Example sentences of "[pron] as [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drew her against him , linking her arm in his as they walked along the track . |
| 2 | Their clothes were an abrasive barrier between them , and her hands were as urgent as his as she peeled off the same black dress she seemed to have been wearing for the past century . |
| 3 | It had seemed to him that her eyes looked right into his as he stood in the darkened hall , staring into the room . |
| 4 | I see ( and Summerchild sees ) the young provincial historian becoming even more silent and preoccupied than Summerchild himself as they look at the worn carpets and unoccupied chairs . |
| 5 | " And now I suppose it 'll be my fault the heating has n't got better immediately , " he muttered to himself as he walked along the narrow passageway . |
| 6 | He said it aloud to himself as he trudged up the stairs . |
| 7 | Denis smiled to himself as he thought of the jingle going the rounds : |
| 8 | Sacked three times from the county football manager post , McEniff can be forgiven the odd pinch of himself as he takes in the widespread adulation accorded to him now everywhere he goes . |
| 9 | " We 'll get it right now though , " he said to himself as he ascended through the castle 's twisted interior , and the light faded and the cold grew more sharp , and he gathered his furs more closely around him . |
| 10 | Fred sighed to himself as he looked at the rest of the meat lying on the chopping block and at the pile of dough still to be rolled out . |
| 11 | It occurred to me that as I had met nobody as I walked through the gate and went upstairs , there was no need to encounter anyone now , going down , and I moved my chair from the window . |
| 12 | I think they 're perhaps , if anything too generous because er , I will remind you as I said of the , at least three hundred companies who are doing pretty effective work in this area . |
| 13 | You could feel the floor trembling beneath you as it turned on the power and climbed . ’ |
| 14 | So , of course , what happened was that you had all these wonderful posters about you as you walked in the foyer and as the punters came out drunk , you sold them weekends in Ibiza . |
| 15 | And what I would quite like to do is to see you as you come to the end of the starter pack and I think the starter pack is Oh I ca n't remember how many days treatment is in it . |
| 16 | You stop leaving doors open behind you as you come into the house . |
| 17 | You hold the log out in front of you as you walk towards the bed . |
| 18 | Colour is the first thing that hits you as you walk through the door . |
| 19 | Think of all the information your eyes collect for you as you walk in the street , talk to someone , catch a train , read a newspaper , take part in a meeting . |
| 20 | The minor irritation on returning to the car is that it is directly in front of you as you descend to the north , but there is nowhere to cross the river . |
| 21 | Geoffrey Moorhouse uses Bury as his pivot : he explores it fact by fact , family by family ; this little town in the moors bore a hideous amount of the slaughter in the Dardanelles , no matter what your Australian neighbour may tell you as he leans on the bar and his legend . |
| 22 | Slackening her step , she felt hope renewing itself as she strolled along the pavements past tubs of flowering plants interspersed with benches crowded with people resting their tired feet or simply sitting back and enjoying the sunshine while they watched the passers-by . |
| 23 | This problem should soon resolve itself as you adjust to the diet . |
| 24 | Now , my natural caution exerted itself as I stared round the banqueting hall . |
| 25 | In the context above , Mr Lorry did not perceive the actual change itself as it came over the doctor . |
| 26 | Indeed , we could not be there , since we have neither access to the classrooms where ‘ disorder ’ rules , nor if we had would social life reconstitute itself as it existed before the camera , tape recorders and people accountable as social scientists were upon the scene . |
| 27 | It is a practical objection not one of principle , and I believe that it was the fundamental reason that Lord Reid , for example , considered the general rule to be a good one as he said in the passage my noble and learned friend has cited from Beswick v. Beswick [ 1968 ] A.C. 58 , 74A . |
| 28 | In light of this , he expected no reward but this day he knew he had received one as he stood at the door of a ward of children on whom he had operated , now sleeping peacefully and painlessly . |
| 29 | But that one As you saw from the the past papers that 's a usually quite a bit of marks go in for that . |
| 30 | Liam was n't sure , but he had the feeling Nellie was beginning to take an interest , and was even enjoying herself as they sat in the bus . |