Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lord , our Mass is over , ’ the choir sang in sweet , lilting voices as everyone walked down the hill into town once more . |
| 2 | Presentation of the cup was made by Ian Proudfoot , Group Finance Director to Halbert Oliver , Captain of Douglas Reyburn 's team as everyone gathered in the hotel after the match . |
| 3 | There was only the scratching of pens and the rustle of paper as everyone waited for the reply . |
| 4 | There was an instant relieving of the tension as everyone joined in the laughter . |
| 5 | ‘ Pollensa ? ’ she croaked , punching out her floor and raising her eyes skywards as everyone did as the lift doors slid shut . |
| 6 | No matter how painful the problems of economic recession here , he says , these are as nothing compared with the suffering of millions in less fortunate areas . |
| 7 | Human power was as nothing compared with the strength of God . |
| 8 | The view from the tower was as nothing compared with the view Amaranth unwittingly presented . |
| 9 | The damage this did to our criticism was as nothing compared with the harm it did to our poetry . |
| 10 | The heat you encountered inside the Chamber of the Looms is as nothing compared to the heat of the Time Fire . ’ |
| 11 | As someone said at the time , ‘ I could believe him guilty of grievous bodily harm , but not grievous bodily charm . ’ |
| 12 | He stopped speaking as someone knocked at the door . |
| 13 | But while you 're doing that , I 'm trying to get the wages made up for — ’ began Josh , then exploded irritably as someone knocked at the office door : ‘ What is it now ? ’ |
| 14 | As someone bereaved through the disease , I felt angry and upset by the flippancy with which you dealt with this subject . |
| 15 | No no cos it could n't be worse than the one in the girls toilets today seeing as someone shat on the floor |
| 16 | My relief grew rapidly as I warmed to the theory . |
| 17 | Ricardo shows great patience with me as I reach for the dictionary or , using a book and his long fingers , he makes the rituals clear to me . |
| 18 | My eyes were shut most of the time now as I blundered round the park and when I opened them a red mist swirled . |
| 19 | As far as I can tell , we have some sort of unspoken agreement that I keep quiet about not officially existing in return for being able to do more or less as I like on the island and buy more or less what I like in the town . |
| 20 | I can not do as I like in the house . |
| 21 | I smile at Ma and my sister as I totter towards the compost heap beyond the garden shed . |
| 22 | As I looked towards the right , however , along the other widespread arm of the building , something materialized there like a stain : light towards the dead dull end of the electromagnetic spectrum . |
| 23 | Here was the woman I wanted to marry , the woman I thought of every day as I looked beyond the cell to make plans for the future . |
| 24 | Sadly , my euphoria evaporated as I looked through the rest of the magazine . |
| 25 | As I looked through the viewer I had the feeling , momentarily , that it really was what I had dreamed about for so long , a sort of crystal ball in which I could call up everything I had ever known . |
| 26 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 27 | It 's added a certain anticipation as well to the placement job I 've been doing — ‘ Oh come on someone must have something to say ’ was a regular feeling/thought as I looked at the monitor in anticipation . |
| 28 | Something clicked as I looked at the number . |
| 29 | Paul was trying to catch fish in a pool as I looked at the thing . |
| 30 | We were halfway along one side of the ship , and as I looked to the left I saw Oliver about fifteen feet away , staring out into the Channel . |