Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] as [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of grinning Koreans from Kazakhstan craned their necks skywards as she spun like a top . |
| 2 | ‘ Pollensa ? ’ she croaked , punching out her floor and raising her eyes skywards as everyone did as the lift doors slid shut . |
| 3 | In fact , ‘ have a nice day ’ was originally coined as a deliberately longer and more personal message to have ringing in customers ' ears just as they walked off the premises , instead of the terminal ‘ bye ’ or ‘ see yah ’ , so they 'd come back . |
| 4 | A passport inside containing the photograph of Eila Karjalainen , a Finnish student who 'd disappeared a few months before as she hitchhiked through Oxfordshire . |
| 5 | Her skirt had ridden up and she clung to his shoulders convulsively as she yielded to the sweet torment of his long fingers stroking over her thighs . |
| 6 | Tears filled her eyes again as she thought of the little gravestone in the churchyard : In loving memory of William Richard France-Lynch , 1978–81 . |
| 7 | The sound of wheels turned in her ears again as she thought of Maman driving off to the railway station as if on some brisk pursuit . |
| 8 | Elsie had wept for kind Mrs Doran and for her husband , that strange , silent , sympathetic man , lifting his feet cautiously as he sidled across the polished floor . |
| 9 | She posed languidly before Silas , smoothing her hips provocatively as she spoke with coyness , ‘ Remember my old joddies , darling ? |
| 10 | Two days later as she sat on the beach , staring glumly out over the ocean , Laura knew that she could n't fool herself any longer . |
| 11 | The pose had thrust his hips sideways as he leant at a slight angle and his free hand was at the level of his pelvis , thumb hooked into the waistband of his jeans , fingers doubled into a loose fist at the top of his hard , powerful thigh . |
| 12 | They remembered this two hours later as they stood on the meadow in front of the big house at Fortingall , waiting for a crowd to gather . |
| 13 | This was such a beautiful city , Merrill thought a couple of hours later as she paid for her coffee and left the pavement café . |
| 14 | And so this is how it ends , she thought minutes later as she walked with steady steps across the wooden planks . |
| 15 | Ten minutes later as she sat in the Ladies ' cloakroom , smelling-salts to her nose , Sophie joined her . |
| 16 | They looked at the same things together as they walked through the ruins of Milan . |
| 17 | PRESIDENT-elect Bill Clinton kept a careful distance from world problems yesterday as he worked with aides to plan the administration that will take over the world 's most powerful country when he takes the oath of office on January 20 . |
| 18 | SINGER Jason Donovan and girl-friend Tara Owens had a mixed bag of memories yesterday as they returned to Britain from a romantic holiday on the island of Bali . |
| 19 | The US is hardly lily white in the battle over chip imports into Japan , and Japanese chip users say that their US suppliers have been cancelling deliveries in favour of US customers even as they complain about the difficulty of penetrating the market , according to Electronic Industries Association of Japan . |
| 20 | And on these gravelly soils , the Semillon flourishes just as it does in Bordeaux . |
| 21 | From there she would stare hour after hour through the branches of the trees above as they swayed against the ever-changing sky , as if she was waiting to catch a glimpse of something precious she had lost a lifetime before . |
| 22 | MICHAEL STICH exploded a warning shot over his Wimbledon rivals yesterday as he stormed to a crushing victory in the Stella Artois Championships at Queen 's Club . |
| 23 | erm it may be that erm because of my generation , but you do n't get the same sort of personalities nowadays as you did in those days , erm Mr for instance he was , he was a most benign sort of erm fellow of what one would describe as a real gentleman mm , mind you he used to have his paddies at times but |
| 24 | ‘ The general public has a deepseated distrust of science and technology , and insists on ‘ civilian control ’ of science and scientists just as it insists on civilian control of the military ’ . |
| 25 | CAMERA-shy ministers avoided photographers yesterday as they gathered for a crucial Cabinet meeting to thrash out the Government 's public spending plans for the coming financial year . |
| 26 | The aim of the project was to examine various aspects of the functioning of financial markets especially as they related to the personal sector . |
| 27 | It is here irrelevant to decide whether the Roman generals learnt how to cry from their Hellenistic opposite numbers just as they learnt from them how to write autobiographical letters on their victories . |
| 28 | At Reading road in Shiplake , the A four one five five , there are some temporary traffic lights there holding er the , your journey up this evening , for road realignment work and er there are some delays there as I say at the moment . |
| 29 | United then began to pile men forward as they had to , Simpson causing problems down the left , Phillips again in mid-field winning a lot of ball , but of course United leaving a few gaps at the back , and just before the finish , four minutes before the finish , that man Gascoigne put the game beyond United 's reach , giving Spurs a four two victory . |
| 30 | If the borrower of bank A uses the overdraft to pay people who bank with banks B , C , etc. then the increase in the money supply appears in their deposits just as it did in the single bank case . |