Example sentences of "[noun] as [pers pn] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have learned to please , to gauge and sniff the air before I move off , to swing my head from side to side as I put one foot carefully in front of the other , ears and hair raised to twang on the slightest change in the atmosphere . |
| 2 | Ever since the first time she had seen the Hare-woman standing in the Post Office , staring with her luminous eyes as she told one lie after another , she had known that there was something wrong about her . |
| 3 | And weigh those matters up in your mind as you hear one evidence after the other . |
| 4 | Marvel at Henri La Mothe as he dives 28 feet into 12–⅜ inches of water . |
| 5 | One witness described the scene as they uncovered 18 bodies : ‘ Everyone starts digging frantically , some with spades , others with pick-axes , and others with their bare hands . |
| 6 | ‘ It would be ideal if we could find more than one corgi as we have two performances a day . ’ |
| 7 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
| 8 | You can tell we 're English , she thought that evening as they sat four tables apart in the dining room , books propped against their separate water jugs . |
| 9 | There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago . |
| 10 | We Brits now drink twice as much wine as we did ten years ago the equivalent of half a bottle of wine a week for every man and woman in the country . |
| 11 | The 77-year-old ignored flashing blue lights as he drove nine miles down the middle lane of the M5 at 40mph . |
| 12 | Altogether , over a span of eleven years , Lottie Dod lost only five times in open singles as she collected five Wimbledon , five Northern , and three West of England titles , as well as one in Ireland and one at Waterloo . |
| 13 | Throughout the book Eccleshall demonstrates an impressive authority and ease with his sources as he ransacks 300 years of Conservative thought to discover the meaning of Conservatism . |
| 14 | He was pushing her skirt up , sweat on his tanned forehead as he slid one hand underneath her , cupping her rear while his mouth claimed hers hungrily . |
| 15 | PYRAMID TO TAKE $23m HIT AGAINST ITS FIGURES AS IT CUTS 110 JOBS |
| 16 | The filly provided a fitting final parading of the chocolate and gold colours of the White Lodge Stud as she waltzed seven lengths clear of eight tired rivals . |
| 17 | Of the two the Almond has the poorest water quality as it serves four sewage works directly viz Whitburn , Blackburn , East Calder and Newbridge and two works by tributaries , Fauldhouse via the Breich Water and Winchburgh via the Niddrie Burn . |
| 18 | Two campaigners , an Englishman and a Frenchman , brushed away tears as they recalled 453 airmen who never returned from World War 2 sorties . |
| 19 | WALES : Tories breathed a sigh of relief as they kept six MPs in the Principality despite two former Welsh Office ministers being unseated , writes Michael Fleet . |
| 20 | This was not just a ‘ one-off ’ mistake as I have two examples , both half fare , and in case the type is too small to see , they are the two bottom examples of the single tickets illustrated . |
| 21 | Went to look up her reading , they said had to pay I 've used three times as much gas as I did three times as much gas as I needed last time |
| 22 | At the time , I decided that the slight tremor as he placed two cups on his office desk was due to nervousness at giving his first national magazine interview . |
| 23 | there at the bank as you know one minute nothing |
| 24 | Did they try to go for passing shots as they stood two feet behind the baseline ? |
| 25 | Pat O'Keefe slipped and fell as the boat was setting off and injured his hand as he plunged six feet over the side of the harbour , and had to be rescued by the crowd of journalists who had gathered to see Jack off . |
| 26 | Davies did n't drop a shot as she carded six birdies and an eagle in her round , after starting the day six strokes behind the French golfer . |
| 27 | Middlesbrough found it impossible to come to terms with the Israeli as he snatched two first-half goals . |
| 28 | He found himself looking round for Slater as she put one hand on the mantelpiece and slipped her shoe back on , fastening the strap again . |
| 29 | Ruth looked up at him with pain in her heart as he poured two glasses . |
| 30 | He looked up , frowning , and started almost out of his skin as he saw four heads gawping in . |