Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have these dreams , ’ Lee said , as she worked with a red plastic scourer . |
| 2 | So she watched , and listened , and fell a little further , and when his bleep went she went back with him to the department and they worked side by side , communicating with a gesture or a word almost in silence , each anticipating the other 's needs as they dealt with a little girl who had fallen out of a tree and broken both arms and one leg . |
| 3 | He had , however , chosen to publicise his act of departure , and this public disavowal , coinciding as it did with a ferocious government anti-communist crackdown , was inevitably interpreted as a treacherous stab in the back that could not pass unavenged . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's just play-fighting for me , ’ said Ray , as he landed with a bone-crunching thud . |
| 5 | Andy had n't a care in the world as he joked with a star-packed line-up of players . |
| 6 | MYSTERY surrounds a claim that Prince Andrew was caught by the camera as he frolicked with a bikini-clad beauty . |