Example sentences of "as [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They nearly blew it at the start of the second half too as Brighton closed in for the kill . |
| 2 | Ethel bounced ahead , crashing joyfully through the russet bracken , then splashing and rolling in the stream , spooking as ponies loomed out of the dusk . |
| 3 | Downes almost snarled his reluctant ‘ Yes ’ ; and listened , mouth agape with incredulity , as Morse beckoned over to the two detective-constables from the second police car . |
| 4 | Jimmy was able to stand unassisted now as Cardiff turned back to the girl . |
| 5 | As scouts sent out by the locals to reconnoitre the otherwise mysterious life-styles of the newcomers such people are terribly influential in defining the image of the newcomers among the locals — ; and of the locals among the newcomers-Gossip which is reported back easily becomes magnified in order to contribute further to the stereotypes . |
| 6 | He was already advancing up the truck as Ward slithered down onto the flat surface of it . |
| 7 | Butterflies as big as birds fell down from the branches , wings flopping limply . |
| 8 | As Lane points out for the Soviet Union : ‘ However much control they have over Soviet production enterprises , managers and administrators can neither dispose of their assets for their private good , nor can their children have any exclusive rights to nationalised property ’ ( Lane 1982 , p. 135 ) . |
| 9 | As crowds headed back into the West End after a 1,000lb IRA bomb was defused , the Met 's Commissioner-in-waiting Paul Condon said normal daily life must go on . |
| 10 | The two of them looked at it , as blood dripped down on the cold linoleum . |
| 11 | And then one evening I rang the bell and then I noticed the lock was up , so I pushed the door open and looked up the stairs , at the same time as Toinette looked down round the door . |
| 12 | As Ellen scurried out of the room like a frightened mouse , Ruth sat down again . |
| 13 | Madge held the folds of material away as Therese climbed down from the stage . |
| 14 | As Richard stood up in the boat , he could be seen to hesitate , not about what he wanted to do , but about procedures . |
| 15 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 16 | As Penny went over to the drinks table the headmaster was in full spate . |
| 17 | At last , at dinner one evening , the conversations and laughter died away raggedly as Duart stood up at the high table and raised his hand . |
| 18 | Despite the valiant cries of ‘ We are the Bencey Boys ’ from the faithful few , we were subjected to jeers from the Alborne crowd as fighting broke out between the Athletico players on their way back to the dressing room . |
| 19 | The police were called in as fighting broke out in the crowd between the rival sets of supporters . |
| 20 | But as Orton pointed out in the diary , as usual nothing came of it — not even after telling a man who tried to get in their way to ‘ piss off ’ . |
| 21 | Below , a door opened and there was a brief swell in the volume of conversation and laughter as Gerard stepped out into the hall . |
| 22 | As laughter rang out in the room , she nodded towards the band-leader and swung into her next song , a loud gutsy number far removed from the bittersweet love song she 'd opened the set with . |
| 23 | But as Ruth came out of the basement , all she was struck by , quite irrelevantly , was his likeness to Jake ; for an instant she almost thought it was Jake , standing there . |
| 24 | He grins defiantly as Eva sweeps in through the door . |
| 25 | The girl looked up as Ebert came back into the hold , her eyes wide , filled with fear . |
| 26 | It reached a peak as miners surged in against the riot shields . |
| 27 | As dialogue continues down on the floor the Inlay Operator prepares for the first of his ‘ big moments ’ ; the establishing shot of the city as seen by the time-travellers . |
| 28 | Just the kind of remarks one would hear as parents come out of the display of their children at annual ballet school spectacular . |
| 29 | As Hrun bore down on the dragonlord Liartes ' sword came up wickedly , to be caught on the branch . |
| 30 | He watched as Turakina caught up with the pig and rode over it . |