Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only hung around as long as I did thinking Maggie might come and see me , which she did , ’ Charlie replied . |
| 2 | Avoiding their curious glances , she walked round to the hardware section and tried to shut her ears to the whispered conversations that suddenly broke out as soon as she was out of sight . |
| 3 | She only looked up as Felipe reined in beside her . |
| 4 | and er , it was thirty six pound , but she knocked another three pound off cos there was a little mark on the front which just sponged off as soon as I got home . |
| 5 | I think I 'd had I finished my breakfast when , no I think you just came just as I was about to take my first mouthful of cereal . |
| 6 | She just toppled over as I touched her . |
| 7 | Despite this inconclusive beginning , the evening soon livened up as guests swooped down like scenic railway trains on the trays of grilled prawns and champagne . |
| 8 | The newspaper-reading public — and the television audience of some 40 million who had never before been treated to live pictures from the Californian coast — revelled in the pictures of Gromyko and his polish and Czech ‘ wrecking crew ’ ( as John Foster Dulles put it ) who complained , harangued , sulked and finally walked out as amendment after amendment was defeated by the other conferees . |
| 9 | We were handed Turkish delights across the ward , and were read to and generally watched over as , I should think , the chief wife watched over the ladies of the harem . |
| 10 | He scarcely looked up as Melanie came in . |
| 11 | And yesterday the princess 's lower lip trembled and she nervously turned away as Sebastian sang the poignant opening lines of the 1989 hit , Right Here Waiting For You . |
| 12 | Running behind him just seemed effortless and when I kicked he did n't go with me and he gradually dropped back as I kept the pace up . ’ |
| 13 | The jump in share prices was comparable to yesterday 's but the euphoria quickly ebbed away as it dawned on investors that — in terms of the immediate prospects — not much had changed and what had changed was not entirely for the better . |
| 14 | Her face was still sulky and she still sniffed occasionally as she put her feet to the ground . |
| 15 | The rumbling of conversation gradually died down as DI Frank Gregson got to his feet . |
| 16 | She hardly looked up as we entered but continued to stir the huge , black pot which hung above the flames , now and again throwing in a scattering of herbs and the occasional piece of raw , fatty meat . |
| 17 | The crash also happened just as NMW was expanding into other markets . |
| 18 | I hung my head , which I also nodded sombrely as I hung it . |
| 19 | For example , the most recent announcement is of a 50% cut in shop-front advertising — something the industry probably wanted anyway as the amount of clutter on shops was becoming counterproductive . |
| 20 | Out of the seven Africans who now took over as Ministers , all except one were Cpp members : the odd man out was J.A . |
| 21 | ( See further Appendix B. ) A slight amendment is therefore needed to the formulae given in ( 37 ) , with the intensional patterns realised by the surface structures containing ordinary attributives , predicatives , and postnominal attributives now represented respectively as in : ( 75 ) |
| 22 | Esther was saying , returning to the guest list , recalling scores not settled a quarter of a century ago : ‘ Yes , the very man , he 's a something or other in the DES , he 's a very important chap now , you ought to have a go at him , ’ Liz replied , and as she spoke the doorbell rang , and there was the first guest , on the dot of two minutes past nine o'clock , tall , thin , grey , anxious , clutching a bunch of yellow roses , ex-priest turned analyst Joseph O'Toole , standing stranded on the black and white marble tiles , not knowing where to turn , how to divest himself of his coat , to whom to deliver his roses , a lost man , gazing mildly at the unexpected butler , waiting for the arrival of familiar Liz Headleand , who advanced upon him , took the roses , embraced him , restored him , and led him in to Charles , Alix and Esther : a quarter of an hour earlier she had predicted the time of his arrival accurately , to the minute , and now smiled triumphantly as she effected the introductions , a smile of complicity in which Joseph O'Toole , who was acutely aware of his own punctuality problem , was able with a pleasant relief to share . |
| 23 | Even those who had arrived in early 1939 or before did not as yet have complete command of English and this made communication with their new and sometimes reluctant hosts difficult . |
| 24 | Because they are spiritually deaf the brother Rutherford I think it was years ago described then as dumb dog , what does that |
| 25 | He even smiled bravely as he carried on recording a show for the new series of You Bet , starting on Friday . |
| 26 | His head fell to the side ; his cheek to the canvas of the deck chair , and his feet slowly slipped forward as he fell into a deep sleep . |
| 27 | The track wound past one last stand of trees , then petered out as it reached a wide , open space at the top of the hill . |
| 28 | She yelled out loud , then shouted again as strong fingers closed round her arms . |
| 29 | But while you 're doing that , I 'm trying to get the wages made up for — ’ began Josh , then exploded irritably as someone knocked at the office door : ‘ What is it now ? ’ |
| 30 | Martha , whose head was as strong as her sister 's , sometimes climbed up as well , and , clinging on about a foot lower down , read aloud from a horror comic . |