Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite these optimistic thoughts , and his excitement , Ybreska stopped singing abruptly as he began to walk along the track . |
| 2 | Like Maxwell , smoothy Hunter tried to come across as everyone 's friend , especially at Christmas when , dressed as Santa , he handed gifts to children of staff . |
| 3 | I stopped playing just as the church door burst open and a very irate Officer came charging along the pews in my direction , his eyes bulging out of their sockets . |
| 4 | Everyone hastened to stand aside as he made for the door . |
| 5 | Ryan 's eyes seemed to bulge even as she watched , and she threw herself frantically towards them . |
| 6 | It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day . |
| 7 | Mr Lewis 's smile seemed to broaden slightly as he said this . |
| 8 | He had a big room on the second floor of the house at Strathspeld ; we 'd played here as kids , making models , fighting wars with toy soldiers and the train set and Airfix tanks and forts made from Lego ; we 'd conducted experiments with our chemistry sets , raced our Scalextric cars , flown gliders out the window down to the lawn and shot at targets in the gardens with our air rifles and killed a couple of birds and smoked a few packets of illicit fags from the same window . |
| 9 | It says much for Robertson that in spite of the general disorder he still contrived to look dangerous and Craig Levein and Derek Ferguson strove to play properly as the rubbish raged around them . |
| 10 | In so far as the situation changed in the 1790s it was to the extent that such payments became systematised both as a regular basis for relieving poverty and in being tied to a scale of bread prices . |
| 11 | It was also noticed that he ceased to whistle unconsciously as he walked up the aisle from the vestry . |
| 12 | ‘ Ca n't take it , huh ? ’ she teased , then yelped and began laughing helplessly as he yanked her up and rolled to hold her captive beneath him . |
| 13 | As the fumes cleared from his brain he began to speculate seriously as to how the iconograph worked . |
| 14 | But because it only ran at 8MHz , it began to lag behind as processors got faster . |
| 15 | Shortly before his fifteenth birthday he began boxing professionally as ‘ Kid ’ Lewis at the Judaean Club , Whitechapel , where he had nearly fifty contests , and when Premierland opened he boxed there thirty-five times in 1912 . |
| 16 | From a relatively flat and gentle start our clearly marked path soon began to lead upwards as we rounded the corner by South Eggardon Farm . |
| 17 | Also as usual , they began to talk differently as Mrs Bouverie approached , louder , more self-consciously , and the younger two , in their all-weather uniform of jeans , and bare feet thrust into stiletto-heeled shoes , put their cigarettes behind their backs . |
| 18 | The Doctor began to talk faster as the pain built up . |
| 19 | Coming back round by the house for the third time , she got quite above herself , and the bike began to wobble alarmingly as she fought to control it . |
| 20 | Grant felt a gentle lethargy creeping over him , and the aches and pains of his battered body began to ebb away as the drug started to take effect . |
| 21 | Continents began to drift apart as the molten basaltic lava welled up from cracks in the seabed ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 22 | Darkness began to descend quickly as rain-filled clouds turned the sky to a menacing black void . |
| 23 | It began to rain steadily as they stopped the jeep where the track met two barely discernible footpaths . |
| 24 | The spa fad began to die just as iron ore was discovered on Teesside during the middle of the last century . |
| 25 | The audience began to trickle away as he told a series of long , rambling stories to which he forgot the punchlines , conducted a hesitant affair with somebody else 's wife , and announced half-baked plans for an ideal world . |
| 26 | Doreen began to laugh happily as these facts became confirmed in her mind . |
| 27 | Bayonets were carefully sharpened then fixed ; hearts began to beat faster as the minutes passed , and they waited in silence for the command to advance . |
| 28 | It now became known locally as Playne 's Little Mill , run by Peter Playne and Co . |
| 29 | The single-deckers became known appropriately as railcoaches , a name which placed them firmly to the forefront of modern transport . |
| 30 | She started to come again as he tried to slide his whole hand deep into her soaked vagina . |