Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [adv] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she flopped down in a corner seat , Constance looked at the man pushing her case on to the rack opposite . |
| 2 | This does n't stop them lightening up later , as she sprawls offstage in a celebratory show of crowd-surfing . |
| 3 | Mark 's wishes could n't have been better fulfilled as she ended up in a small tourist camp in Kanha National Park . |
| 4 | Hockley produced stunning eagles at the 11th and 15th as she stormed home in a five-under-par 34 . |
| 5 | I sneaked a look behind as we went off in a cloud of dust . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | The French are just laughing at us as we stumble around in a fog . ’ |
| 8 | As we pointed out in a tailpiece to this chapter in the first edition , the CNAA announced in June 1979 a modification of validation procedures for public sector institutions offering its courses . |
| 9 | In London , the social circle of such characters was known as ‘ The Altogethery ’ , as they stuck together in a social mire of their own making . |
| 10 | As they glided around in a wide circle towards the Wyrmberg it was definitely taking on a more solid form , as if the creature 's body was filling with a gold mist . |
| 11 | As they stood patiently in a doorway waiting for the column to pass , Catherine turned to say something to McLeish and he looked down at her for a long moment . |
| 12 | This adventurous and stylish design uses classical columns as supports with hooped timber arches to provide a real felling of movement as it sweeps away in a gentle curve . |
| 13 | Then , as it grows up in a normal , average temperature , the hotter area of its body — its central trunk region — remains pale in colour , while its cooler extremities become gradually darker . |
| 14 | THIS is intense ! ’ mutters Emilio Estevez , as he flies about in a glowing car . |
| 15 | A gunman fired more than 20 shots into the building , but as he made off in a stolen car , a soldier fired a single shot from an Army observation post on the top of a block of flats several hundred yards away . |
| 16 | That depressing truth is , alas , one that Mikhail Gorbachev still refuses to accept , as he stumbles around in a trap set by Lenin two-thirds of a century ago . |
| 17 | ‘ The relief ! ’ cries Howard , as he goes about in an old pair of jeans , mending the roof and painting the window-frames . |
| 18 | His eyes are wide as he gazes around in a kind of apprehension . |
| 19 | As he strode off in a pair of pre-war jodhpurs and a moth-eaten jacket ( wardrobe was never his strong point ) , I remember thinking how thin his legs looked . |
| 20 | Her hair , glowing like a brazier through the early-morning mist , her high boots and her cream-coloured quilted jacket with its exaggerated shoulders , had drawn his gaze as he sat impatiently in a line of cars while the pickets argued with the driver of an articulated wagon that was trying to enter the University . |