Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said you were using me just as she had been used . |
| 2 | Jack grew dizzy as he thought of it , seeing them sitting with tall glasses on a shady patio and , strangely , seeing them too as they were now , untouched by the hand of time . |
| 3 | I risked them seeing me so as to try to hear , but in fact by the time I could hear them they were shouting , which meant I could listen through the doorway without seeing them or being seen . |
| 4 | One of Assad 's closest confidantes ( and Monzer al-Kassar 's brother-in-law ) , Dubah was the cartel 's principal enforcer , frequently co-opting Ahmed Jibril 's PFLP — GC , the Abu Nidal faction and other Palestinian terrorist groups to do his dirty work as well as using them routinely as part-time agents in his ‘ legitimate ’ intelligence operations . |
| 5 | Bulls usually shake their heads erratically , lowering them vertically and twisting them sideways as they jerk them up to inflict the maximum injury . |
| 6 | purifying himself just as he is pure . |
| 7 | I hobbled over to collect the missing shoe and the dress detached itself a press stud at a time , disengaging itself completely as I bent — bottom to camera — to retrieve the shoe . |
| 8 | He straightened to kiss her with lazy possessiveness on her mouth , his tongue devouring her even as he was impatiently unbuckling the waist of his trousers , dispensing with the remainder of his clothes with rough masculine haste . |
| 9 | There was a man there now , a short tubby man , quite good-looking , Tabitha thought , checking him automatically as she entered . |
| 10 | She held him firmly , pumping his penis up and down slowly and rhythmically , twisting it slightly as she did so . |
| 11 | She cleared away , made coffee , then tapped on Penry 's door , opening it warily as he called her in . |
| 12 | He likes Basingstoke and as the youngest member of the cast of 16 , he is enjoying himself immensely as Young Charlie in Little Tramp — he reckons it is the best show he 's been in . |
| 13 | The tadpoles that develop from them are complete with mouths and external gills and they feed within the oviduct on tiny white flakes secreted from its walls , nibbling them just as though they were independent creatures browsing in a tiny pond . |
| 14 | While Uncle Ted sat outside in the car Jean charged straight into the bedroom , pushing me aside as I tried to protect my parents ' privacy . |
| 15 | Examples include warning someone so as to render police investigation fruitless ( Hinchcliffe v Sheldon [ 1955 ] 1 WLR 1207 ) and drinking alcohol after driving to frustrate the breath test procedure ( Ingleton v Dibble [ 1972 ] 1 QB 480 ) . |
| 16 | Not that there was a spare ounce of flesh on him , Robbie decided , eyeing him surreptitiously as she edged carefully around him . |
| 17 | " Irish , " she said at once , surprising him again as he left on his mission . |
| 18 | A suspicion kept niggling at the back of her mind , but she kept pushing it away as more than she could deal with . |
| 19 | He loved these allusions to river craft and the water , once describing himself approvingly as looking like a rough bargeman . |
| 20 | A ‘ Until recently , I used to steam press Hobby yarn for sewing up , pulling it lengthways as I steamed . |
| 21 | They do not only make their way through stuffed and clamoring doorways , but emerge from the unseen bowels of the pub , as though they have held themselves privately for days in the cellar , waiting with bated breath , presenting themselves only as the hour grows ripe . |
| 22 | We expected to gain insight into what these transitions mean to the individuals undergoing them so as to find ways of offering them understanding and support . |
| 23 | She snuggled down and began to drift to sleep , memories of Alain holding her here as she wept on that first day , memories of him bringing her up to bed after he had kissed her in the kitchen , fluttering like moths in the light , easing her into sleep . |
| 24 | It was like swimming in warm darkness , only her slender arms around his neck holding her upright as his hands caressed her body and moulded her against him . |
| 25 | Iran also used the HY-2 Silkworm missile , supplied by China , reportedly positioning it so as to overlook the Strait . |
| 26 | The fourth stage involves sifting through the data and evaluating it so as to collate and analyse it in such a way as to provide useful information rather than a mass of unrelated facts or figures . |
| 27 | ‘ The persistent concern to increase councillor calibre through reorganization ’ , he says , ‘ makes it equally clear that the essential object of reorganization has been to make local government more functional for dominant interests , by restructuring it so as to facilitate their direct control of its expenditure and interventions ’ ( 1979 , p. 245 ) . |
| 28 | Another charge of a similar kind is that Barth was excessively concerned with ontology , with the rationale of the being of God ; that he misused biblical terms and concepts on the one hand by treating them semi-literally as ‘ ontic ’ , as descriptive of the way things actually are when they are often pictorial or metaphorical , and on the other hand by turning the whole of Scripture into a vast allegory of Jesus Christ ; and that this reflected a Platonist streak in his thinking which encouraged an unbalanced concentration on eternal realities rather than the actual world of concrete life and experience . |
| 29 | they just want to start it , cos once they start getting through that 's when they start getting wanting decent , wanting to eat more and I mean I make them clean theirs thoroughly , they 're really good at doing them actually as well |
| 30 | This policy indicated that princes were ceasing to regard their demesnes , those ragbags of rights and scattered pieces of land , chiefly as means of buying support , whether on earth or in heaven , and were viewing them instead as permanent assets , to be cultivated in a more business-like fashion . |