Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dubois asked slowly as the Doctor ushered him and Petion back out . |
| 2 | He rose politely as the waiter ferried her across the room . |
| 3 | The torch beam jerked suddenly as the Baronne moved her hand in an irritable gesture of negation . |
| 4 | According to the development officers ' monthly reports to their supervisor the distribution of their work could be broken down into roughly three or four elements ( though the amount of time spent on each changed somewhat as the project progressed ) . |
| 5 | Marked variations have also occurred in the timing of the studies following infarction , the site of stimulation and protocol used especially as the more aggressive protocols using increased current strength and extra stimuli number are known to have an increased sensitivity for the detection of clinical ventricular arrhythmias . |
| 6 | For much of the time the only sounds were the chatter of birds and the humming of my bike 's knobbly tyres , but the wide panoramas changed constantly as the countryside unfolded around me . |
| 7 | He dropped the gun from his shoulder again , and bent over as the laughter wracked him , all the more powerful for being silent , for being trapped inside . |
| 8 | They switched on the car 's headlights as a beacon ; but , all of a sudden , as the Prince and his companions were half-way across the water , the lights swung round and moved away as the vehicle set off down the glen . |
| 9 | Belinda saw the gesture , winced inwardly as the image stabbed at her feelings , and despised herself for wasting her emotions in this way . |
| 10 | In early April the excitement built up as the first shoals of mackerel were expected . |
| 11 | A pair of arms locked around his waist and the whole world jerked sideways as the dragon rose out of its long dive , claws grazing just for a moment the topmost rock on the Wyrmberg 's noisome floor . |
| 12 | The bus stopped sharply as the driver heard the footsteps above him and listened . |
| 13 | The bright light of Provence changed theatrically as the sky darkened to grey , then turned slate purple . |
| 14 | Runner jumped violently as Joe slapped him on his shoulder , but moved passively as the landlord helped him to the door . |
| 15 | ‘ Yao-hoo ’ he let out as the record ended . |
| 16 | Overhead , lightning flickered frequently as the static electricity accumulating in the ash cloud discharged . |
| 17 | The fingers clenched jerkily as the arms flailed at the sides of the grave , tossing dirt aside in an attempt to gain a purchase on the soft earth . |
| 18 | Carrington raised the bottle , swallowed , and sneezed hard as the fumes went up his nose . |
| 19 | The engine noise changed abruptly as the car leapt forward . |
| 20 | One of the men bristled visibly as the others smiled their pleasant responses . |
| 21 | The lights flickered briefly as the train entered a tunnel . |
| 22 | Smoothly , Karlheinz Pintsch panned round as the aircraft passed him , sweeping down the runway . |
| 23 | There is a danger that the new system merely ‘ computerises ’ the clerical system used previously as the analysis phase is often neglected . |
| 24 | Intel says it saw strong demand in the US and Japan , where orders rose significantly as the market was stimulated by lower personal computer prices . |
| 25 | Cranston stopped and , half crouching , retched violently as the true horror of what he had seen seized his mind and wrung his stomach as if it was a wet rag . |
| 26 | There was no monolithic Victorian evolutionism , only a confusing mixture of different and sometimes hostile interpretations , which changed significantly as the century progressed towards its close . |
| 27 | The person who suffered most as the result of the tension was poor Ma . |
| 28 | The protectorate agreement came just as the Russo-Japanese War seemed to suggest new hopes of Asian independence , and Japan 's claim to champion the cause of Korean modernization and Asian nationalism was rendered particularly insulting by the brutality with which all manifestations of anti-Japanese sentiment were suppressed under the protectorate . |
| 29 | The postman came just as the grownups were moving into the parlour . |
| 30 | The view of the gulley receded rapidly as the surviving Counsellor retreated towards its wider end . |