Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] as [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy , all this time , was still sitting on the verandah surrounded by her cartridge-making tools and weeping bitterly as she looked at the neat rows of cartridges she had made and which were no longer needed . |
| 2 | The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation . |
| 3 | On her office desk sits a picture of mother and daughter laughing together as they stroll through the Lake District . |
| 4 | The gleam of insulating oil shone bright on the prominences of his face , dimming and brightening again as she moved past him to hunker down at his side . |
| 5 | At last a lone figure staggered out , singing raucously as he swaggered in a drunken stupor . |
| 6 | Harry brooded , frowning terribly as he toyed with his knife . |
| 7 | Ben was grinning now as he looked at Millie , saying , ‘ Perhaps they 're goin' to adopt you . ’ |
| 8 | An old gent stopped in his tracks and raised his face to the sky , listening intently as he leaned on his walking stick . |
| 9 | The castle dogs crept closer to the flames also , snapping lazily as they squabbled for their accustomed places near the warmth . |
| 10 | She was shivering uncontrollably as she walked to her cabin . |
| 11 | HERO pilot Dane Crosby coolly saved the crew of his rescue helicopter from drowning yesterday as he ditched in raging seas . |
| 12 | Carrie 's heart was pumping furiously as she dashed through the kitchen to the front door . |
| 13 | Winged shapes , clattering eerily as they swerved through the air , were descending towards them . |
| 14 | Thessy , squatting nearby as he waited for his father 's permission to join the conversation , looked up as a twin-engined plane howled low overhead . |
| 15 | In his analysis of the popular culture which appeared among the promoters of the Pro-Life Campaign , set up to achieve a constitutional ban on abortion in the Republic in 1983 , O'Carroll pin-points certain characteristics , which can be abbreviated here : a monolithic and absolute view of the world , with its accompanying intolerance , derived in part from the direct consultation of clerics and politicians on public moral issues and the subsequent failure to develop an ethos of public debate ; a localized belief system , rooted in family and communal authority and issuing in a spirit of absolute conformity ; sexual prudery , a product partly of the inheritance problem ; and the development of acute anxiety when such beliefs — inhering partly as they do in their practice and shaping of society — are threatened . |
| 16 | His lips were moving quietly as he mouthed to himself what he would do if ever he had Corbett in his power . |
| 17 | He looked out into the roadway without seeing the rain beating mercilessly against the cobbled surface or the leaves of the trees dripping constantly as they shivered in the breeze , he was seeing the four walls of his cell and remembering his feeling of helplessness as the door slammed shut behind him . |
| 18 | A few girls were dancing together as they did at the youth club hops and the dancing was of the proper ‘ ballroom variety ’ — waltzes , quicksteps and foxtrots . |
| 19 | Both played superbly , clinching the Australians £20,000 of the £25,000 prize money on offer from Texaco and doing almost as they liked with the England bowlers in a perfectly-timed run chase . |
| 20 | She shook her head slowly , her eyes closing again as he bent towards her and covered her lips with his own . |
| 21 | As a result , a number of employing organisations have already agreed to put their names to the document as users or intending users of the groupings , and more employers were coming forward as we went to press . |
| 22 | ‘ She was vile , ’ said Comfort , recovering fast as she took in the impertinence of anyone 's venturing to question her expenditure or appearance . |
| 23 | She finally found her voice , screaming as she bolted from the hideous life-form that was shaping even as she watched into the form , the outward appearance of a dead human . |
| 24 | Lisa 's heart was thumping strangely as he reached for his coat and quickly slipped it on . |
| 25 | It was raining hard as we drove across Edinburgh to C & R Agencies , another important account . |
| 26 | Then the hard body overpowered her completely , thrusting into her , hands biting into her hips as she sprawled beneath him , her mouth slack and her eyes dazed , and as he looked down and saw the expression on her face he began to groan louder with pleasure , whispering incoherent words in a ragged , dehumanised voice , devastating her with the absolute possession he took , sliding his hands under her rear , his face contorting barbarically as he went into a violent climax in a series of deep , fast thrusts and jerked against her with a fierce cry , his body shaking as with the spontaneous release of an electric current . |
| 27 | Long after Sarella felt they should have been slowing to cross the drawbridge into the courtyard of Castell Rocamar , they went on , the engine purring gently as they continued into the heart of the mountains . |
| 28 | She glared at him fiercely , her breasts rising and falling rapidly as she struggled for breath . |
| 29 | Nor was Doreen slow to realise her mistake , her jaw sagging slightly as she said in a contrite tone , ‘ Yes — yes , of course . |
| 30 | A bit of activity out on the water catches my attention next and I bring the ‘ scope out ; it is a small party of long-tailed duck in their handsome winter plumage , the long tail-streamers of the drakes showing clearly as they display to the females . |