Example sentences of "[pron] as [pron] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dazed , overwhelmed with the need and intensity that had sizzled between them since they first met , Rachel did less than resist ; she actively acquiesced , arching her body against his as he slid on to the bed on top of her , and his hoarsely muttered words were bitter-sweet to her ears as he renewed the kiss , his heart thudding above her as his hands began to stroke and explore her passionately responsive body . |
| 2 | Luckily Wolves did n't last night … and Town keep Fraser Digby had springs in his as he pulled off the save of the game … |
| 3 | By this time Paddy seemed to be quite enjoying himself as we trotted on through the silent , thistle-filled fields edged with woods . |
| 4 | Which was true , Dillon admitted to himself as he glanced out of the rear window once more . |
| 5 | Knowing the others were depending on him , Luke kept his nerves to himself as he went round checking girths and bandages . |
| 6 | He sought the means to do something quite different , creating it out of himself as he went along — but he hoped for everyone : a way of looking that was a kind of worship . |
| 7 | In fact , he was getting a stronger grip on himself as he went along . |
| 8 | Tony was humming to himself as he drove along but Freddie sat silent , sulking over the raid that never was . |
| 9 | Maria did n't need to look at his face or see the confident way he carried himself as he stepped out of the lift with her . |
| 10 | Howard ca n't help laughing to himself as he goes down in the lift . |
| 11 | He began to recite a litany of his own successes to himself as he passed down the quiet , thickly carpeted corridors to the executive lift that went up to the eighteenth floor : a new apartment in the smart suburb of Beauséjour ; a smaller apartment in Montparnasse , with a most accommodating young mistress ; two cars , one the largest and latest registration Citroën Familiale ; a generous expense account , which was not queried too closely — he hoped was not queried too closely . |
| 12 | Joe turned away from her , thrusting his hands deep into his overcoat pockets , and he sounded very like Martin himself as he growled out , ‘ Suppose , suppose , suppose . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , well , ’ said the doctor to himself as he got up , ‘ we 'll see . |
| 14 | Could he fall in love with anyone else but Madeleine , he asked himself as he got out of bed and started to get dressed ? |
| 15 | For the present he seeks to compose himself as he cycles back down to The Randolph . |
| 16 | So he was one of the eighty-seven I Vologsky congratulated himself as he streaked back across the border , his mission completed . |
| 17 | We know that Jack is full of himself as he shows off about the fact that he can sing the top C♯ in a scale , which is very impractical . |
| 18 | ‘ Stuff and nonsense , ’ Captain Simcox muttered to himself as he threw back his head , downed the last of his whiskey and dried the ends of his thick red moustache with finger and thumb . |
| 19 | ‘ I shall check my unpleasant little visitor 's home in the morning , ’ said Moore to himself as he picked up his books from the floor . |
| 20 | ‘ Haw — ha — ha — ’ he gasped , putting one hand on another pump to steady himself as he bent over a little and looked at his feet , the other hand on a knee , his chest heaving . |
| 21 | Walking , for example , is an activity which as we go about in everyday life we have ceased to be aware of ; but when we dance the automatically performed gestures of walking are perceived anew . |
| 22 | You have a set of notes here now I 'm not gon na start at page one and work right through to page whatever it is erm they are there for you to take away for you to make notes during these two days er and for you to take away so that they 're they 're for revision and er there are as Bob 's just discovering pages where a I 'll ask you to make make specific notes er that I 'll supply to you as we go along . |
| 23 | I am enclosing tickets for the new play and as they are in the front stalls , I may see you as I come on , ; but do not expect me to salute you , you understand , as I shall be taken up with my part . |
| 24 | When knitting your samples did you notice that although the back bed was making the pattern , the design actually shows on the work facing you as it comes down between the beds ? |
| 25 | ALL RYE LIES BEFORE YOU as you sit round a grand , authentic scale model of this ancient town . |
| 26 | The houses were surrounded by gardens , some with a little front wall , and some with high laurel hedges , or holly trees that scratched you as you walked by . |
| 27 | Does this reach you as you come down from bed ? |
| 28 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
| 29 | It was rather a horrid mist ; you felt as if it might be concealing peering , grinning creatures who were being very careful to stay just out of sight , but who were creeping after you as you rode along , or who were tiptoeing on ahead of you , rubbing their hands together , waiting until you reached them … |
| 30 | Yeah , as you as you heat up the water the gases boil out of it , so if wanted to get rid of the chlorine in your water , boiling it gets rid of quite a lot , it forces the chlorine t to boil out . |