Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [noun pl] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An empty drink tube rolled between their feet as the jitney wheeled into motion , whisking them away from the cargo concourse and plunging into the tunnels of Plenty . |
| 2 | Then we were confined to our rooms as the Corporals organised some sort of excuse for the Sergeants and Sergeant-Major . |
| 3 | Berger watched the race for a while and it was tempting to speculate on his thoughts as the cars of his former employer , Ferrari , screamed by in second and third places , Alesi keeping a respectful distance behind his team leader . |
| 4 | Witty , and sharp , Sarah was seen by her contemporaries as the queen of the season especially after her father had organized a splendid coming-of-age party in 1973 at Castle Rising , a Norman castle in Norfolk . |
| 5 | Fire danced in his eyes as the cool night air hit her naked breast . |
| 6 | If she had been a religious person she would have put it down to retribution for her sins , but she had lost whatever faith she had had in her years as the Madam of Dublin 's most fashionable brothel . |
| 7 | The Loire valley region is especially noted for its châteaux as the fifteenth century court was not yet fixed in Paris and this hunting area was a favoured one for the royal house , who visited loyal subjects in their castle homes . |
| 8 | And Rowbotham wrote a piece based on her feelings as the annus mirabilis of 1968 drew to a conclusion . |
| 9 | For better or for worse the studio system the moguls created , dubbed by its detractors as the slave trade , which had discovered and nursed the greatest names of Hollywood of three decades , and probably ever , was on the verge of collapse , though as Elizabeth Taylor put it so succinctly : ‘ The death rattle seemed never ending . ’ |
| 10 | This was a quite remarkable transformation in a man who only two years before had talked of dying : neither fame nor literary achievement had brought him any contentment , and in the end it was human love , the love that he had dismissed in his writings as the consolation only of ordinary men , that rescued him from a lifetime of misery and isolation . |
| 11 | While he has his backers the nature of Mr Birt 's shake-up at the corporation , introducing distinctly Thatcherite market-forces into an organisation at least as set in its ways as the civil service , but many times more internally political , means there are many ready to use the episode to raise other questions against him . |
| 12 | Recently , part of the Jackson operation was transferred to Japan , and the first fruits of this rearrangement include this , the model JIX4MR , known to its friends as the Infinity XL … |
| 13 | Small children , watching the falling snowflakes from inside the hut , began to cry and reach for their parents as the snow-slope parted and two strange , spindly creatures clad only in red thermals and inner boots emerged like primordial reptilian embryos . |
| 14 | In an effort to make the bill more acceptable , its Democratic sponsors included a provision which specifically prohibited the establishment of quotas , defined by its supporters as the hiring of a fixed proportion of minority workers regardless of their qualifications . |
| 15 | Knowledge is the product of an interaction between our percepts mediated by sense-experience and the concepts which arise in our minds as the means of ordering and interpreting the percepts . |
| 16 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 17 | The Falangists derived what power they had from their positions as the instruments of Francoism ; they had no organizational capacity outside the framework of the regime and no international support at all . |
| 18 | He leaped to his feet as the kitchen door suddenly opened , then crept backwards until he was concealed in the darker shadows beyond the turn of the banister . |
| 19 | The music halls , professional football , the ‘ penny dreadful ’ comics and the ‘ penny bloods ’ which were said to be inducements to crime and immorality , the rowdy presence of working-class people at seaside resorts on Bank Holiday excursions , the evening promenade of young people that was ridiculed by their elders as the ‘ monkey parade ’ , the depravity and violence associated with the pub — they all came under attack at different times . |
| 20 | He had been with UNACO for two years and , despite his maverick tendencies , he was widely regarded by his peers as the best field operative in the organization . |
| 21 | As the plaintiff was as much to blame for his injuries as the defendants , his damages were reduced by 50% . |
| 22 | Curiously enough , since by definition a stationer ‘ stays put ’ , they are variously described on their publications as the ‘ walking ’ , ‘ running ’ and even ‘ flying ’ stationers ; and there is adequate testimony to their activities and to their influence . |
| 23 | The cheap TV rocked on its legs as the man grabbed at it in an over-eager embrace , and Joe turned to the woman on the bed . |
| 24 | The organ is described by its devotees as the King of Instruments , and it is certainly very versatile when properly designed . |
| 25 | This approach has been described by its supporters as the ‘ uniquely logical ’ method of attempting to establish CETI . |
| 26 | Described by its makers as the ‘ ultimate Ford ’ , the RS Cosworth will soon be a regular sight on the rally circuit as it will form the mainstay of the Ford works team . |
| 27 | The ACE Initiative , hailed by its founders as the ‘ most significant computer industry announcement of the 1990s ’ just twelve short months ago ( UX No 329 ) , lies in tatters . |
| 28 | Each minor modification of the CAP has been hailed by its authors as the definitive reform . |