Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 We walked out and staggered back to our beds , pushing out the dummies we had left there as decoys , using rolled up overcoats and our pyjamas .
2 Boris Gidaspov , the Leningrad city and oblast first secretary who had emerged recently as one of the most prominent party conservatives , said that " complete disorganization of the executive mechanism " was responsible for growing destabilization in the country .
3 Erm Foxes in the Garden with the R S P C A photos I had rejected yesterday as well , so that was a good day .
4 Shortly before his fifteenth birthday he began boxing professionally as ‘ Kid ’ Lewis at the Judaean Club , Whitechapel , where he had nearly fifty contests , and when Premierland opened he boxed there thirty-five times in 1912 .
5 As the fumes cleared from his brain he began to speculate seriously as to how the iconograph worked .
6 Molly 's sleep had been deep and dreamless but she woke up early , saw Hugh unconscious beside her and replaced the sheet he had kicked away as she might cover one of the children .
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