Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She winced painfully as a burning sensation spread across her cheek , and jerked her hand away from her face . |
| 2 | QUAYLE Munro , the small Edinburgh merchant bank , is set to become a quoted company following what it described yesterday as a reverse takeover by East of Scotland Industrial Investments , the unquoted investment group managed by the bank , writes BILL MILLAR . |
| 3 | Of these compounds , special attention has been given to chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , especially CFCl 3 ( CFC 11 ) used mainly as a propellant in aerosol sprays , and CF 2 Cl 2 , ( CFC 12 ) used extensively as a cooling agent in refrigerators and air conditioners ( figure 6.2 ) . |
| 4 | Thus the Mig-25 , designed originally as a high altitude interceptor of the B-70 , found itself adapted , upon the demise of the B-70 programme , for high speed reconnaissance and air defence . |
| 5 | I want them here by two at the latest — ’ Philpott stopped abruptly as a crushing pain seared through his chest , radiating out to his neck , jaw and arms . |
| 6 | She remembers Guildford with affection — since she trained there as a young actress in the 1950s . |
| 7 | Every coherent thought fled abruptly as a tall figure appeared round the side of the building . |
| 8 | NPFL gunners attacked just as a Nigerian air force Okada aircraft was about to land with 100 peacekeeping troops on board , reinforcements for the 9,000-strong Nigerian-led Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) . |
| 9 | Rohan 's brows lifted appreciatively as a creamy liquid was ladled into his bowl . |
| 10 | 1910 is the year in which the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , came together as a conscious group , although many of them had known each other earlier . |
| 11 | I came here as a Chilean refugee . |
| 12 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 13 | This had been substantially rewritten since publication of the first draft in February [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , some of the revisions reflecting conservative criticism of the party leadership , but as delivered by Gorbachev it still came across as a spirited defence of his perestroika reform policies . |
| 14 | Leading a band of forty-five lodges up the Valley of Winding Waters in the summer of 1875 , Joseph found two companies of cavalry under Captain Whipple stationed there as a peace-keeping force . |
| 15 | With his fair hair , the stubble on his chin showed only as a slight blurring of the normally sharp jawline , but the rest of his face was a bruise of tiredness and strain . |
| 16 | For many years the official view of the position of the police in liberal democracies like Britain was that it acted merely as an administrative agent to enforce the law . |
| 17 | Even the daylong scream of the gulls was silent in here , and the hooters and sound signals arrived only as a distant complaint . |
| 18 | Over the next few centuries it shifted from one to the other of the latter two until , with the establishment in the tenth and eleventh centuries of an ‘ English ’ monarchy , it served only as a minor shire , more quoted in tax returns than in high politics before the advent of the Normans . |
| 19 | But , despite the fact that it has capitalised on an unproven reputation ever since , it was not so much health which eventually transformed Brighton as royal patronage and high fashion in which the exercises of the spa served largely as a formal excuse for other , equally demanding , pleasures . |
| 20 | Sniper bullets whizzed overhead as a British army chaplain Carson Nicholson buried seven Croats in grey blankets next to the twin-towered monastery in Guca Gora . |
| 21 | They served simply as an ideological cloak behind which a vast party and police bureaucracy and an immensely authoritarian state machine were created . |
| 22 | Hangleton and many other villages survived only as a single house or two into the next century . |
| 23 | Gazing into eyes that were suddenly like warm velvet , she swallowed drily as an unbearable excitement flooded her . |
| 24 | The project was sold twice more before it finally flew again as a modified two-seater , as N9837A . |
| 25 | She shrank inwards as an icy blast of air enveloped her . |
| 26 | Yeah I was gon na say , she went away as a little kid |
| 27 | The SPD believed that Adenauer should have taken up opportunities for talks with the Soviets , particularly Stalin 's March 1952 proposal for a reunited but neutral Germany ( which the Western powers saw simply as a Russian bid to prevent German rearmament ) . |
| 28 | Oh I w I went there as a young girl . |
| 29 | He was so dark that he must have to shave two or three times a day , she thought inconsequentially as a lingering trace of aftershave came to her nostrils . |
| 30 | Born in India , brought up mainly in France and speaking both French and German perfectly , he thought seriously as a young man of entering Habsburg service and married an American , while his brother took a Russian wife , one of the Nelidov family which was prominent in tsarist diplomacy . |