Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you very much for supporting the evening , nice to see so many faces , as I said especially on a summer evening like today . |
| 2 | Sun streams into the upstairs room as I step gingerly through a maze of wires and find a corner to sit in amidst the jungle of electronic equipment . |
| 3 | Oh , yes , I got to know these well as I slunk past like a hungry fox in a deserted kitchen yard . |
| 4 | That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er |
| 5 | She dropped the keys into her bag and straightened up , a small cry escaping her as she walked straight into a large solid body . |
| 6 | And then , one Saturday , as she walked listlessly through a Matisse exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art , Caroline had run into a girl she knew from catalogue modelling . |
| 7 | THE jury in the Teeside Crown Court trial of two men accused of attacking a 17-year-old girl as she walked home after a night out is expected to reach a verdict today . |
| 8 | A woman has been attacked and raped by two men as she walked home from a pub . |
| 9 | A SEX attacker who pounced on a woman early on Sunday in Troon as she walked home from a night out is still being hunted by police . |
| 10 | And , as she walked innocently along a street to collect holiday snaps before returning to Lancashire , she was cut down by a bullet meant for a soldier . |
| 11 | Flustered anew , she felt a warm flush of embarrassment flood her face as she searched vainly for an answer . |
| 12 | A PENSIONER was raped early yesterday as she returned home from a church service . |
| 13 | She would hardly have been able to get as far as she had already without a very strong image of the outlines of the world , of her own personal dream . |
| 14 | This does n't stop them lightening up later , as she sprawls offstage in a celebratory show of crowd-surfing . |
| 15 | He watched her as she went past at a walk , the black Labrador and he both gazing wistfully , their breath steaming in the cold February morning . |
| 16 | Not as she thought right for a person 's end , |
| 17 | Ianthe was not the type to pour herself a glass of sherry or gin as soon as she got home after a day 's work , nor yet to make a cup of tea . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , they 're talking about it , ’ my mother said , dipping her head towards the table and holding her Paisley-pattern scarf to her throat as she nibbled tentatively at a large cream cake . |
| 19 | Hockley produced stunning eagles at the 11th and 15th as she stormed home in a five-under-par 34 . |
| 20 | As she turned away with a heavy sigh , he heard her say , almost sadly : ‘ The boy knows his own mind . |
| 21 | Christina wanted to remind him that he had only helped with the backing and that the real work had been done by Stephen and her , but she kept quiet and instead watched Jean Reece-Carlton as she turned away from a gloating Robert in disgust , muttering something under her breath . |
| 22 | She untied the sleeves of her sweater and began to pull it on over her head , aware as she did so of a faint muffled sound behind her . |
| 23 | Everyone stopped where they were and stared as she pointed dramatically at a dark green house plant which stood on some kind of plinth behind the seat she 'd been allocated . |
| 24 | As we walked away to a coffee-shop in the Royal Mile , Meehan said , ‘ That 's the first court in my life I 've been turned away from . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ … a Piece of flak must have hit the elevators as we went straight into a dive … ’ |
| 26 | Dappled dawn came slowly to us as we crawled weakly up a steep track . |
| 27 | Eleanor , Aveling and Liebknecht wrote to another , We have never seen in Europe such wanton interference on the part of the police with the liberty of the subject as we saw today in a country proverbially known as ‘ the land of the free ’ . |
| 28 | As we understand more about a text 's specific historicity , how it emerged from a distinctive social embedment , we might expect it to be unavailable sometimes for current employment . |
| 29 | The young man , who is now 23 years old , was only 16 when a car ploughed into him and a couple of friends as they walked home from a party . |
| 30 | In other words , we would deal with applications as they come forward on an ad hoc basis where the onus onus would be on the developer to prove er prove exceptional circumstances . |