Example sentences of "as the [noun] [verb] at [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the water ripped at his thighs he turned and staggered backwards , using his stronger right leg as a brace against the frightening force of the water . |
| 2 | She had set her mind to it , and it would certainly be accomplished ; but in that winter dusk , as the rain fretted at her window , as she recalled the innocence of the child who had once sung alone in the house where her grandfather had done such wrong , Louisa Anne Agnew , already twenty-seven years old , wondered whether her life had yet properly begun at all . |
| 3 | As the lift stopped at our floor Ira Dilworth gave me a dark look , admonishing my temerity . |
| 4 | Sail trim is n't simply a question of pulling everything in and forgetting about it as the sail works at its maximum at any one angle to the wind . |
| 5 | But as the priest stood at his study window , fingers joined in thanksgiving to the night sky for his release from the bitter-sweet torture of reliving what was dead and gone , his mind quailed before his new dilemma . |
| 6 | She smiled at him , and the others , and as the waiter appeared at her side with her coffee she was amused to see the speed at which twenty men were on their feet offering her a chair . |
| 7 | Belinda saw the gesture , winced inwardly as the image stabbed at her feelings , and despised herself for wasting her emotions in this way . |