Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central figure is the child , Little Nell , who deeply engaged the sympathies of contemporary readers as they followed her through the hardships of her pilgrimage , made in company with the senile grandfather whom she strives to protect , from the London curiosity shop to the sanctuary of a village where her sufferings end in a peaceful death . |
| 2 | He was dressed in a wide-sleeved ceremonial gown of dark silk and a soft hat embroidered with coloured threads partly hid his face from Lan and her brothers as they followed him through the doorway , walking barefoot between their father and mother . |
| 3 | Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd . |
| 4 | Then she heard all of them , crashing through brush and low branches as they followed her towards the road . |
| 5 | Later Fernando grazed the moisture from her brow with his lips as he gathered her into his arms once again . |
| 6 | For her flaming tresses — burning like Isabel 's on her son 's sweet lips as he drew them through his fingers , drowned in them … |
| 7 | Theodora watched as the woman whose voice would carry across a couple of ten-acre fields , and who could bring a rowdy committee to heel by clearing her throat , murmuring intimately into the mare 's ear and made little clucking noises as she plied her with carrots . |
| 8 | Her hands fumbled with the bunch of keys as she let herself into her own flat again . |
| 9 | He slipped his gloves into his pockets as he followed her over the threshold and she shut the door . |
| 10 | The carpet sucked the soles of our shoes as we followed him through a drunken , grasping audience towards a small dressing room to the left of the stage , upon which Tanya was enjoying bananas for dessert . |
| 11 | ‘ If you 've got a pen I 'll read the directions as they gave them to the family . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ YO , this is Dalek exercises , mon ! ’ booms Derrick Evans , his skin-tight leotard stretching in impossible directions as he throws himself around the GMTV studio . |
| 13 | It squeaked and jingled on its hinges as they swung it behind them . |
| 14 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 15 | 3pm : IRN feeds broadcast ‘ down the line ’ to local radio stations as they record it for their own broadcasts . |
| 16 | Lindsey felt the faint colour tinge her cheeks as she helped herself to coffee she did n't really want . |
| 17 | In a pilot experiment subjects attempted to describe films as they watched them in the way described by Hughes and Cole . |
| 18 | I also think it 's a question of being able to provide , certainly at the top of a company , a sense of direction and I find it hard to see how you can have an absolutely clear sense of direction unless you yourself are able to assess the essentials as you see them for success in your particular trade . |
| 19 | I remember once thinking my mother was stark raving bonkers as she regaled me with a tale of the time she scrimped for six months to buy a pair of elbow length , white kid evening gloves , which set her back the equivalent of two weeks ' wages . |
| 20 | They awoke in each other 's arms as usual , but when Damian made love to her there was an edge to it , an urgency that frazzled her , made her pleasure sharply intense , pain mingling with her cries as he took her with him into the dark , hot void they shared . |
| 21 | If you invite only three or four , the conversation may become general , and you are likely to be left out , so be bold : invite twenty people , then you can move around , making contact with individuals as you ply them with food and drink , or sit with one person for a short chat before moving on to another . |
| 22 | I give them lollipops , so they perform enthusiastically , showing us the speed of their boats as they skiff them through the water and how many stones they can carry before sinking . |
| 23 | It was a royal monopoly , and an earlier King Arkesilas is depicted on a Spartan vase of the mid-sixth century supervising his officials as they weighed it on a man-size balance ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate vi . |
| 24 | The iron smell of Danjit 's sweat solidified in her nostrils as he straddled her from behind , one hand wrenching her jaw up , his vibro-blade cherishing the soft skin of her throat . |
| 25 | Leonora digested this peace of news with mixed feelings as he set her on her feet . |
| 26 | A porter opened the double-barred gate , shouting a welcome to the Santerres as he led us along the old causeway which wound past birch , oak and yew trees up to the front of the house . |
| 27 | Turning now very briefly to the H One D the Greater York issue , clearly the comments I 've made about the calculations for York have a knock on effect for our position on Greater York , the Greater York figures as I understand it from the County Council are based on a one hundred percent migration assumption , if the technical difference between us er we are right then we believe clearly the Greater York figure should be increased by an appropriate amount , and the we 've suggested the increased cut should be seven hundred er relating to the city itself I ca n't calculate with any great accuracy what the figure for the surrounding parts of Greater York might be , but it would be we suspect only another one to two hundred more on top of that , therefore that underst explains the reason why the City Council suggests that the Greater York should be increased to the ten four figure from the nine seven . |
| 28 | What are the problems as you see them in this neighbourhood ? |
| 29 | Enjoy the wealth and infinite variety of these mechanical wonders as they guide you through our world of music . |
| 30 | We perceive things as we know them to be , not necessarily as they are . |