Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The London-Glasgow train was packed to capacity as I struggled aboard and managed to find a small space opposite the toilet ; the corridor and compartments being jampacked with a seething mass of Service people . |
| 2 | I get the ridiculous idea that as long as I walk normally and do n't start running , he will wait there , to see what I do . |
| 3 | Martinho was , as I learned later and surmised then , himself vulnerable — he had his uses , and therefore power and influence , but as soon as he became dispensable he 'd reap the consequences of any ill-considered actions , such as this . |
| 4 | Torrents of Spanish as I backed away and pulled out into the traffic . |
| 5 | As I turned away and headed back the way I had come I passed two dead cows lying on the grass , large shrapnel wounds on their bodies . |
| 6 | As I sat there and sipped my Valdepeñas I observed the ladies in their flounced festival attire , plying elegant fans , escorted by dignified caballeros wearing black sombreros . |
| 7 | She came in to me as I knelt there and raised me up , and said we must never quarrel and that she would never , ever , give me cause to doubt her , and I must not suppose she could . |
| 8 | The greenbelt boundary as I mentioned earlier as proposed by the County Council is very tightly drawn , excluding the sites which have been mentioned which our allocated , there is no land between the edge of the urban area and the proposed greenbelt boundary and that does seem to us , continues to seem to us er not an appropriate way forward . |
| 9 | They believe that it is possible for man , and that it is indeed his highest intellectual and emotional task , to survey his own being , to call into the forefront of his mind every attitude and habit of mind , of emotion , of passion and feeling , to penetrate down beneath these superficial layers , to deeper and deeper and ever more tranquil , untroubled generalized forms of the self , until eventually you come within sight of some inner absolutely undisturbed pool which every person has within himself , and which if he finds it removes him finally from the distracting passions of ordinary life , and with this rider , that in proportion as you get there and find this thing , this true self within yourself , you find that it is n't just something subjective and peculiar to you , it is something identical with the world , so that in solving your own problems in one sense , you do it by transcending your ordinary nature . |
| 10 | As you eat better and become slimmer you will automatically find activity more enjoyable . |
| 11 | Slide diagonally forwards as you do so and twist your hips so that your centre-line faces the opponent . |
| 12 | The first one will keep the rope taut as you move offstage and run round the back and take over from the second helper who has been keeping the ‘ load ’ end taut . |
| 13 | But it was n't her , she realized , as she stepped nearer and faltered . |
| 14 | He picked up her blanket , spread it over her trembling body , his long fingers brushing her naked throat as she quivered angrily and snatched at the blanket , glaring at him . |
| 15 | As she knocked twice and opened the door of the shed , Mungo could see what he took to be a workshop . |
| 16 | Jo heard Selwyn enunciating the words ‘ deep , deep shit , ’ from behind the double doors as she came downstairs and hurried towards the dining room to avoid her father , who was bound to complain about the embroidered blouse and her old white overalls . |
| 17 | She reached the busy Jamaica Road and suddenly felt depressed as she hurried across and turned into a quiet backstreet which led to her home . |
| 18 | Clara liked it as she had liked everything that afternoon , but even as she stood there and admired , and heard the history of the lump of mosaic , and listened to Martin 's views on Candida 's view on the social connotations of goldfish , she began to feel a sense of overwhelming fatigue . |
| 19 | Lucy made no reply as she turned away and went to where Matt was placing zipper bags of clothing for the men into the minibus . |
| 20 | She opened the door , looking away as she did so and listening for a second to the song of a skylark on the wind . |
| 21 | The horse was made to foil her every move , leaping forward as she moved quickly and turning her away . |
| 22 | ‘ We see ourselves as a specialty chemical company and the strategies are to invest in facilities and R & D , to emphasise Europe as we go forward and to continue to improve the quality ’ . |
| 23 | As we discussed earlier and argue later , this ‘ ideology ’ has deep biological and emotional reverberations and can not be easily dismissed as generated by propaganda or clever oratory . |
| 24 | Sleep is commonly disturbed in one way or another : some people nod off as soon as they get home and sit down ; they wake up at midnight with the TV still on — and then ca n't get back to sleep again till 3am ; some people find it impossible to wake up in the morning and getting out of bed is a real struggle ; others are awake at half-past four in the morning with their brains buzzing and churning ; some people find themselves getting very sleepy when difficult or anxiety-making things happen . |
| 25 | As they reached their garden gate , he burst into a torrent of foul-mouthed racist abuse that continued as they went inside and closed the door . |
| 26 | Formative evaluation ( to use the current jargon ) , is so obviously more important than summative , since you need to modify things as they develop rather than wring your hands over them when they have failed . |
| 27 | Children came to laugh at the animals as they rocked autistically or broke into tantrums ; creatures accustomed to marking out miles of territory in a single day were now constrained to prowl and circle in a few narrow yards . |
| 28 | In the near distance to our rear the guns had started shelling the German positions , the shells uncomfortably low as they rushed overhead and crashed into an area a short distance away . |
| 29 | They walked down the dark , creaking stairs to the empty street , and as they turned left and walked towards Cotton Lane Carrie slipped her arm through her brother 's , glad of his comforting presence despite her protests . |
| 30 | The men were happy again , the colour back in their faces as they talked together and began to walk on . |