Example sentences of "[verb] as [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him I had planned to take him to lunch but he said he could n't wait as he had some business to attend to , but he 'd be in a pub called the Banker if I could pick him up about three . |
| 2 | He had come as he did each day with bread from the baker 's iron oven that stood open to the lane in the souk . |
| 3 | Surkov 's hand trembled as he lit another cigarette . |
| 4 | Throttles opened wide , the engines roared as they regained flying speed , the Vimy skimmed the waves so close that the spray beat underneath the wings . |
| 5 | Other more exotic applications for the device will appear as it undergoes further improvement . |
| 6 | See I do n't feel as I did last night but it 's still there , you know I just take some more tablets like , you know . |
| 7 | He apologises as he stifles another yawn and tries to look interested . |
| 8 | At Carnival Cruise Lines we do not have any minimum age limits as we judge each person on his or her ability and personality . |
| 9 | On the clean sound , reverb really does make a difference , adding as it does greater depth to any guitar 's tone . |
| 10 | Newman nodded as they passed one dwelling . |
| 11 | Christina 's hand shook as she sipped golden rum from the bottle and passed it to Stephen . |
| 12 | Productivity increases as we spend more time and energy , but only up to a critical point . |
| 13 | Firstly , fibre-rich foods are more filling and thus satisfying , though of course they take more work to consume as they require more chewing . |
| 14 | Keith grinned as he selected another file . |
| 15 | Their jit jive music keeps the listener moving as it blends high energy , finger-picking good guitar melodies with deep African rhythms and percussion . |
| 16 | This figure is non-committal as to the precise mechanism likely to lead to the generation of passive margin upwarps as it illustrates secondary convection as well as non-uniform ( depth-dependent extension ) and the effects of lateral heat flow into unthinned lithosphere . |
| 17 | He 's holding his hand out to me , yelling at me , but I 'm stuck there , terrified , screaming , and I do n't know what to do , ca n't think what to do , even while he 's yelling at me to help him , come out to him , get a branch , but I 'm petrified at the thought of setting foot on that white , treacherous surface and I ca n't imagine finding a branch , ca n't think what to do as I look one way towards the tall trees above the hidden gorge and the other along the shore of the loch towards the boat-house but there are no branches , there 's only snow everywhere , and then Andy stops struggling and slips under the whiteness . |
| 18 | If the Prince of Wales had not stood up and spoken as he did that day , the government might have remained entrenched on the subject for considerably longer than it was . |
| 19 | Lilley : Nothing will be spared as he scrutinises social security expenditure |
| 20 | Marion Conroy was on stage until the final curtain calls and came up the stairs with the rest of the cast afterwards , observing as she did that Pepper went into his No. 2 and shut the door but that Cissy opened it and went in after him , the wide-eyed babyish stare that was the caricaturists ' joy quite absent . |
| 21 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
| 22 | Experience the brilliant cinematic graphics and gameplay as you help nuclear physicist Lester Chaykin , transported by a freak accident to another world , find his way home . |
| 23 | I 'm sure you feel as I do that openness is the best policy in these affairs . |
| 24 | A learning technique in which individuals perform a series of sequential actions and say what they are doing as they perform each action . |
| 25 | In this latest attack a nineteen year old woman was sexually assaulted as she crossed this footbridge walking home . |
| 26 | With only fifteen yards to go Crisp tightened as he felt Red Rum 's presence but it was his dying effort and only lasted for a second . |
| 27 | The rage and hatred I felt as I wrote this letter was terrifying , like a sudden , violent illness . |
| 28 | He felt as he had that night when he invoked the power of Callanish to intercede and save Minch 's life . |
| 29 | The National Gallery must be very satisfied to have concluded as it did last week . |
| 30 | In fact , she thought as she splashed cold water on to her hot face , she had n't seen him all morning — perhaps he 'd taken himself off for a walk . |