Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recall the amazing blue of a field fare 's sunlit back ( drab grey on a grey day ) ; the tantalising glimpses of a secretive water rail which crept and scuttled in the shelter of a ditch ( red bill , black and white striped flanks , richly streaked brown back , bluish-grey neck ) ; and the rusty red flanks of a redwing which shot up in front of me as I walked past willow scrub behind the barrier bank . |
| 2 | As I fought for bar space to order the drinks , I looked over my shoulder and caught her making hand signals to a bunch of her friends camped on the stairs leading up to the Ladies ' toilets . |
| 3 | I believe that no woman will ever again suffer as much as I have through rank discrimination in the police force . " |
| 4 | Denver and my own personal erm opposition to terminal five , living as I do in South West Herts is obviously covered by the fact that I do live within fifteen minutes drive of Heathrow or an hour and three quarters if you go by the M twenty five . |
| 5 | As far as I recall from school biology , you do not acquire relatives by waving . |
| 6 | The incident came back to me as I sat in nay room in St Joan 's food reading Black 's Veterinary Dictionary . |
| 7 | The rapist and an accomplice , both wielding knives , grabbed the woman as she walked past waste ground on the way home from her sister 's house in Smethwick , Birmingham , at 3am . |
| 8 | Lindsey was still breathing hard as she strode through hospital reception , with an effort managing to smile at the small group of people sitting there before going through to the consulting-room and flinging her jacket on to the nearest chair . |
| 9 | As she disposes of quality adult players , with apparent ease , this 15-year old displays a remarkable poise that will see her well-equipped to take on the best in the world . |
| 10 | And as she lay in bed listening , was it the wartime sky which stretched above her head ? |
| 11 | As she progressed through elimination diet both wheat and corn caused diarrhoea on first reintroduction but not later . |
| 12 | Yet it is the head movements of the young girl as she dances to Pie Jesu that are so telling . |
| 13 | This request opened out a new field of activities for Factota Limited , and the amateur gardener was in high fettle as she marched down Catkin Lane , with a large fork over her shoulder and Sausage prancing at her side . |
| 14 | As we saw in World War II when SOE agents in France were deliberately sacrificed in order to plant deception schemes upon the Germans , ' ! espionage is a very brutal-game in which human lives are of no more significance than pieces on a chess board . |
| 15 | There is surely a lesson here for us , as we turn to information technology for solutions to our own problems of communication . |
| 16 | We need to pay as much deliberate attention to opportunity-seeking as we do to problem solving . |
| 17 | " Last year our friends and allies provided the bulk of the economic costs of Desert Shield , and having now received commitments of over $40,000 million for the first three months of 1991 , I am confident that they will do no less as we move through Desert Storm . |
| 18 | Wall comes in again Ormanroyd gets it clear and then it 's blast away by Greyson as we move into stoppage time . |
| 19 | Coupland reports ( 1984 : 60 ) : As percentages of the less-standard variants of each variable rise in the client 's speech ( as we move from occupation class I to V ) , so the percentages of these variants in Sue 's speech in conversation with these groups generally rise . |
| 20 | Many bishops emerged as the saviours of their cities as they arranged for famine relief and secured the ransom of prisoners during the years of crisis . |
| 21 | Another approach being considered is to allow pupils to develop this information skill as they go through inquiry work . |
| 22 | ‘ Funny mood they 're in ’ Delia Sutherland said as they drove towards Home Dairy . |
| 23 | As they grow into adult life they find that many of the conflicts and confusions of childhood are unresolved . |
| 24 | She said no more and as soon as they arrived at Broom House she said , ‘ No need to take me right up to the house — I can walk up the drive . ’ |
| 25 | As they hurried down Fleet Street Athelstan wondered if perhaps Sir John had drunk too deep . |
| 26 | As they turned up River Street it was coming down the hill and there would n't be another for an hour . |
| 27 | This article gives an overview of SCOTVEC 's current position on quality assurance , as it relates to workplace assessment , which is now becoming an important feature of SVQs . |
| 28 | As it pounds through Granite Rapid , the Colorado River gives every appearance of being a wild and untamed torrent , but this is an illusion . |
| 29 | Besides its low-profile Object Group Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant Application Control Architecture Service application integration scheme , it thinks that COSE might like Habitat , its technology for enabling an operating system to take on the personality of another as it does with Unix System V.4 on its OSF/1 system — and it would n't expect fellow COSEs to implement it right away . |
| 30 | Firstly the package did not have to sell itself as it does in self service shopping , since the salesman himself acted to promote the products . |