Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Peru , for example , people from the Andes are moving down and across as a front into the Amazon plain . |
| 2 | Such experiences of sexual liberation bear witness to the socially constructed ‘ nature ’ of identity with respect both to its contingency and its resilience : on the one hand the self can be and is experienced as radically different in the space of the other ; on the other hand it the extinction of self is the precondition of passing into the ecstasy with and through the other , it is an extinction which has to be replayed over and again as a constitutive part of sexual ecstasy itself . |
| 3 | If this , combined with its vivid display of black and white fur , does not deter the enemy , it may then start swaying its body back and forth as if cranking itself up for action . |
| 4 | The power chair hummed back and forth as if the mechanical subhuman was advancing towards its argument , then retreating ; and the scrimshaws hanging from it rattled like a sorcerer 's skirt of juju bones . |
| 5 | We 're almost there , ’ Robyn pleaded aloud as she peered through the rain-soaked windscreen , between the wipers that were belting furiously back and forth as if their lives depended on it . |