Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 2 | Mildred tried to shriek , but it only came out as a frenzied croaking . |
| 3 | As they set off to cross a bridge already cordoned off as a prohibited area , the police hurriedly re-formed in front of them . |
| 4 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 5 | However , Scandinavia rapidly grew up as an important new market . |
| 6 | It usually ended up as a slow jog with a buck thrown in for good measure . |
| 7 | Here , as with the vernacular , the Council for the sake of strengthening the ‘ active participation ’ which it correctly laid down as a vital principle of liturgy , overthrew a deformation which had become customary in the Middle Ages and against which the Reformation had vigorously protested . |
| 8 | They often finished up as the main item on the menu at the feast after their visit . |
| 9 | JCC , a 14-year old company with 100 staff , originally started out as a high-end workstation manufacturer . |
| 10 | They sped down the warm evening pavement for about fifty yards and then pulled up as an elderly man , walking his dog , came out of a driveway in front of them . |
| 11 | He cursed the shareholders again , then looked up as the Annamese congaie appeared soundlessly beside him . |
| 12 | This white turkey virtually took over as the sole breed ; and , by the Christmas of 1959 , there was hardly any demand for the bronze bird . |