , she was aware of the intensity of emotion that sprang from him . |
| 5 | As Lisa popped a breast of chicken into the microwave she glanced at the brightly coloured childish drawings secured by fruit-shaped magnets to the fridge door and her heart turned over with maternal pride . |
| 6 | As Lisa stuttered to a halt — had he read her mind or something ? — he added , ‘ After all , we 're not exactly strangers any more . ’ |
| 7 | As Lisa pushed the door open she felt a rush of antipathy at the sight of the dark figure seated behind the desk . |
| 8 | Folly watched in awful fascination as Lisa flicked through the cards . |
| 9 | ‘ Alexander said I ought to wear these , ’ she explained , bright-cheeked , as Lisa sat up with a start . |
| 10 | Kerry exclaimed as Lisa joined the other members of staff in the fabrics store-room to have a look at the damage . |
| 11 | As Lisa held the stone-hard gaze her heart was clattering . |
| 12 | As Lisa pulled the door open Josey stepped out into the night … and literally came within a hair 's breadth of walking straight into the tall dark figure who was striding up the path . |
| 13 | Your average post-political millennial rap , in other words ( or as Colin says , ‘ the-end-of-the-millennium psychosis blues ’ ) . |
| 14 | Finally , another of the ‘ new ’ songs , the famous Plaint , ‘ O let me weep , is not in the manuscript at all ( as Shedlock noted ) , nor was any space left for it ; and the score also lacks ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ , a song that was in the first version of the show and actually published in 1692 , in a slim volume entitled Select Songs in the Fairy Queen . |
| 15 | Some of these are complete movements , and could possibly represent blanks that he had managed to fill , as Shedlock suggested . |
| 16 | Elliott pushed the passenger door open with a foot as Goldman wrestled Nicola to the kerbside . |
| 17 | When Helen paused , he cannoned into her and she turned , offering a startled apology that turned into a cry of alarm as Goldman shoved her to one side . |
| 18 | As Crick points out , however , the right idea can only fit in to a mind which is trained , and predisposed to accept that idea . |
| 19 | Beckford was as impatient as Vathek to complete his building , but did not have a magical assistant ; the tower twice collapsed , for the last time in 1825 , and Beckford 's contractor confessed upon his death-bed that he had not provided it with foundations , although they had been specified and paid for . |
| 20 | Before World War II , as Drucker relates , ‘ all the books on management filled no more than a modest shelf ’ . |
| 21 | I intend to concentrate on provision for the 18 per cent unstatemented pupils who remain in mainstream schools but who , as Warnock reminded us , have special needs . |
| 22 | And it was as Doyle swung the car out into the traffic again that he glimpsed the girl from the oriental-art shop . |
| 23 | She looked round as Doyle returned with the Diet Cola . |
| 24 | ‘ Nothing , ’ she said then looked up as Doyle returned with her bourbon . |
| 25 | Sweat had stained his shirt and as Doyle approached he could smell the effort on the man 's body . |
| 26 | ‘ A drink for the lady , when you have a minute , ’ Bernard said as Doyle turned to go . |
| 27 | The sound of deep singing died away , and as Doyle paced restlessly up and down in front of the Cathedral , he heard that noisy shuffling and murmur of conversation that told of the imminent debouchment of several hundred men and women of precise military bearing . |
| 28 | Bodie asked , as Doyle hesitated , half out into the road , looking back over his shoulder . |
| 29 | As ICI struggles in the current climate to maintain its investment programme it might find the two thoughts sitting uncomfortably together . |
| 30 | And I began to think that if Uulaa-la was really as full of criminals as Frejji said , they were being very shy . |