Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Leo ! ’ she exclaimed crossly as she gave a little hop and a skip to keep up with his long strides . |
| 32 | Now that he knows it 's himself he ca n't help noticing the slightly ridiculous and embarrassing qualities — the way the young man frowns importantly as he talks about his job , and waves his arms about when he gets stuck for words ; and the way he smiles insincerely at Howard from time to time , and looks straight into his eyes in an effort to demonstrate that he is interested in Howard as well as himself . |
| 33 | Candy 's blue eyes narrowed suspiciously as she prowled round Rory like a tiny bird of prey inspecting its dinner . |
| 34 | And his smile , appearing slowly as he looked down at us , gleamed with a whiteness that almost hurt . |
| 35 | She was holding a net curtain to one side with the gold-ringed fingers of one hand , while in the other hand she held to her mouth a long white ebony cigarette holder on which she drew constantly as she watched the visitor enter her neighbour 's house . |
| 36 | So absorbed was she in the effort of preparing herself mentally for what lay ahead that she did not glance upstream as she drove across Cookham Bridge and wonder why there were no party-goers gathered round a marquee on the lawn of Swans ' Meadow , why indeed there was no marquee pitched on the lawn at all . |
| 37 | " There he is , " she whispered excitedly , and pointed out a young man of about João 's age , whose lips moved constantly as he said a rosary . |
| 38 | The chariot itself may attack only as it charges causing D6 hits plus +1 per scythe if scythes are fitted on the model . |
| 39 | On her office desk sits a picture of mother and daughter laughing together as they stroll through the Lake District . |
| 40 | Certainly she had not expected Felipe , and her tears stopped suddenly as she absorbed this new shock . |
| 41 | Her mocking laughter stopped suddenly as she saw his face go deathly white . |
| 42 | He believes that during the inter-war years the three sections of the upper class virtually fused together as they all became increasingly involved in the growing industrial enterprises . |
| 43 | CHEADLE , flags holders , league champions and unbeaten for more than two years , did not allow their proud record to slip away as they beat Heaton Mersey 15–12 in the final of the Daily Telegraph Senior Flags final at Didsbury yesterday . |
| 44 | As was often common after breech births , the afterbirth had not come away as it should have done , and Effie had been so torn during the birth , Dr Neil told her later , that she had started to bleed , and then the bleeding had turned into a violent haemorrhaging , the passage of the afterbirth completing the damage already done to Effie 's poor little body . |
| 45 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 46 | The game from that period looks just as it did when the original agreement was concluded — because of the infinite horizon assumption every subgame is identical to the original game — and so if it was in the firms ' interests to negotiate that agreement initially it will be in their interests now to renegotiate that agreement . |
| 47 | ‘ Looks just as I expected , ’ Patrick said , plugging in the kettle . |
| 48 | Her mother had surprised everyone by dying just as they were recovering from her husband 's death . |
| 49 | Thomas looked at them all , and then at Simon , who was now a small figure and in another sense no longer monstrous , because he was walking exactly as he had done when he was a very young child and most moving to Thomas , with his hands in his pockets and his back arched . |
| 50 | It 's hard for him to accept that everyone is different in every aspect of their biology — men have different sperm counts just as they have different numbers of hairs on their head or different eye colours . |
| 51 | But she 's getting carried away with this , though her friends are good enough but they 're all getting carried away as you would say with a bad crowd . |
| 52 | Do not lose interest and let the end of a sentence fade away as you scan your notes for the next remark . |
| 53 | If you get it right the engine will catch just as it slows almost to a halt and , to the accompaniment of a swirling grey cloud of oily smoke stage right , the hiccupping bass thumping will grow into the irregular loping lumpy grumble of a healthy Pratt 986 . |
| 54 | He neither claimed to know the butler 's name , nor anyone who had known him , but he would always insist the event occurred just as he told it . |
| 55 | A chorus of ‘ Noes ’ greeted the coroner 's demands though Athelstan noticed that the hospitallers looked away as they mumbled their responses . |
| 56 | Had it been made in the 1930s , Jimmy Stewart would have played Buck and Margaret Sullavan would have taken the Hoffman role , dying in the arms of the man she loves just as she reaches Miami . |
| 57 | She heard him returning just as she sat back to admire her handiwork . |
| 58 | ‘ I 'm naming the squad for the game against Norway on Thursday and , as I 've already indicated , he will be included just as he was in Spain early this month . |
| 59 | One was villagers being told that his visit had been cancelled just as he was arriving . |
| 60 | They were grouped just as he had left them , all looking warily after him . |