Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] as [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now breathe in slowly as you did in Step 1 but gradually raise your arms overhead in time with the inhalation until the backs of your hands touch the floor . |
| 2 | ‘ Explained ? ’ he cut in ruthlessly as he struggled to his feet . |
| 3 | The driver looked on sentimentally as she alighted from the car and made her way down the path . |
| 4 | A voice that they had heard over and over again as they sat in Keith 's sitting-room . |
| 5 | And talking of cards , ’ she went on quickly as it registered with Fabia that if adding Cara 's name to hers on any card she sent home was n't lying , then she did n't know what was , ‘ you 'd better take a couple of my business cards . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps the most difficult skill for amateur performers to acquire , though , is the art of speaking to microphone at a constant voice level : most tend to start off strongly as they launch into their speeches , but gradually tail off as they reach the end . |
| 7 | This will build up obviously as we go through the course . |
| 8 | Probably be glad to get rid of her , she thought gloomily , then looked up sharply as someone rapped at the back door . |
| 9 | You know , that 's in the days when I was seventeen year old , I could go'n stick a fork into a truss weighing into eleven stone and pitch thet up high as you like with a fork , as high as I could reach . |
| 10 | Liverpool slip up again as they prepare for Portsmouth 's shooting and shouting in semi-final replay |
| 11 | Indeed , Opposition Members did nothing to clear up the uncertainties about the huge expenditure on which they would have to embark to renationalise these industries before messing them up again as they did in the 1970s when they were under national control . |
| 12 | The flow chart is not supposed to be rigid or to be adhered to at all costs ; more a source of guidance and reference and a way of keeping check on the different activities that go on simultaneously as you move towards that special day . |
| 13 | This was not a particularly difficult task since they were all pathetically trained and equipped and stood out conspicuously as they wandered around the countryside asking stupid and suspicious questions in foreign accents . |
| 14 | And er I used to go myself quite a lot er when there were well when there were more than one coming up I 've seen me go into , down in the pullman train from here to er , well we had about five changes I think , fat father had it all marked out so as you changed at a certain place . |
| 15 | The Americans do it much better having Thanksgiving to space it out so they only have a month of Christmas though they do seem to let their elections creep back just as we do with football … ’ |
| 16 | We had misty rain as we started out but the sun came out just as we got to the rapids . |
| 17 | I feel you should have maybe said , ‘ Yes , Eric , okay , that 's really relevant , ’ and then edited the comment out just as you did with the rest of my letter . |
| 18 | Unfortunately the jagged beams and stepped curves print out exactly as they appear on screen . |
| 19 | Gedanken called out cheerily as she arrived in the spacecraft . |
| 20 | This plan is still very easily picked out today as one walks about the streets of Bury . |
| 21 | Higher education , as we have seen , has the character of a conversation : the participants may have their own roles , but improvisation breaks out continually as they interact with each other . |
| 22 | Manager Alan Lockwood was forced to bring in a number of young faces and he could only look on agonisingly as they struggled against more experienced golfers in gusting winds . |
| 23 | Danny Kaye , Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland looked on blankly as he sifted through the books . |