Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It now became known locally as Playne 's Little Mill , run by Peter Playne and Co . |
| 5 | The single-deckers became known appropriately as railcoaches , a name which placed them firmly to the forefront of modern transport . |
| 6 | His sister had come over with her family from the next valley and was standing just behind him ; Shaun had flown home as well , a taller , broader Wayne-that-might-have-been , but he had n't yet come out of the church . |
| 7 | It was reported that 200,000 of these had registered officially as addicts by the July 23 deadline set by the government at the start of its new anti-drugs campaign begun in early January 1989 . |
| 8 | They made a gallant array next morning as they marched off from the Burgh Muir in great companies , cavalry and infantry , banners and standards waving , heraldic surcoats colourful , armour glinting in the early morning sunlight , trumpets blowing ; but Ramsay reminded himself that Mar 's army had looked fully as fine and had marched only to disaster . |
| 9 | He had come here as she guessed he would . |
| 10 | Sarella , half in and half out of the jeep , had frozen suddenly as her eyes met those of her host . |
| 11 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 12 | Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river . |
| 13 | They 'll certainly let you in after this performance , " the Magistrate had said ironically as Mr Bradley made one or two more last-minute arrangements with Saint Peter for the opening of the celestial gates . |
| 14 | Its circulation had grown enormously as immigrants flooded into Tollemarche , and it had expanded into the shops which flanked it on either side . |
| 15 | Lydia had once read a women's-magazine-type romance in book-form and her mind had felt then as her stomach felt now — ever so slightly destroyed . |
| 16 | So , as I say , the Muse of History laughed when Britain , which had risen almost as one man to take the Falklands from the Argentine , then quite logically watched , passive and embarrassed , while the United States occupied the independent sovereign state of Grenada . |
| 17 | She was thinking about a telephone call which she had answered just as she was about to leave the house . |
| 18 | He also told a press conference that Sisulu and the other former prisoners , on their return to South Africa , were to make a " direct intervention " in the " fratricidal strife " in Natal ; several hundred people had died there as supporters of the United Democratic Front clashed repeatedly with members of Inkatha , the predominantly Zulu organization led by Chief Mangosuthu ( Gatsha ) Buthelezi . |
| 19 | There , for 20 years , she had watched helplessly as that country 's wildlife was systematically hunted to extinction . |
| 20 | The doors had opened wide as he reached them . |
| 21 | Molly 's sleep had been deep and dreamless but she woke up early , saw Hugh unconscious beside her and replaced the sheet he had kicked away as she might cover one of the children . |
| 22 | The exiles from Ecuador — more accustomed to jungle and soggy heat — had gasped unashamedly as we rounded the bend above the cliffs , and they remained quite mute , awestruck , as we circled down into town and parked outside the Hotel Eberhardt for a dish of the king crab , centolla , and a mug of beer . |
| 23 | The great metal roof-tree which held the house together had bent inwards as though from some giant 's blow , and listening , Rachel could hear tiles still slithering down the slope and crashing into the street forty feet below . |
| 24 | The alert last night had sounded just as Londoners were beginning to think that just for once there would be no air raid , and the first bombs fell as the last notes of the sirens gave way to an uneasy , brooding silence . |
| 25 | It had sounded almost as though the tunnel itself were enjoying some deeper , darker joke whose significance not even his father had fully understood . |
| 26 | Something had sparked into life when they had first set eyes on each other , though , and even Julius 's self-control had melted away as the spark had ignited a flame , and then a fire . |
| 27 | That time , Nicholas had arrived late as well . |
| 28 | One who had arrived there as the convulsions started was Charlton Heston who achieved almost instant stardom and became especially known for his appearances in the biblical epics . |
| 29 | And he walked away from the manor as though he had arrived there as empty-handed , half-naked and alone as when he left . |
| 30 | Boris Gidaspov , the Leningrad city and oblast first secretary who had emerged recently as one of the most prominent party conservatives , said that " complete disorganization of the executive mechanism " was responsible for growing destabilization in the country . |