Example sentences of "as [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , after work , I got a pretty good look at these new pants of ours , as Tod stood before the full-length mirror unknotting the plump Windsor of his tie . |
| 2 | As early as 1933 , when he was nineteen , he watched in joy and fascination as Germany burst into a new era , and Russia fed her revolution on the flesh of her own children . |
| 3 | Cranston leaned back as Joscelyn brought across the steaming platters of food . |
| 4 | The bright sunlight had straightened the ball 's flight-path , and as Gower fed on the short balls and what he converted into half-volleys , there were fleeting thoughts of a century before lunch , such was his willingness to go after runs . |
| 5 | The mast quivered and bowed as Trent dived for the main and jib sheets , whipping them clear of the cam cleats . |
| 6 | The second half opened up with Theresa Harrison hitting ten points as Sunderland eased to a 47–29 victory . |
| 7 | Charlie watched in horror as Makepeace fell across the barbed barrier and another burst of enemy bullets peppered his motionless body . |
| 8 | Although Graves pulled three points back with a penalty goal , there was no let-up as Gregory put over the second dropped goal of the season . |
| 9 | But his 75 contained just one boundary and in all there were just six fours in the innings as Surrey crawled to a paltry 168 all out in 49 of the allotted 50 overs . |
| 10 | The two men were knocked aside as Corbett swung round the overturned wagon and broke into a gallop , clinging to his horse and hoping it would keep its feet on the rough rutted track . |
| 11 | In the eighth minute Leicester drew level as Wright pounced on a loose ball after Gee 's shot had been blocked , to score his 15th goal of the season . |
| 12 | Still , if Brahms knew his Rheinberger , what this CD makes clear is how well Rheinberger knew his Brahms , who stands over theses String Quartets , as Beethoven did over the young Brahms himself , only much more obviously : there are echoes of Brahms in the textures , the themes , the passage-work , the construction . |
| 13 | Others saw the action in a more defensive light : as Brezhnev explained at the 26th Party Congress in 1981 , the situation in Afghanistan posed a ‘ direct threat to the security of [ the Soviet ] southern frontier ’ , and it was certainly true that an unstable , possibly militant Islamic government in a state immediately adjoining the USSR 's southern borders might have quite serious implications for public order in the traditionally Muslim republics of Central Asia . |
| 14 | As Brezhnev explained to the 26th CPSU Congress in 1981 , developments in Iran were ‘ complex and contradictory ’ but what had taken place was nonetheless an ‘ anti-imperialist revolution ’ . |
| 15 | As Hatch moved to a small drinks trolley , well stocked with spirits , Cowley took a last , lingering look at the photograph of Patrick Weaver , father of the dead bride . |
| 16 | The outside door opened and a man entered the house just as Frankie slipped through the other door into the dark corridor beyond . |
| 17 | Smith , the British No 23 from Staffordshire , could hardly do anything right as Croft raced to a 4-0 lead and broke service four times en route to the first set . |
| 18 | Yet the chances of failure in the legitimate side of the business were even greater , as Nicholson discovered with a new role which on the surface seemed a godsent opportunity — to appear in Ensign Pulver , the much-discussed sequel to Mister Roberts . |
| 19 | The trouble with you , Katherine Jardine , is that you look too good in anything and everything , ’ Portia said wistfully as Katherine slipped into the borrowed blue silk dress with ruched sleeves . |
| 20 | HE was the butt of jokes as England flopped at the European Championship . |
| 21 | The bedroom was neat , though , as Franca noticed with a little surprise , a bit dusty . |
| 22 | And as Pete emerged by the rocky edge of the water , he saw her . |
| 23 | Byas , opening for the first time this season in any competition , hit his first century in one day cricket as Yorkshire cruised to a nine-wicket win over Derbyshire with 39 balls to spare . |
| 24 | The gearbox selected neutral as Patrese went through a quick left-hander , a problem which he could have coped with had the mechanism not decided to offer him , without warning , second gear half-way through . |
| 25 | Some stations stood in the heart of thriving capital cities and teemed with life day and night ; others in desolate fastnesses , where as Dickens remarked of the remote New England depots , ‘ the wild impossibility of anybody having the smallest reason to get out is only equalled by the apparently desperate hopelessness of there being anybody to get in ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's the … polyneuritis … ’ he heard himself say , as Donald sneaked towards the medical dictionary , his big handsome head bowed with concern , his grey eyes looking into the distance , in the direction of the local tennis court . |
| 27 | In the first round of the NatWest , he equalled his career-best performance in the competition with 6 for 21 as Cheshire collapsed to a 204-run defeat . |
| 28 | Whatever passed between him and Bellarmine in 1616 , his freedom to champion a moving earth had clearly been curbed , even if at that stage — as Bellarmine confirmed in a signed affidavit — there had been neither abjuration nor penance . |
| 29 | As Mr said in an earlier report , brackets B twelve closed brackets quote , Anna Jane is a quick witted intelligent girl and it is obviously extremely frustrating for her to have to type her conversations , unquote . |
| 30 | ‘ Hardly be worse , ’ agreed Shirley , as Ashenden launched into a well-rehearsed eulogy of Dr Moule 's incomparable pre-eminence in the field of Romano-British archaeology in Somerset — before walking to the entrance door at the rear , and turning off the lights . |