Example sentences of "[verb] as [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are Scottish ? ’ and each time she touches my kilt with her hand , throwing her head back and laughing as we spin around the dance floor . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's on his way back to the hotel , ’ Vashinov reported as he put down the phone . |
| 3 | ‘ You told me ’ , I say as we bounce along the ever-dwindling road , ‘ that you thought of marrying Lady De Marr . |
| 4 | She stopped as I held up a finger . |
| 5 | But she almost turned and fled as she came round a corner and found herself face to face with Guido . |
| 6 | " That was n't history , that was Hollywood ! " he exclaimed as he kicked off an examination of interpretations of history . |
| 7 | ‘ You can leave after lunch , ’ he said flatly , and then paused , frowning as he pulled out a vast painting of Rachel lying on a blazing sunlit beach , her slender body clad in a brief white bikini , her face young and lovely . |
| 8 | Like London in the nineteen-forties , Paris seemed to have assembled every uniform and race loyal to the Allied cause ; and what variety , what colour the Moroccans and the Senegalese , Annamites and Malgaches , presented as they mingled down the Champs Elysées with immaculate cavalry officers , Foreign Legionnaires , kilted Highlanders , pretty nursing sisters , and now a sprinkling of American flyers from the Lafayette Squadron ! |
| 9 | They became widely separated as they struggled up the slope . |
| 10 | Anne could see , though , that he was trembling as he picked up the handles of the handcart and moved away . |
| 11 | ‘ Hi , lover , ’ she said , her lips trembling as she fought back the urge to weep with happiness at his recovery . |
| 12 | ‘ Suppose old Hilbert 's face were to appear at the window now , ’ Adam had said as they went up the bask stairs to bed . |
| 13 | ‘ It was good of you to get in touch with me , Simon , ’ she murmured as he hooked down the loft-ladder and she followed him up into the roof space . |
| 14 | He turned as they came up the spiral wrought-iron staircase . |
| 15 | Bodie nodded as he thought through the implications of that . |
| 16 | Sophie nodded as she cleaned up the wound , then , after giving an injection of antibiotic , she stood for a moment in thought . |
| 17 | They would take a lazy bottom turn , stall as they climbed up the wave , then disappear behind the curtain for a second or two , reappearing like actors at the end of a play to take a bow . |
| 18 | Caroline frowned as she glanced out the window . |
| 19 | They were in room order , A , B — Smart — Avery — Her hands shook as she drew out the file and turned back the cover . |
| 20 | She sighed as she switched on the ignition and the Glory moved off . |
| 21 | Its defence mechanism is not rapid reproduction like the greenfly , instead it surrounds itself with the familiar frothy blob of air bubbles that it forms as it spits out the sap it has taken from the plant — instead of spitting it back into the plant . |
| 22 | But despite his willingness to collaborate with this tall , blond , handsome editor and publisher with his square , even teeth invariably clamped over fat Turkish cigarettes and whose ice-blue eyes sometimes narrowed as he weighed up the profit or nuisance value of a potential contributor , Vaughan regarded Lehmann critically , detecting mistrust and calculation behind the editor 's apparent kindness and friendliness . |
| 23 | The girl , who had started her paper round to earn money for Chrismas presents , was grabbed as she walked along an alleyway after finishing her Saturday morning deliveries . |
| 24 | She sniffed as she put down the parcel of books and took off her gloves , and sniffed again as Maxie sank back on his bench , relieved that his beautiful black Cadillac was intact . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're nicely tucked away here in case someone comes looking for us , ’ he remarked as he switched off the engine . |
| 26 | A glorious red butterfly with sapphire blue eyes on its wingtips fluttered and curtsied in front of me , moorland sheep scuttled reluctantly off the track as I ploughed towards them and a group of walkers cursed as they struggled up the bank . |
| 27 | I noticed the leather of my shoes darken as it picked up the moisture from the grass . |
| 28 | Beefy is a hero to the thousands that turn out to see him through rain and shine as he marches down the south coast . |
| 29 | Luke moved swiftly round the desk to where she sat , and she flinched as he put out a hand , lifting a loose , shining curl away from the side of her brow . |
| 30 | All bedrooms have en suite or private facilities and colour TV , their attractive wooden shutters are always appreciated as they block out the dawn chorus — traffic noise is not a problem ! |