Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I poured two generous Smirnoffs on the rocks from the mini-bar , he started on his problems . |
| 2 | As I have two young children , I fit my working time around school and sleep times so I am lucky to have a small room at home that I use as a studio . |
| 3 | As you realize six hundred clubs , the chances of my getting round all of them , ha |
| 4 | As you say three thousand pound a year that could be paid off a place of our own is is just I mean if I have to rent it well I 'll have to rent one . |
| 5 | She used her feet , dancing away and flying back , anchoring herself to the broken lamp-post as she launched four rapid kicks to the Daughter 's torso . |
| 6 | Satisfaction warmed her heart as she watched two healthy pups suckling contentedly . |
| 7 | Still — she could n't help but give a little chuckle as she watched one small boy in calipers crossing the dance floor at an amazingly fast clip , hotly pursued by a red-faced Candy — the children had somehow managed to drag her out of the fog of misery that had enveloped her with Adam 's leaving . |
| 8 | He shook his head , leaning back slightly , watching as she drew one shapely leg up beneath her on the chair . |
| 9 | " Are they real , dad ? " she whispered , as we passed one young guardsmen , his burnished helmet reflecting the glittering chandelier above . |
| 10 | But it was evidently not well screened enough , as we discovered one hot day when we were placidly sunbathing in our undies ( Waaf issue , flesh pink and substantial ) . |
| 11 | Crane driver , television tubes , light bulbs , do you know these bulbs er , they used to come er , we used t they used to be made here , they used to be sent over to Holland and the brass bit used to be put in and the element inside and they used to go over there in cardboard boxes all loose and there used to be hundreds of them broken , they did n't , they did n't worry about it , as long as they , they reckon that as long as they get twenty five percent a hold they were satisfied and they were just in ordinary boxes , no paper in or nothing , just all loose . |
| 12 | He put the papers away and leaned back , gazing out of the window at the bright banks of sunlit cloud as they reached thirty thousand feet . |
| 13 | A trumpet solo followed midway through the second half but St Johnstone failed to rally as they lost two more goals without reply . |
| 14 | This problem was one that was confronting the brothers as they sat one late night at Rafferty 's after everyone had gone . |
| 15 | At the time , the mill , which was powered by the Painswick Stream , was engaged in the cloth trade , as it housed two fulling stocks and a gig mill . |
| 16 | AS IT ANNOUNCES 40 HIGH-END VALUEPOINT MODELS IN THE US |
| 17 | I add my voice to the condemnation of the activity of the Provisional IRA which has pertained in Northern Ireland for more than 20 years and which in this case was clearly sectarian as it killed seven Protestant workers . |
| 18 | Significant other : no wonder the phrase has such a popular current usage , combining as it does two all-time favourites of late philosophical jargon — the semiotic sign and the mysterious alien . |
| 19 | North Yorkshire 's national reputation for education and industry links is confirmed as it hosts two major conferences . |
| 20 | As he passed two small boys on the banking , he brushed against one of them and simply mumbled ‘ Sorry ’ . |
| 21 | A clay cutter who earned 10s ( 50p ) a week , to which was added a further 5s 6d ( 27½p ) from his two teenage sons , still needed some supplementation as he had three young daughters to support . |
| 22 | There is Sydney Carton with one foot on the steps of the guillotine ; Oliver Twist with his empty plate held out ; Micawber with his back to the fire ( and to the wall ) enunciating his economic philosophy ; Uriah Heep , hunched as he rubs one humble hand over the back of the other . |
| 23 | Many buildings along the road were burning fiercely and , as he counted 12 dead Germans around the house just destroyed by mortar fire , Colonel Durnford-Slater encouraged the men to run through the flames by leading the way . |
| 24 | Indeed , it was the man at the opposite end of the park , Sieb Dykstra , who had the busier afternoon as he produced three crucial saves , the middle one — he was backpedalling as he acrobatically tipped over a superb Pat McGinlay shot — being the pick of the bunch . |
| 25 | Melrose , who led 7-6 at half-time , put in a storming finish , with captain Robbie Brown leading by example as he notched two late tries . |
| 26 | The faintest hint of amusement glimmered in his obsidian eyes as he raised one jet-black eyebrow . |
| 27 | He spent a pretty exciting day himself yesterday , taking lessons in ‘ rave ’ culture as he visited 400 unemployed youngsters who are on an eight-day break at a Norfolk holiday camp organised by the Prince 's Trust . |
| 28 | The ladder trembled as soon as he put one bare foot on it . |
| 29 | Joey seemed bewildered as he put one large hand on his mother 's shoulder . |
| 30 | ‘ No , ’ he agreed as he smoothed one large palm across her short hair , moved to cup her face . |