Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're too proud , ’ I scolded him as I brushed his black hair . |
| 2 | His green eyes pools of limpid clarity and wholly deceptive depth , but his swift grin wicked , Michele replied provocatively , ‘ I ca n't make love to a housekeeper or beat her into submission the way I could a wife , and , as I prefer my domestic arrangements to run without a hitch , I have to tread circumspectly . ’ |
| 3 | As I told my hon. Friend the Member for Batley and Spen ( Mrs. Peacock ) , we do not need to raise taxes ; the Labour party does . |
| 4 | As I told my faithful readers last week , this particular old gent was transported by an extremely uncomfortable magic carpet ( B.A. steerage , Apex ticket , with all the delights of plastic food and stewardesses trained by the Obergrüppenführer at Heathrow ) to Chiantishire , that old-established suburb of Wimbledon , which ca n't have changed much since Britannia ruled the waves and wogs stopped at Calais . |
| 5 | As I pondered my professional future with the company in the late Sixties , the self doubts did n't go away easily . |
| 6 | What I felt I was doing , as I dressed my shivering body in layer upon layer , was protecting myself . |
| 7 | ‘ I do , ’ I said , ‘ in my own ward and when I can special a patient right through , as I did my classic pneumonia girl in Hope a few weeks ago . |
| 8 | With the depressed economy and appalling trade figures ( improved a little , one hopes , by a healthy Christmas ) , I was expecting doom and gloom as I did my recent rounds of the publishing houses . |
| 9 | I have always loved him , as I do my whole family . |
| 10 | It is important that the ferrets should not become upset or bewildered and , just as I condition my loose ferrets to muzzles before working them while wearing one , I find that it pays to give line ferrets the opportunity to become accustomed to both collar and line . |
| 11 | As I wheeled my tenth-hand push-bike through the gates of the Parsons ' large detached house and made my way across the gravel forecourt past the guests ' Volvos and Audis , I began to feel uncomfortably out of my depth . |
| 12 | His smile , as I recounted my terrifying encounter — I am an arachnophobe — implied that there were worse things in life than having a spider wandering over one 's hair . |
| 13 | The driver was pistol whipped , as I believe our Big Brothers call it , and left dazed and with the radio smashed — beyond repair . |
| 14 | I was rewarded by several admiring looks as I paid my sizeable bill and blundered out , sweating , into the fog . |
| 15 | ‘ Much as I admire your unstructured lifestyle , on the evidence of the knees in those jeans I 'd think twice before I traded bank accounts with you . ’ |
| 16 | Or as you shut your front door and panic for a minute , thinking you have left your keys inside , you hear yourself say ‘ It 's all right . |
| 17 | An attack can be brought on by sudden exposure to very cold air but as long as you take your usual medication/inhaler ( with a spare refill ) along with you , there is no reason why you should get into any trouble . |
| 18 | We 'll keep the crowds back as you wash your dirty linen in public . |
| 19 | So a television picture changed at the same time as you saw your ex-lover walking down the road opposite . |
| 20 | ‘ I will be as soon as you get your fat self outta here . ’ |
| 21 | Firstly , as you perceive your old fears welling up within you , as you try to tackle the same old problem and are paralysed by the thought of failure , look at the screen of your mind . |
| 22 | And speak your own language , please : we 'll even teach it to you in our schools to prove how understanding we are , just so long as you do our dirty work for less wages than our own kind are prepared to accept : just so long as you keep yourselves to yourselves , and do n't let your children marry ours , because what we 're all terrified of , so terrified the word 's gone out of the vocabulary . |
| 23 | Probably the first thing that strikes you is the layout of the screen — there are dotted lines indicating the text 's margins , and as you type your purple prose , you notice that every space is marked by a little spot . |
| 24 | These ‘ Jewels of Creation ’ are free to flutter as you discover their intriguing life story in a journey past unusual plants , set in a landscape to create a natural environment of leaf and flower for these fantastic creatures . |
| 25 | As you approach your selected wave concentrate on getting up as much speed as possible and unhook from your harness . |
| 26 | As you explore its cobbled street lined with bow-fronted shops and Georgian-fronted houses you 're sure to discover the old Mermaid Inn , once the haunt of smugglers . |
| 27 | She nearly lost her balance as she brought her left foot alongside her right , but by bending down and clutching the stone she was able to stay on it . |
| 28 | He had always believed her to be promiscuous — now he was probably convinced , she thought bitterly , her face flaming as she recalled her total abandon in his arms . |
| 29 | Laura grinned as she recalled her early teens when she and Liz , together with their school-friend Julie , had spent the holidays climbing trees , swimming , and bicycling around the beautiful Devonshire countryside . |
| 30 | ‘ He likes all women , ’ Kylie giggled as she recalled his masculine effect on her and the other girls in the show . |