Example sentences of "as [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Alexander said I ought to wear these , ’ she explained , bright-cheeked , as Lisa sat up with a start .
2 They nearly blew it at the start of the second half too as Brighton closed in for the kill .
3 Downes almost snarled his reluctant ‘ Yes ’ ; and listened , mouth agape with incredulity , as Morse beckoned over to the two detective-constables from the second police car .
4 As Jezrael slipped warily into the waiting tapestry of neon , stone and shadow , Zuleika said , inaudibly , ‘ In the Southern Cross ship on her way to Earth , dummy . ’
5 ‘ Walberswick is a beautiful village , ’ Paula said as Newman drove slowly down The Street under the arched trees .
6 He winked at Shannon , then closed the door behind him as Marianne turned angrily from the mirror .
7 Shelley called , as Victoria walked daintily to the door .
8 As Kelly walked thoughtfully towards the car park after the last race , Cy joined her .
9 Jimmy was able to stand unassisted now as Cardiff turned back to the girl .
10 He was already advancing up the truck as Ward slithered down onto the flat surface of it .
11 A fresh squall tore the rainwater off the road surface , cascading it down so that they were riding in the inside of a waterfall as Trent powered onward in the lee of the embankment .
12 THE report , Stevie explained as Patrick drove away from the station , had come through the British Embassy in Bucharest .
13 There were grapes crushed into the sheet , some rolling loose ; another popped as Sophie rolled over in a parody of sexual refusal .
14 Mrs Wallington 's tight face relaxed a little as David leaned forward over the criss-crossed string that her hands held taut between them .
15 And then one evening I rang the bell and then I noticed the lock was up , so I pushed the door open and looked up the stairs , at the same time as Toinette looked down round the door .
16 As Ellen scurried out of the room like a frightened mouse , Ruth sat down again .
17 Fortunately , those 600 were the last for those shoes as Nike came round with a pair , but Zarei did seem disappointed at the lack of regular sponsorship .
18 A great cheer when up as Ann broke away from the crowd and went after Harry , but she hardly heard it .
19 As Therese walked forward towards the stage steps the silk coat swung out around her , catching the light , drawing attention to her legs .
20 Madge held the folds of material away as Therese climbed down from the stage .
21 As Richard stood up in the boat , he could be seen to hesitate , not about what he wanted to do , but about procedures .
22 As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library .
23 As Gorbachev pointed out in an interview in early 1991 , only about 30 per cent of the USSR 's boundaries had been legally defined .
24 Visual illusions are an excellent illustration , in fact , of the division between a specialized and autonomous mechanism for seeing and the cognitive system which determines whether we should believe what we see , as Helmholtz pointed out over a century ago .
25 One would have thought that the Great Depression years in the United States had provided a suitable testing ground for the efficacy of the real-balance effect , but , as Patinkin pointed out at an early stage in the development of the neoclassical synthesis , a large increase in real balances appeared to be accompanied by a large fall in output .
26 As Penny went over to the drinks table the headmaster was in full spate .
27 As Mazur got closer to the big players in the Colombian drug world , one name began to come up more and more often : that of BCCI .
28 At last , at dinner one evening , the conversations and laughter died away raggedly as Duart stood up at the high table and raised his hand .
29 But as Orton pointed out in the diary , as usual nothing came of it — not even after telling a man who tried to get in their way to ‘ piss off ’ .
30 Below , a door opened and there was a brief swell in the volume of conversation and laughter as Gerard stepped out into the hall .
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