Example sentences of "and [adv] as [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll be doing him a favour , she 'd thought , and so as he wandered past the kitchen on a mid-afternoon stroll she crept up behind him and grabbed him by the neck . |
| 2 | And especially as you say to be humorous . |
| 3 | He said I ca n't I 'm here on my own , he said get a cab and I 'll give you the money back , so anyway I rung Pauline 's husband up Steve and he said I 'll take you , I said to Steve I 've got ta get there for one o'clock cos I said I really do feel that if I do n't see him before he goes I ai n't gon na bloody see him , he was ever so good , he were here at twenty to one , got straight in the car put his foot down , went to the General and just as I got in the door Steve do n't worry about me parking , go , I 'll find you , just get in there , I ran through the bloody doors , ran up the stairs cos I knew |
| 4 | It is 2 ½ years since he lost in a world title match to Michael Spinks and just as he did after a similar fight , with Larry Holmes , he brooded for a long time , finally overcame problems with drugs , and went into business , part of which was as a fight promoter . |
| 5 | It is 2 ½ years since he lost in a world title match to Michael Spinks and just as he did after a similar fight , with Larry Holmes , he brooded for a long time , finally overcame problems with drugs , and went into business , part of which was as a fight promoter . |
| 6 | And just as you have in the past answered our call for money , so you are now ready to answer our call for people . |
| 7 | She gave him a rather languid finger wave and just as she disappeared under the wing float , he then realised she was only wearing a black sporran . |
| 8 | It was filled with rows and rows of towering bookcases that seemed to sway back and forth as they disappeared into the darkness at the top of the room . |
| 9 | Small 's nephew stood behind the firing squad and trained a searchlight back and forth as we hared across the fields . |
| 10 | Since a child 's ability to produce a particular sound will vary according to the speech context ( Ingram 1976 ) , the Goldman-Fristoe test samples speech sounds in three positions within words ( initial , medial and final ) and also as they occur in sentences . |
| 11 | And now as they descended on Geneva , she pressed her forehead against the pane of the oval window and breathed deeply . |
| 12 | She tried frantically to struggle , but his strength was far greater than hers , and even as she pushed against him she was overwhelmed by a far more desperate need to hold him , to feel his strong body pressed against hers once more . |
| 13 | The caravan , we 'd like , made sure that nothing happened cos we were renting it , and then as we went through a petrol station , on the way home |
| 14 | We drove down the Angel Bank skirting Ludlow , and then as we turned into Corvedale the sun came out and it cleared … |
| 15 | They considered the saleability of a washstand , a swinging mirror , a flowered pottery basin and jug , and then as they descended by the back stairs , the plates in dull red and dark blue and gold glaze that hung on the wall there and might , from the hieroglyphs on their backs , possibly be Chinese and perhaps valuable . |
| 16 | I turned round , half-expecting to hear a giggle , a rather inane giggle ; and then as I looked at the thick shadowy scrub near the gate , and remembered the grim reference to Prospero , a more sinister explanation came to me . |
| 17 | I put the branch two-handed over my right shoulder as I run up to them , jump over a small bush and then as I land at their side bring the branch swinging down . |
| 18 | Similarly , the course of improvement from infectious illnesses accompanied by fever has been commonly held to be intimately connected with sleeping , so that a fever typically " breaks " during the night , while the temperature reaches a maximal high , and then as it reverts to near-normal the patient falls into a deep restorative sleep . |
| 19 | It was for Signora Kettering and her English upbringing told her that it was unthinkable to open letters addressed to someone else ; and yet as she came down the stairs and met the driver she had been taken , as she felt sure she was meant to be taken , for Signora Kettering . |
| 20 | These two had known each other for well over thirty years , meeting first at school and then finding their paths crossing again and again as they shifted with their respective jobs , till finally they had both come back permanently to the town they started from . |
| 21 | Her mouth sought his again and again as they broke for breath . |
| 22 | The word ‘ magical ’ crops up time and again as she talks about her work . |
| 23 | The word ‘ magical ’ crops up time and again as she talks about her work . |
| 24 | That first night , after the shock had begun to abate , the vision of Benedict 's snarling features , the sound of molten rage in his voice , had come back to her again and again as she lay in her narrow cot bed , and she had wept . |
| 25 | It was worth more than £1 to her to see the child 's face ; and again as she watched from beyond the crowd — for she waited a little once she got free of the press . |