Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] as [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once or twice as they waited for the ceremonial to begin he saw the eyes of the Annamese sovereign shift anxiously in their direction and he dabbed occasionally at his pale perspiring face with a silken handkerchief that he held concealed in one of his voluminous sleeves . |
| 2 | class as his/her own work , of direct relevance to his/her own life , rather than merely as something imposed from an external authority . |
| 3 | Long moments later he lifted his head from hers , his eyes darker than ever as they gazed at her . |
| 4 | The lines of bitterness seemed more pronounced than ever as she rose from her chair and crossed to the door . |
| 5 | I missed my dad more than ever as I went into the house , ahead of the others , and climbed the drab stairs to lie on my bed , looking out at the bright blue sky above the street . |
| 6 | Indeed , he had hardly referred to her except once as we passed through a small hamlet and had seen children baiting a poor , crazed woman by the crossroads . |
| 7 | You 'll be doing him a favour , she 'd thought , and so as he wandered past the kitchen on a mid-afternoon stroll she crept up behind him and grabbed him by the neck . |
| 8 | And especially as you say to be humorous . |
| 9 | He said I ca n't I 'm here on my own , he said get a cab and I 'll give you the money back , so anyway I rung Pauline 's husband up Steve and he said I 'll take you , I said to Steve I 've got ta get there for one o'clock cos I said I really do feel that if I do n't see him before he goes I ai n't gon na bloody see him , he was ever so good , he were here at twenty to one , got straight in the car put his foot down , went to the General and just as I got in the door Steve do n't worry about me parking , go , I 'll find you , just get in there , I ran through the bloody doors , ran up the stairs cos I knew |
| 10 | It is 2 ½ years since he lost in a world title match to Michael Spinks and just as he did after a similar fight , with Larry Holmes , he brooded for a long time , finally overcame problems with drugs , and went into business , part of which was as a fight promoter . |
| 11 | It is 2 ½ years since he lost in a world title match to Michael Spinks and just as he did after a similar fight , with Larry Holmes , he brooded for a long time , finally overcame problems with drugs , and went into business , part of which was as a fight promoter . |
| 12 | And just as you have in the past answered our call for money , so you are now ready to answer our call for people . |
| 13 | She gave him a rather languid finger wave and just as she disappeared under the wing float , he then realised she was only wearing a black sporran . |
| 14 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 15 | It was filled with rows and rows of towering bookcases that seemed to sway back and forth as they disappeared into the darkness at the top of the room . |
| 16 | Small 's nephew stood behind the firing squad and trained a searchlight back and forth as we hared across the fields . |
| 17 | Since a child 's ability to produce a particular sound will vary according to the speech context ( Ingram 1976 ) , the Goldman-Fristoe test samples speech sounds in three positions within words ( initial , medial and final ) and also as they occur in sentences . |
| 18 | And now as they descended on Geneva , she pressed her forehead against the pane of the oval window and breathed deeply . |
| 19 | She tried frantically to struggle , but his strength was far greater than hers , and even as she pushed against him she was overwhelmed by a far more desperate need to hold him , to feel his strong body pressed against hers once more . |
| 20 | The caravan , we 'd like , made sure that nothing happened cos we were renting it , and then as we went through a petrol station , on the way home |
| 21 | We drove down the Angel Bank skirting Ludlow , and then as we turned into Corvedale the sun came out and it cleared … |
| 22 | They considered the saleability of a washstand , a swinging mirror , a flowered pottery basin and jug , and then as they descended by the back stairs , the plates in dull red and dark blue and gold glaze that hung on the wall there and might , from the hieroglyphs on their backs , possibly be Chinese and perhaps valuable . |
| 23 | I turned round , half-expecting to hear a giggle , a rather inane giggle ; and then as I looked at the thick shadowy scrub near the gate , and remembered the grim reference to Prospero , a more sinister explanation came to me . |
| 24 | I put the branch two-handed over my right shoulder as I run up to them , jump over a small bush and then as I land at their side bring the branch swinging down . |
| 25 | Similarly , the course of improvement from infectious illnesses accompanied by fever has been commonly held to be intimately connected with sleeping , so that a fever typically " breaks " during the night , while the temperature reaches a maximal high , and then as it reverts to near-normal the patient falls into a deep restorative sleep . |
| 26 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |
| 27 | It was for Signora Kettering and her English upbringing told her that it was unthinkable to open letters addressed to someone else ; and yet as she came down the stairs and met the driver she had been taken , as she felt sure she was meant to be taken , for Signora Kettering . |
| 28 | These two had known each other for well over thirty years , meeting first at school and then finding their paths crossing again and again as they shifted with their respective jobs , till finally they had both come back permanently to the town they started from . |
| 29 | Her mouth sought his again and again as they broke for breath . |
| 30 | The word ‘ magical ’ crops up time and again as she talks about her work . |