Example sentences of "[adv prt] as [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun blazed down as we followed narrow paths through the ling . |
| 2 | Newman slowed down as he approached 495 Greenway Gardens , Wandsworth . |
| 3 | And if they really were the murderers , would they have been so foolish , after leaving Ayr and with Ross 's money in the car , to have picked up as they did two girls who had been stranded by their boy friends , and taken them to their homes in Kilmarnock ? |
| 4 | He glanced up as they completed this transaction to find the attention of the nearest two tables , both exclusively male , fixed disbelievingly on them . |
| 5 | He had watched the Rolls Royce pull up as he did most mornings . |
| 6 | It was a pity , that ; he would have liked to have heard her groan again , perhaps even to cry out as she had that night when The Man had played his games with her . |
| 7 | Only the 16th caught him out as he took three putts for his only bogey . |
| 8 | Water belched out as he drenched each tree , pouring the costly stuff into the deep trench which circled their trunks . |
| 9 | He 'd made it clear enough after all that he did n't expect her to hang about as he had another date . |
| 10 | ‘ He would verbalize his sadnesses , throw his arms about as he told elaborate stories concerning people who had upset him at the time , even when going into sad tales about people who were important to him . |