Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While al most all the routines work very fast indeed the Circle is amazingly slow , any suggestions as to why would be gladly received as there seems to be no obvious answer . |
| 2 | A crumb of chocolate stuck to her lip , where Coffin watched it slowly melt as he spoke to her . |
| 3 | The government responded to this pressure : the Bill differed in some respects from the White Paper , and the Bill itself was constantly amended as it went through Parliament . |
| 4 | In fact , that was only done as I walked through the door . |
| 5 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 6 | Positioned some 30 yards from goal , the former Liverpool star unleashed an incredible thunderbolt which the bemused Hitchcock could only watch as it speared into the top corner . |
| 7 | The amount of discretion relative to the amount of prescribed action only increases as one moves to higher occupational strata , thus allowing the enlargement and fulfilment of personal needs . |
| 8 | They merely moult as they increase in size . |
| 9 | His eyes suddenly narrowed as he looked at her , and there was a silence charged with meaning between the two of them . |
| 10 | ‘ So Ryan 's stuck with a piece of land he ca n't develop and can only sell as it stands at market value ? ’ she asked , beginning to enjoy the irony of it . |
| 11 | Unfortunately though , Roebuck 's support was soon withdrawn as he got into financial difficulties and eventually was declared bankrupt in 1773 . |
| 12 | There are other good vignettes of people telephoning each other to say goodbye , huddling in corner stores and generally acting as they do in scary SF movies . |
| 13 | Now if I can just refer as I did in my earlier submission to the possible results of that , I suggested that the requirement for the new settlement to be located beyond the outer boundary of the green er York greenbelt , should be rolled into criterion one , the need to avoid the greenbelt . |
| 14 | The justification for using a hierarchy is mathematical , and has to do with the way in which the total variability of a collection is successively reduced as one passes from higher to lower levels in the hierarchy . |
| 15 | Peripheral awareness becomes progressively blurred as it recedes from the foveal zone and adjusts to an overall equilibrium . |
| 16 | Paul 's promise of variety was soon fulfilled as we turned off the ridge and headed into a forest of fir trees . |
| 17 | Leisure is no longer defined as something earned by work ; work , rather , is to be made available by leisure . |
| 18 | Dusk was just falling as they turned into the parking area down by the river . |
| 19 | Expert in controlling his tone , he scarcely hesitated as he passed over the customary nickname , for Hector Luath would be swift no longer . |
| 20 | For a short time she stood still and silent , scarcely breathing as she revelled in the novelty of his tenderness , but presently her body started stirring in response to the warmth of his mouth , a new sweetness to her desire . |
| 21 | It gave him a good feeling , it was satisfying , just to think as he walked up the stairs , those floors are mine , this carved wood , these moulded ceilings . |
| 22 | ‘ All right , all right , ’ she quickly agreed as it dawned on her that if he was who she thought he was then she was going about it completely the wrong way if she hoped for an interview . |
| 23 | And then he wondered why it was that he had n't heard that satisfying little clunk the coin usually made as it dropped inside the machine . |
| 24 | He was still shouting as they walked past the barbed wire and the concrete blocks down to the waterline . |
| 25 | The floor tiles were cold but she hardly noticed as she tiptoed to the door and looked into the kitchen . |
| 26 | She pocketed the Beretta , her hands still trembling as she thought of how close she had come to firing on the turn . |
| 27 | For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen . |
| 28 | Moran stood erect and apart on the platform , totally separate as he gazed at the hill across the tracks where the stationmaster 's brown horse and a few cattle and sheep grazed . |
| 29 | Daylight was quickly fading as they walked up the street to the nurse 's house . |
| 30 | Carlson felt more reassured as they arrived at the hoverport . |