Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] as [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For each factor , the results of the survey are presented firstly as they apply to Solihull secondary teachers as a whole . |
| 2 | She was jerked forward as he slammed on the brakes and brought the car skidding to a halt on the gravel in front of the steps . |
| 3 | Voices were raised outside as he progressed through the crowd , but he told everyone to ‘ move on ’ and ‘ go home ’ , instructions which , of course , were ignored . |
| 4 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 5 | A BRITISH solicitor wanted in the United States for alleged conspiracy to sell stolen British Treasury bills was arrested yesterday as he arrived in Cyprus . |
| 6 | The long-time front runners have now gone four games without a goal , and their misery was prolonged yesterday as they missed from the penalty spot . |
| 7 | References are numbered sequentially as they appear in the text , followed by those in tables and finally by those in figure legends . |
| 8 | In Wilson 's first defeat by a British competitor over this distance for 2½ years the two swam neck and neck for just over half the race before Akers suddenly pulled ahead as he searched for an Olympic qualifying time . |
| 9 | One that had gone even as he groped for it . |
| 10 | Her heart cramped now as she thought of her husband 's folly in plumping for the easy money , as it had seemed , after three bad harvests — his airy promise to come home soon — his failure to return after his regiment had been disbanded in Madras and left to make its own way back round half the world . |
| 11 | The immediate sense-experiences with which his method begins are not part of a systematic record , and are very quickly left behind as one digs below their surface . |
| 12 | PROVINCIAL LIFE as such is now left behind as we turn to various types of connections between it and the political and cultural centres of Russia . |
| 13 | We dropped the others off , and now the big shops would be left behind as we waded through the gloomy streets of Fulham . |
| 14 | However , the issue is discussed here as it does to a certain extent relate to customer and supplier contracts that are being assigned . |
| 15 | All thoughts of where they were and what was happening fled abruptly as she stared at him with a shock that soon turned to joy as she saw the expression on his face . |
| 16 | Stitch 's nose had twitched eagerly as he took in the size of the Imperial . |
| 17 | Damon Hill 's challenge in his first race with the Williams team also ended early as he collided with Italian Alessandro Zanardi in a Lotus after 16 laps . |
| 18 | Ligier team-mate Martin Brundle 's had a luckless 100th grand prix and was forced to retire and Damon Hill 's challenge in his first race with Williams also ended early as he collided with Italian Alessandro Zanardi in a Lotus after 16 laps . |
| 19 | There are an awful lot of masses arising , probably most of this will be covered again as we go through the other items on the agenda . |
| 20 | Privacy was not a word in our vocabulary , and postcards and diaries were mercilessly read aloud as we trekked through the jungle of North Borneo . |
| 21 | He was held yesterday as he drove to a villa in Longara , northern Italy . |