Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [art] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were trapped as the blaze broke out at the house in Farnborough Close , Matchborough , near Redditch , Hereford and Worcester , just before midnight . |
| 2 | They drove through the brightly lit city streets of Tsimshatsui , and it was like hurtling back to earth through the atmosphere ; Rachel felt she was being shaken till her teeth rattled as the car sped up through the cross-harbour tunnel into Causeway Bay , past the bobbing sampans and the escort clubs , speeding towards Central District along the harbour road , traffic everywhere , horns blasting in her ears … |
| 3 | Cambridge were difficult to play against and Middlesbrough 's style suffered as the game wore on . |
| 4 | By working the hard material between one 's fingers , the transition from glass to rubber will be felt as the sample warms up . |
| 5 | Goes in high towards Collimore who turns to the referee and claims that he was pushed as the corner came over . |
| 6 | The divergence was sharpened by the application of a theoretical distinction , the fruit of Augustinian theology , amplified as the century went on by canon and Roman law reference ; princes pronounced their campaigns just wars ( fought against aggressors with the aim of re-establishing peace ) or public wars ( declared by a competent authority in the public interest ) , while they condemned the wars of lesser men as infractions of the peace . |
| 7 | Their cheeks were blanched and drawn as the party set out in the driving rain , armed with ropes and fresh lanterns . |
| 8 | Talk in the Red Lion became increasingly spirited as the season wore on , and the rumours passed from farm cottage to town hovel . |
| 9 | My parting thought as the lid went on was what object might we both have known . |
| 10 | They threatened on a couple of occasions , but their work became increasingly ragged as the game wore on . |
| 11 | It becomes more concentrated as the day wears on , and by the time it reaches peak levels , in the late afternoon , the polluted air will usually have drifted away from the cities into the countryside . |
| 12 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 13 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 14 | Curtains would be closed , arm bands worn , and hats removed as the hearse passed by . |
| 15 | However , it is wise to treat the area with fungicide as a precaution against any subsequent outbreak of dry rot which could be encouraged as the construction dries out . |
| 16 | The streets of Pontydd were deserted as the pageant rolled through . |
| 17 | Sports Editors fretted and printers fumed as the match went on and on into the British night , with Milligan winning the 17th by chipping in , to go to all square . |
| 18 | He eventually fell , seven short of a century , ‘ gated ’ by the offspinner after being stuck fast for 25 minutes , but Dermot Reeve , in his first Test , and watched by his mother Monica , who had flown halfway around the world to see him play , and Lewis , who unfurled drives and cuts of genuine quality , ensured progress was maintained as the weather closed in . |
| 19 | The principal aim of the research is to collect information about how the use of donor insemination to solve childlessness affects the members of the family so created as the child grows up . |
| 20 | Trollope wrote The Barchester Chronicles during journeys ; on a trip from Moscow to Paris , Stravinsky sketched The Rite of Spring ; Cyril Connolly 's The Unquiet Grave was conceived as the author gazed out of a carriage window . |
| 21 | Not a sound , ’ the old man warned as the boy climbed out of bed and quickly dressed . |
| 22 | ‘ At Kelso … ’ the fellow slurred , then suddenly he went rigid , chest out , face forward , and I watched fascinated as the blood gurgled out of his mouth like water from an overflowing sewer : his eyes rolled in their sockets , his tongue came out as if he wished to talk , then he collapsed , choking on his own blood , on to the shit-strewn cobbles . |
| 23 | The euphoria of Donna 's phone call slowly evaporated as the evening went on . |
| 24 | In nearby Sumatra , the Batak men went as far as deliberately slicing open their penises and inserting pieces of stone , which became firmly embedded as the wound closed over . |
| 25 | Those are only acquired as the baby grows up and travels through life . |