Example sentences of "as [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claudia said demurely as Roman carried her into the bedroom . |
| 2 | It must have taken a while from Taunton , Charles thought , as Frances drove them in the yellow Renault 5 along the route Lesley-Jane had described . |
| 3 | Jimmy with the gun on Rohmer , as Cardiff held him against the corridor wall . |
| 4 | The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed . |
| 5 | Her head began to throb but it eased as Fernando guided her through the crowds to small , quieter side-streets away from the harbour . |
| 6 | ‘ Not before time , ’ Stevie remarked , as Patrick joined him on the 17th tee . |
| 7 | By the late 1980s the CPSU itself accepted , as Gorbachev put it to the 27th Party Congress , that no single party could have a ‘ monopoly of truth ’ and that the movement as a whole would not normally be unanimous on all the issues it confronted . |
| 8 | As Shevardnadze put it in a speech to foreign ministry staff in 1987 , they represented a country which for the previous fifteen years had been ‘ more and more losing its position as one of the leading industrially developed countries ’ . |
| 9 | He jumped as Heg tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 10 | As Ronni chose one by the nearest window , he repeated his question . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'ear , ’ Madame laughed as Ellie examined herself in a mirror hand-held by the assistant , ‘ that in London these new 'ats are lethal ! |
| 12 | One fire engine was damaged as crews used it as a barrier while they tried to extinguish the fire in the building 's upper floor and roof . |
| 13 | Isabel asked herself as fitzAlan swung himself into the saddle behind her . |
| 14 | It was 3-0 just before half-time as Shearer threw himself at the ball . |
| 15 | He woke as Pete heaved himself from the bunk . |
| 16 | Revolution was now the buzzword , as pop allied itself with the youth riots that occurred throughout Europe and America in 1968 and 1969 ; although overtly concerned with inner space , pop went public with a confusing mixture of ideology and rhetoric , to which private concerns like self and sexuality were subordinated . |
| 17 | ‘ Tina , darling , perhaps it 's time — ’ Lucenzo swore as Katarina interrupted him with a heart-rending wail . |
| 18 | Edward was much more confused than Maurice and needed all the help he was getting as Maurice manhandled him to the top of the ladder . |
| 19 | There is a ‘ barrier ’ between the attractive and the unattractive — between , as Graham puts it on a later occasion , the ‘ beggars ’ and ‘ choosers ’ of the sexual life . |
| 20 | The music is lost , but Cavalieri 's contemporaries agree that it was he who , as Peri put it in the preface to his Euridice ( 1600 ) , ‘ before anyone else made our music ’ ( i.e. the ‘ nuova maniera di canto ’ ) ‘ heard on the stage ’ . |
| 21 | She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ . |
| 22 | There was no need for words between them , no post-mortem , as Rune relieved her of the burden of his weight , drawing her to him , pulling her dark head down on his strong golden shoulder agleam with the sparkling moisture of his sweet , clean sweat . |
| 23 | It was barely a whisper as Rune guided her to a seat half hidden by luxuriant foliage . |
| 24 | Sternly she dragged her thoughts and reactions under control , as Rune guided her through the crowded room towards the exit . |
| 25 | Tony was cowering away , shaking as Damian held him by the lapels of his shirt . |
| 26 | Margrida suggested , as Vitor ushered her into a four-wheel-drive Suzuki . |
| 27 | As Harry led her towards the dance floor , she said , ‘ For one moment I thought you were going to knock poor Jerry sideways . ’ |
| 28 | If the convention as anti-parliament is understood as assuming that the people 's wishes must prevail , that the convention better expressed those wishes than parliament and therefore in any contest between the two popular loyalty should be to the convention , as abolitionists employed it in the 1830s , it was closer to a focus for intensifying ‘ pressure from without ’ than an alternative to parliament . |
| 29 | Furthermore , as Martov put it at the 1903 congress , all members of the party should be concerned with the disabilities of minorities , not just the minority itself . |
| 30 | As Leonard expressed it in the poem which — in title and texture counterbalances the title of the book : |