Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] as [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northampton did win a scrum against the head on their line but they could not escape and a ferocious tackle by Pepper knocked Foale backwards as he tried to drive from a scrum . |
| 2 | Cardiff turned to see Duvall loosening his overcoat slowly as he moved to draw level behind them as they watched the elevator doors . |
| 3 | Cabinet in Rome rebuilt in a day ITALY 'S Prime Minister , Giuliano Amato , reshuffled three key cabinet posts yesterday as he struggled to keep his government afloat after bribery scandals that have cut a swathe through the Italian political class . |
| 4 | I picked up Eddie just as it started to rain again , and we chatted all the way back to Simon 's office while she dressed herself in street clothes from a Sainsbury 's shopping-bag . |
| 5 | CHRIS WILKINSON suffered a painful reversal of fortunes today as he slumped to defeat by world No 191 David Witt at Queens . |
| 6 | He commented : ‘ I felt the time was right to make a personal move forward as I wanted to have direct control over my own destiny and re-invest into the Province . ’ |
| 7 | Little by little the Grants began to do more things together as they came to trust each other , and to find enjoyment in each other 's company . |
| 8 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
| 9 | They left their goods behind as they strove to find their Canaan . |
| 10 | Rose , laughing , took the gloves away as he pretended to need them to wear about the house . |
| 11 | Our archers caught the bastards just as they began to climb the scaling ladders , whilst men-at-arms , using the long forked poles lying on the parapet walk , shoved them out of the way . |
| 12 | The court heard that , on the afternoon of the mugging , Mrs Henderson had been to a jumble sale with friends , and refused a lift home as she wanted to go shopping . |
| 13 | But her feet hit the stairs soundly as she went to put them in water . |
| 14 | He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage . |
| 15 | Blackburn boss Dalglish faced the nostalgia head-on as he prepared to lead out the opposition against Liverpool for the first time since his astonishing walk-out 20 months ago . |
| 16 | FURIOUS relatives were grappled to a courtroom floor yesterday as they tried to attack a killer joyrider . |
| 17 | THE breakaway Yugoslavian republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina sank deeper into bloodshed and turmoil yesterday as it prepared to receive recognition as an independent state by the European Community . |
| 18 | You — ’ His voice disappeared , and I had to put the phone away from my ear again as he started to hammer the handset against the walls of the call-box . |
| 19 | But his wife Shelley seemed in great shape yesterday as she prepared to kick off a TV career . |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe not , ’ Maggie murmured worriedly , biting into her lip again as he continued to look down at her . |
| 21 | ‘ That was enlightening , ’ said Betty crossly as he turned to speak to another farmer . |
| 22 | A RUNAWAY schoolgirl was found in the nick-of-time yesterday as she prepared to flee to Portugal to rekindle a holiday romance . |
| 23 | Through the doors even as they began to close . |