Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | My wife got scared as I went from a nice healthy rosy red colour to sheet white in a few seconds : - ( . |
2 | This was followed by the bowling-alley racket of stones and boulders ricocheting off the walls of the crater as they ascended from a great depth to gush out over our heads in billowing clouds of debris and Our equipment , clothes and bodies were penetrated by the finest , hardest black dust . |
3 | And as England found to their cost only last month , it is an ideal which still thrives on the Continent , Norway 's equaliser coming as it did from a 30-yard out-of-the-blue effort . |
4 | ‘ Well … maybe one , ’ and he goes on to tell me that in 1967 he once served the Singing Postman ( whose career was then in its ascendance , as a result of his seminal work ‘ Av yew got a light , boy ? ’ ) with a vodka and orange juice as he returned from a triumphant evening at the Ipswich Folk Club . |
5 | Lester Piggott as he recovered from a racing fall . |