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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Who did you say you were looking for ? ’ she asked suspiciously as I pulled up a weatherbeaten bus seat . |
| 4 | ALL RYE LIES BEFORE YOU as you sit round a grand , authentic scale model of this ancient town . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A WOMAN who was spotted breastfeeding her baby as she drove along a busy main road was being hunted last night . |
| 7 | ‘ How long 's this been going on ? ’ she asked gently as she cleaned up a nasty cut on the woman 's arm . |
| 8 | Jenna came back to the present rapidly and painfully as she tripped over a fallen and partially sunken log . |
| 9 | Suddenly she came alive and her hazel eyes lit up as she took out a large album from a walnut bureau . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Theresa Stevens , 21 , was beaten , repeatedly stabbed and strangled as she put up a desperate fight to save herself . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ We had been to the pub and as we walked along a well-lit walkway this man came towards us . |
| 15 | As we settle around a large table , John Schlesinger , the director , asks if I would like to read the minor parts . |
| 16 | She was watching the road as we roared down a slight incline at all of seventy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As we stumbled over a greasy corduroy track , rhododendron branches reached eerily out of the greyness . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | KENT went run crazy yesterday as they piled up a 603 for eight — their highest total since 1934 — against Warwickshire at Edgbaston . |
| 21 | ‘ No need to get shirty , ’ Marler responded mildly as they walked along a quiet , carpeted corridor . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Eton and Lancing enjoyed rather less excitement as they fought out a dour 0-0 draw . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I talked to Edna this week , ’ he began , as they started up a steep incline to the north of the city . |
| 27 | It 'll be all hands on deck from now on , ’ Moran told the girls as they sat over a late breakfast . |
| 28 | The Geordies were seemingly cruising as they built up a 3-0 half-time lead . |
| 29 | Barbados had witnessed a rather different Hanif a year earlier as he took out a 16-hour 10-minute lease on the crease and sculpted a monumental 337 against Worrell and Co . |
| 30 | What was odd , thought Twoflower as he strolled down a wide flight of stairs and kicked up billowing clouds of silver dust motes , was that the tunnels here were much wider . |