Example sentences of "[verb] as [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quiver ran through her which heated as it travelled through her body and which he must have noticed , for he smiled mockingly at her . |
| 2 | At a very early stage the apostle Paul was confronted by opposed parties , the one contending that the freedom of the Spirit so emancipated them from social convention that they could act as they pleased , especially in sexual indulgence , the other with more plausibility holding that the life of the Spirit required renunciation of marriage . |
| 3 | It will act as it did last Friday , with determination and sensitivity . |
| 4 | To test for this intention we would have to establish whether he would act as he did in situations where he had no reason to believe that he could thereby induce the false belief in question . |
| 5 | His clothes steaming as he bent to light a cigarette from a blazing splinter on the open hearth . |
| 6 | Both O'Flaherty and Sherington were severely wounded as they got into the warehouse , but with grim determination they staggered clear , leaving a few equally determined Germans in an inner room of the building . |
| 7 | This outstanding man had been seconded from the Royal Welch Fusiliers to serve as Consul at Adana in Turkey , where he behaved with courage and firmness during the Armenian massacres , rescuing several hundred people before he himself was wounded as he rode round the town . |
| 8 | Hitoshi Motoshima , the mayor of Nagasaki , was shot in the back and seriously wounded as he emerged from Nagasaki City Hall on Jan. 18 . |
| 9 | Already , as Luke raised her hand to his mouth , response was quivering to life deep down in the heart of her femininity , flickering and then leaping as she felt the sensual brush of his lips . |
| 10 | His gentleness was fake , she knew that now , his face distorted as she looked at him . |
| 11 | She heard her name called from below , the sound distorted as it echoed from the depths . |
| 12 | ‘ Not much , ’ he dismissed as he carried on walking towards the cottage . |
| 13 | Daunton asks the searching question : ‘ did the private market as it existed in the decades before the First World War fall , or was it pushed ? ’ |
| 14 | He saw the man 's limbs , tightly clenched as he drove his horse towards the Cutcherry guns , suddenly relax as if something inside him had snapped . |
| 15 | His buttocks were clenched as he moved towards her . |
| 16 | She was silent for a moment , and my stomach clenched as I saw her face soften , her eyes grow dreamy . |
| 17 | Maria 's heart clenched as she slanted a look at his grim countenance . |
| 18 | This picture of a universe that started off very hot and cooled as it expanded is in agreement with all the observational evidence that we have today . |
| 19 | Franca observed sadly , but without surprise , that her strange feeling of love for Patrick had waned and finally abated as he continued steadily to come to life . |
| 20 | Maria 's anger abated as she realised how much the answer meant to him . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh ’ and ‘ ouch ’ I howled as I hit the alleyway . |
| 22 | His jaw cracked as he gave another cavernous yawn . |
| 23 | Katherine 's voice cracked as she called her daughter 's name , and she repeated herself , more softly this time . |
| 24 | His voice cracked as it rose in pitch . |
| 25 | Mayakovsky 's poem ‘ An Amazing Adventure of Vladimir Mayakovsky ’ surfaced as he worked . |
| 26 | She marvelled even more though when Cara 's basic efficiency surfaced as she declared , ‘ By my calculations you 'll still have time to get down to Dover after you 've dropped me off at the airport . ’ |
| 27 | The chimes of bells which stood in every district of the city were being rung as they sat down — both because the ringers had been amply bribed and because they thought it politic to honour Artai and his chief supporter — and a small orchestra of trumpets and tambours had been hired by a steward and was accommodated in the yard , so that Burun 's speech of welcome to his guests , as well as their affable replies , were conducted with much opening and shutting of mouths and a deal of dumb show . |
| 28 | Dulé stalked the ladder again , and circled it , turning it with him as he paced ; again he bowed to his adversary , again he placed a foot on the lowest rung as it stood up held light by his right hand . |
| 29 | Otley objected as he waited under the trees with his bunch of Brits . |
| 30 | She could see a couple of the other models standing near the buffet table , laughing as they accepted glasses of champagne from attentive gentlemen . |