Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He came in and sat next to Juliet , watching her as she checked fluid-balance sheets .
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 With a despairing groan she rocked forward in the chair , hugging a cushion to her as she relived those moments in his arms .
4 He was studying her as he performed this action .
5 She smiled at him as she poured boiling water into his cup and stirred his cocoa into a miniature whirlpool with a spoon .
6 Atherton went in the eighth , lbw to one which Waqar whipped back at him as he played some way forward .
7 He admired him as he admired all carers .
8 A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Well , that was me as I toured Central Park , Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building .
12 ‘ It was all the same and Emily watched me as I poured each cup .
13 A third man joined them as they sought new sticks .
14 She sensed a strained explosive atmosphere between them as they exchanged small talk .
15 She drank with them as they pledged each other .
16 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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