Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read , just as I had at the Moroneys , yet with the single difference in this case there was a young man , Aoin O'Heiher , a nephew of Liam O'Flaherty and he introduced me to writers like Eliot and Joyce . |
| 2 | Julian Cope 's new single , as I said in the NME , is a taster from the ‘ Jehovakill ’ album and once again finds the old maestro … ’ |
| 3 | I headed for the tube station at Baker Street and turned down my collar as I came into the Marylebone Road . |
| 4 | I ran as fast as I dared along the Tottenham Court Road . |
| 5 | As I mentioned in the Sunday Times article , Pomiane was fond of hot beetroot , and used it often , mixing vinegar and cream with it , a very un-French combination , and by no means the only one of his unconventional suggestions in the domain of vegetable cookery to arouse the scorn of reactionaries . |
| 6 | The girl has told police that as she walked along The Phelps , a man grabbed her and forced her on to a grass verge . |
| 7 | As she walked into the Percy Bar the sight of her youngest son sitting in the corner raised Constance 's spirits . |
| 8 | It was not the horrendous drop that had frightened her as she rode in the Land Rover . |
| 9 | She was out of the car at once , the door slammed , her aggressive , slender height bristling with rage as she advanced on the Porsche driver . |
| 10 | Clara , as she ran for the Métro , was full of the greatest joy of her life , for she felt herself to be , at last , living ; the thick complexity of what had happened satisfied something in her that had never before had satisfaction . |
| 11 | A GIRL was critically ill last night after her mother walked away as she fell into the River Thames . |
| 12 | As she cycled across the Pariser Platz on the Eastern side , her shrieks of joy echoed in the huge Doric columns of the Brandenburg Gate . |
| 13 | The town was just coming alive , as she got to the Silver Shuriken . |
| 14 | Sunlight streamed through the arched windows , dusting her with pale gold as she hurried along the Aubusson carpet that stretched the length of the gallery . |
| 15 | However , he was obliging enough and she was glad of his company as she hurried through the Philadelphia streets towards the lodging house . |
| 16 | She drove as fast as she dared past the Jardin Anglais and at last swung out on to the Quai Gustav Ador . |
| 17 | Valiant had a near miss at intercepting her one day as she homed into the Thames after a channel crossing but lost her on a chase up the Medway in which they stood no chance with the power boat 's superior speed . |
| 18 | As she emerged into the Rue Castiglione the cold hit Harriet like a slap in the face and she lifted her camera , easing the zipper of her sky-blue ski jacket right up under her chin and turning the collar up around her ears . |
| 19 | It 's a dream for me to be here making an album with them ’ she added as she arrived in the UK five months after her visit to record ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ . |
| 20 | There was fog as we came through the Pentland Firth on our way back to Hull . |
| 21 | As we saw with the Paddy Ashdown scandal raised during our last election , politicians everywhere seem to rely on mud-slinging instead of argument . |
| 22 | Even if it measures the use of redundancy up to ten words either side of the deletion , this is still not the same as measuring comprehension : as we saw in the Bailey and Harrison study , redundancy and comprehensibility can be very different aspects of a text . |
| 23 | Here there are often too many people ( not too\few ) but safety does not lie in numbers , as we saw in the Champs-Elysées story . |
| 24 | There 's a common interest of course of avoiding war for most people anyway , but there 's also a common interest we know related to environmental issues and that can not be dealt with by each country , each country may have unique environmental problems but environmental problems straddle erm boundaries of countries as we saw from the Chernobyl problem of some years ago . |
| 25 | Somewhat incongruously , an accordion started playing ‘ The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen ’ as we passed under the Erskine Bridge , thin and elegant as the still herons by the side of the now slowly widening river . |
| 26 | As we passed over the Thames we paused to look at a steamer unloading great slabs of white and brown marble . |
| 27 | Here is another example of BR communication photographed on Middlesbrough station as we waited for the Hartlepool train . |
| 28 | ‘ Monday 's not a good day , ’ I said , as we piled into the Citröen . |
| 29 | The world is still dangerous and unstable , as we found in the Falklands and the Gulf . |
| 30 | As we explained in the AEA Times bulletin we have not yet resolved all the issues and to some extent we must be flexible in taking account of the way Government thinking develops . |