Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] as [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of grinning Koreans from Kazakhstan craned their necks skywards as she spun like a top . |
| 2 | He had to double park there — does n't everyone ? — so he put the warning indicators on as he climbed in the back of the red Transit . |
| 3 | The machine turned upside down as I slid into the water . |
| 4 | I 'll drop the key in as I go past the lodge . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Pollensa ? ’ she croaked , punching out her floor and raising her eyes skywards as everyone did as the lift doors slid shut . |
| 6 | In fact , ‘ have a nice day ’ was originally coined as a deliberately longer and more personal message to have ringing in customers ' ears just as they walked off the premises , instead of the terminal ‘ bye ’ or ‘ see yah ’ , so they 'd come back . |
| 7 | The pangolin is a forest animal and at the same time a taxonomic enigma : it cuts across several distinct categories in Lele zoology just as it does in ours . |
| 8 | Killion opened fire at a hundred yards and emptied his drum in a series of probing bursts that brought a bloom of flames to the aircraft just as he skimmed over it . |
| 9 | Given the evidence that punishment which immediately precedes a forbidden act ( rarely possible for busy parents ) maximizes resistance to temptation and minimizes guilt , you might try not only to sanction misbehaviour promptly but ( where possible ) forestall your child 's action just as it gets under way . |
| 10 | A SOBBING mother cursed her daughter 's killer yesterday as she collapsed at the graveside of pop fan Helen Gorrie . |
| 11 | Funny girl Pamela Stephenson looked like she 'd joined the smile-high club yesterday as she jetted into Britain with pop star George Michael . |
| 12 | I watch Fairfax carefully as he talks to the laibon . |
| 13 | The man took a couple of steps back as they headed for him ; but then they stopped , as if they 'd sensed his fury and found it to be a wall that they hesitated to scale . |
| 14 | The trip from Jura that morning had been exciting enough , with a following sea cork-screwing the boat wildly as we ran before it , with the occasional shuddering ‘ gybe ’ when a shift of wind took us by surprise . |
| 15 | A passport inside containing the photograph of Eila Karjalainen , a Finnish student who 'd disappeared a few months before as she hitchhiked through Oxfordshire . |
| 16 | Dido 's sobbing for her old lover even as she lies in the arms of her new one — this melancholy , which Virgil , and following him Hardy , responded to with such sympathy , is for Pound deathly , it precludes the genuinely ‘ new ’ , which he urgently wants to find and to celebrate . |
| 17 | He lit up a cigarette and moved his mouth around as he inhaled as if chewing the flavour of the smoke . |
| 18 | Her skirt had ridden up and she clung to his shoulders convulsively as she yielded to the sweet torment of his long fingers stroking over her thighs . |
| 19 | Tears filled her eyes again as she thought of the little gravestone in the churchyard : In loving memory of William Richard France-Lynch , 1978–81 . |
| 20 | The sound of wheels turned in her ears again as she thought of Maman driving off to the railway station as if on some brisk pursuit . |
| 21 | James Courtney from Dundrod only broke his wrist and suffered severe bruising of his back and shoulders , despite being hurled into a field backwards as he skidded off the road . |
| 22 | Things like this are always hurtful but I hope that people will have faith just as they have in the resurrection of Jesus . |
| 23 | ‘ Just the one ? ’ he asked easily , taking up her case just as she reached for it . |
| 24 | Ace smiled sweetly , and slipped her mirrored sunglasses on as she headed for the reception area . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , do n't ! ’ said Miss Havisham crossly as we hurried past the little group again . |
| 26 | Gibbon launched a three-pronged attack from the north , north-west and west , cutting the Indians down as they stumbled from their lodges . |
| 27 | The animal is knitted as a single motif just as it appears on the graph . |
| 28 | In the south of France , and especially the southeast , the legacy of Ancient Rome represented the overwhelming influence on Gothic architecture just as it had on Romanesque here before this . |
| 29 | After hearing that they had been attending a high school graduation party , they were released by the judge on the condition that they were each driven to their parents ' home exactly as they appeared in court — with only a blanket for |
| 30 | ALISON Hargreaves and her children put in some low-altitude training in Scotland yesterday as they prepared for the high life of the Himalayas . |