Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] as [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A JURY sat spellbound yesterday as they heard the ‘ chilling ’ account of estate agent Stephanie Slater 's terrifying eight-day kidnap ordeal at the hands of alleged killer Michael Sams . |
| 2 | Everyone watched as the water reached the top of the men 's thighs , then their hips , before finally becoming shallower again as they passed the mid-point in the river and approached the opposite bank . |
| 3 | I 'll remi remind you of those again as I reach the various Lots . |
| 4 | THE leading yachts on the second leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race were almost in line abreast yesterday as they approached the finish at Fremantle . |
| 5 | THE leading yachts on the second leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race were almost in line abreast yesterday as they approached the finish here . |
| 6 | It appeared just as impregnable yesterday as he survived the first two sets without being broken . |
| 7 | The scene , without the players , is the same today as you enter the low walled garden with its four pleasing square summer-houses at the corners and its grand sweeping steps leading up Swangrove is its exotic and inimitable rendering of the local Cotswold style . |
| 8 | The man did the same again as he turned the paper , revealing to Mungo the front page with its lurid headline : ‘ BIRD 'S HEAD CLUE TO GIRL 'S DEATH . |