Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The whole operation was developing like a Grahame Greene novel as I walked up a dark country lane to the waiting car . |
2 | But of course , I told myself as I walked along an echoing corridor , it never did hurt nowadays . |
3 | I blame the fact that a crow chose to hover below me as I scrambled up a tricky bit of path , made more perilous by loose shifting gravel . |
4 | ‘ Who did you say you were looking for ? ’ she asked suspiciously as I pulled up a weatherbeaten bus seat . |
5 | ALL RYE LIES BEFORE YOU as you sit round a grand , authentic scale model of this ancient town . |
6 | Irresistible charm is brought to bear again as she butters up a worthy old bag ( ‘ unpleasant ’ ) who has a few tedious objections to our Hildamay waltzing off with her granddaughter . |
7 | A WOMAN who was spotted breastfeeding her baby as she drove along a busy main road was being hunted last night . |
8 | For the next couple of years , Sinitta was dog-less as she ran up an amazing string of chart hits with the guidance of the nowlegendary Stock , Aitken and Waterman . |
9 | ‘ How long 's this been going on ? ’ she asked gently as she cleaned up a nasty cut on the woman 's arm . |
10 | Jenna came back to the present rapidly and painfully as she tripped over a fallen and partially sunken log . |
11 | Suddenly she came alive and her hazel eyes lit up as she took out a large album from a walnut bureau . |
12 | The cross-examination which followed was alarming , and interspersed with words sounding like hepatitis and malaria as she filled in a long questionnaire with a series of Niets and Das . |
13 | As she stood up an empty wine bottle clattered off the bench and rolled down the pavement . |
14 | One of her first arrivals at Heathrow gave the British tabloids a field day as she climbed off a long-haul flight from Australia in the same travel-weary outfit she had boarded in . |
15 | Theresa Stevens , 21 , was beaten , repeatedly stabbed and strangled as she put up a desperate fight to save herself . |
16 | ‘ We had a photographer here , once , from a colour supplement , ’ Finn told Melanie one morning as she exclaimed over a fresh assortment of jumping-jacks ( soldiers in red jackets , each sporting a row of meticulously painted medals ) that they were too good for children . |
17 | ‘ We had been to the pub and as we walked along a well-lit walkway this man came towards us . |
18 | As we settle around a large table , John Schlesinger , the director , asks if I would like to read the minor parts . |
19 | She was watching the road as we roared down a slight incline at all of seventy . |
20 | As we sat down a little way away from the rest of the group , I saw a small girl waving her hamster 's cage at the sky . |
21 | As we stumbled over a greasy corduroy track , rhododendron branches reached eerily out of the greyness . |
22 | But as we travelled down a lovely wooded valley towards the north coast at Alta , the sun appeared below the clouds near midnight and we stopped to take our first pictures of the midnight sun . |
23 | KENT went run crazy yesterday as they piled up a 603 for eight — their highest total since 1934 — against Warwickshire at Edgbaston . |
24 | ‘ No need to get shirty , ’ Marler responded mildly as they walked along a quiet , carpeted corridor . |
25 | The two cars slammed into each other several times as they sped along a quiet tree-lined avenue before the youths finally forced her into a garden . |
26 | Instead was a happy medley of Luke laughing , of taking her hand as they ran up a long flight of grey stone steps towards some vague but wonderful journey 's end . |
27 | Eton and Lancing enjoyed rather less excitement as they fought out a dour 0-0 draw . |
28 | Where directorate systems work well , there seems to be an increase in staff morale and greater co-operation between professional groups as they cohere around an integrated programme of patient care . |
29 | The girls squealed as their feet sank into six inches of mud , but they persevered after encouragement from the boys and found the bottom much firmer as they waded out a few more feet . |
30 | ‘ I talked to Edna this week , ’ he began , as they started up a steep incline to the north of the city . |