Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] as [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One part-time farmer was killed when struck by a falling tree during a storm while a forestry worker died after a section of a felled tree trunk apparently rolled over as he attempted to handle it . |
| 2 | By this route , indirect and long drawn out as it had been , the long history of capital punishment for murder came to a conclusion . |
| 3 | ‘ You , Sir , ’ he wrote to Sir John Franklin , ‘ fully understand this pleasure particularly when one 's visits are directed to a fresh field abounding with novelties ; if I find my labors as much rewarded here as they have been in V. D. Land , I shall consider myself amply paid . ’ |
| 4 | In Wilson 's first defeat by a British competitor over this distance for 2½ years the two swam neck and neck for just over half the race before Akers suddenly pulled ahead as he searched for an Olympic qualifying time . |
| 5 | ‘ I would have been interested in Porter if Michael had not come through as he has , ’ he said . |
| 6 | There was a claim for forty two thousand seven hundred and eighty six pounds and eighty six pence for the cost of alterations to the plaintiff 's home already carried out as I have indicated already , that was discharged by payment and by local authority grant of nine thousand eight hundred and forty seven pounds and an interim payment of thirty two thousand nine hundred and thirty nine pounds eighty six pence . |
| 7 | Would such a person , watching Peter now , reading the prayers of Rite B in his level , pleasant voice , notice that resentment lay , like his blood , just under his skin , because the life he had chosen had not turned out as he had expected it to ? |
| 8 | Documentation , too , is best built in as you go along . |
| 9 | The depressing view of the unsightly pylons marching across the valley floor , heavy traffic thundering along the Woodhead Pass road , five reservoirs and a disused railway line , is soon left behind as you negotiate the tussocky grass slops below Long Gutter Edge towards the entrance to Wildboar Clough . |
| 10 | The Allied guns had just started up as I entered the orchard . |
| 11 | The heavy furniture of the lobby was still arranged exactly as it had been in 1950 . |
| 12 | His head still spun slightly as he followed the words and looked upwards intermittently to see by the expression of a face if someone had forgotten their lines . |
| 13 | If it has a Solex carb then this is probably worn out as they have not been fitted for many years . |
| 14 | Roman 's lips curled slightly ; he started to walk and the stream of people automatically flowed apart as they approached , leaving them a clear path . |
| 15 | As he walked back out into the foyer , the girls automatically straightened again as he passed them . |
| 16 | Damon Hill 's challenge in his first race with the Williams team also ended early as he collided with Italian Alessandro Zanardi in a Lotus after 16 laps . |
| 17 | Ligier team-mate Martin Brundle 's had a luckless 100th grand prix and was forced to retire and Damon Hill 's challenge in his first race with Williams also ended early as he collided with Italian Alessandro Zanardi in a Lotus after 16 laps . |
| 18 | PROVINCIAL LIFE as such is now left behind as we turn to various types of connections between it and the political and cultural centres of Russia . |
| 19 | OK , so her date with O'Shea had n't turned out as he 'd imagined , but the fact remained she had chosen her old college buddy over him — a fact that rankled for reasons he did n't care to examine . |
| 20 | He let his hand wander a little , and got it petulantly pushed away as she heaved herself out of the clutches of the chesterfield 's upholstery , and sat up on the edge of it . |
| 21 | But I have n't gone really as I hoped cos I 'd envisaged having the membership list with sort of names of who 'll make cakes , who 'll help on the stall and then know who to phone |
| 22 | ‘ Things have n't worked out as I had hoped , ’ he started . |
| 23 | This Billy Bunterish buffoon is constantly but cheerfully beaten up as he pursues his doomed amorous adventures , for no man outdoes him in ‘ passive valour ’ . |
| 24 | She was aware that his hands had moved to her waist , then fallen back as she stood up . |
| 25 | But his gaze was rigidly fixed ahead as he steered the little helicopter up the meandering Thames . |
| 26 | The congregation raggedly joined in as he invoked every dark force in the universe . |
| 27 | It was all neatly laid out as it had been the day before . |
| 28 | WORKMEN spoke today of the constant threat they live with day by day : that they will be mercilessly gunned down as they go about earning a living . |
| 29 | Privacy was not a word in our vocabulary , and postcards and diaries were mercilessly read aloud as we trekked through the jungle of North Borneo . |
| 30 | Although the Panopticon was never built exactly as he designed it ( a modified version was constructed at Millbank on the Thames and opened , with extremely poor results , in 1917 ) , imprisonment rapidly became the pre-eminent method of punishment . |