Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The significance of this should become more clear to you as you read this chapter and you become familiar with the ‘ Homoeopathic ’ view of the world and its ills .
2 Affection , melancholy , and other emotions that eluded classification , surged and slopped inside her as she noted each detail as if for the first time — or as if for the last .
3 He was studying her as he performed this action .
4 She smiled at him as she poured boiling water into his cup and stirred his cocoa into a miniature whirlpool with a spoon .
5 Atherton went in the eighth , lbw to one which Waqar whipped back at him as he played some way forward .
6 A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away .
7 She heard a car go up the road and then still heard it as it travelled some way along the road at the top , and realised the wind must be coming from the south for the sound to come to her so distinctly .
8 Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks .
9 Well , that was me as I toured Central Park , Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building .
10 ‘ It was all the same and Emily watched me as I poured each cup .
11 I persuaded our Chairman , Hilary Weedon , to come with me as she speaks fluent German and I am keen that this contact shall continue into younger generations .
12 We talk to hoteliers and developers on a day to day basis , we work with them as they make long term plans .
13 She sensed a strained explosive atmosphere between them as they exchanged small talk .
14 She drank with them as they pledged each other .
15 To prevent water getting into the sand and spoiling the bed , you could leave open joints , and point them as you do crazy paving .
16 Gav and my Aunt Janice got on like a house on fire , a combined location and fate I occasionally wished on them as I lay awake listening to the sounds of their love-making , a pastime I sometimes suspected I shared with people in a large part of the surrounding community , not to say northern Europe .
17 The one thing that seems to be identified by members of the public er when they come here and address present erm petitions to us as they did this morning er they want in most parts , in Hertfordshire .
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