Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 41-year-old mother realised she was being followed by two men as she returned to a multi-storey car park after a lunchtime trip to a supermarket in Fareham , Hants . |
| 2 | Briefly , however , the TV-action girl-cum-panto star looked the belle of the ball as she swept to a 4-0 lead against an opponent beset by stage fright . |
| 3 | She clutched his arm at one point , bringing him to a halt in the middle of the pavement , heedless of the passers-by as she pointed to a tall column at the end of the street . |
| 4 | But unfortunately this did not last for long as we came to a narrow , shallow strip of the river . |
| 5 | Six-year-old Michael Smith and his parents were spotted by a passing yacht as they clung to a tiny buoyancy bag in darkness . |
| 6 | Shrewd passes from Spurdle underlined Ants ' confidence as they progressed to a big win . |
| 7 | ‘ This lift only goes to the penthouse , ’ he mocked as they came to a smooth halt . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the parties did undergo some transformation as they adapted to a changing political climate . |
| 9 | Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs … |
| 10 | Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs … |
| 11 | The modest target posed no problems for the bubbling Pontblyddyn side as they stormed to a winning 67–3 in the 20th over , opener Mark Hughes ( 31 ) and Mark Williams ( 16 ) ensuring that shell-shocked Colwyn missed out on a zone semi-final . |
| 12 | YORKSHIRE produced their most exhilarating batting of the season at Acklam Park , Middlesbrough , yesterday , as they stormed to a magnificent victory over Somerset in the Sunday League . |
| 13 | Troops had fired into a crowd of 2,000-3,000 unarmed civilians as they marched to a local barracks to protest against the illegal detention of a neighbour , acts of intimidation , and the abuse of Army authority . |
| 14 | The plain fact of the matter , snobbish though it may sound , was that they were both unintelligent and ill-educated in comparison to myself , belonging as they did to a different social class from the one into which I had been co-opted at school . |
| 15 | He let the film run again , watching as it cut to a later moment when Fischer had interrupted the meeting to tell the T'ang about the fire . |
| 16 | Secondly , in so far as it spoke to a general enlargement of the mind , the student experience was not confined to the acquisition of mere technique . |
| 17 | The ‘ tseep-tseep ’ of a rock pipit echoed as it flew to a seaweed-strewn ledge . |
| 18 | In the traditional hunting communities , those who were a burden — because they had become too old to hunt or to follow the family as it trekked to a new hunting ground — took themselves off to an ice-floe or an isolated rock and waited for death . |
| 19 | Wexford 's voice grew hard as he warmed to a favourite theme . |
| 20 | Becker was back in his boom-boom form less than 24 hours after surviving a five-set first-round match as he cruised to a 6-2 , 6-2 , 6-4 win over Jakob Hlasek , of Switzerland , in one hour and 47 minutes . |
| 21 | Becker was back in his boom-boom form less than 24 hours after surviving a five-set first-round match as he cruised to a 6-2 , 6-2 , 6-4 win over Jakob Hlasek , of Switzerland , in one hour and 47 minutes . |
| 22 | Southern Memories won in the style of a well handicapped horse as he cruised to a three-length win from Special One at Windsor last week . |
| 23 | PHIL SIMMONS smashed 17 boundaries as he raced to a brilliant 106 in only 150 minutes for the West Indies yesterday . |
| 24 | Well , there is , according to Steve Smith , a viticulturist at New Zealand wine producer Villa Maria , as he explained to a shocked audience of Scottish trade guests at a tasting at Samuel Dow 's in Glasgow recently — based in a section of the dear , green place where sex , by tradition , is what coal comes in . |
| 25 | MICHAEL STICH exploded a warning shot over his Wimbledon rivals yesterday as he stormed to a crushing victory in the Stella Artois Championships at Queen 's Club . |
| 26 | Defending champion Huggett , the former Ryder Cup skipper , missed six putts of under five feet as he slipped to a 73 for a two round aggregate of 145 — three over par . |
| 27 | STEFAN EDBERG 's Wimbledon preparations were shunted off the rails last night as he crashed to a humiliating defeat at the hands of world No 83 Jamie Morgan in the Stella Artois championships at Queen 's Club . |