Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'VE never been so moved before as I was when I saw on TV the rescue of a boy who had collapsed on his way to a feeding centre in Somalia . |
| 2 | ‘ You , Sir , ’ he wrote to Sir John Franklin , ‘ fully understand this pleasure particularly when one 's visits are directed to a fresh field abounding with novelties ; if I find my labors as much rewarded here as they have been in V. D. Land , I shall consider myself amply paid . ’ |
| 3 | In Wilson 's first defeat by a British competitor over this distance for 2½ years the two swam neck and neck for just over half the race before Akers suddenly pulled ahead as he searched for an Olympic qualifying time . |
| 4 | Once , the Everqueen could easily have banished the daemon , but her power was much reduced even as her land was ravaged . |
| 5 | The news about him only arrived just as I was leaving . |
| 6 | Although they have a base in Hanover House , they are rarely seen here as their workload of visits increases . |
| 7 | As was often common after breech births , the afterbirth had not come away as it should have done , and Effie had been so torn during the birth , Dr Neil told her later , that she had started to bleed , and then the bleeding had turned into a violent haemorrhaging , the passage of the afterbirth completing the damage already done to Effie 's poor little body . |
| 8 | It could also explain why the goats have not increased there as they so often have on other islands . |
| 9 | The depressing view of the unsightly pylons marching across the valley floor , heavy traffic thundering along the Woodhead Pass road , five reservoirs and a disused railway line , is soon left behind as you negotiate the tussocky grass slops below Long Gutter Edge towards the entrance to Wildboar Clough . |
| 10 | British television is almost as widely admired abroad as it is at home . |
| 11 | The heavy furniture of the lobby was still arranged exactly as it had been in 1950 . |
| 12 | His head still spun slightly as he followed the words and looked upwards intermittently to see by the expression of a face if someone had forgotten their lines . |
| 13 | The immediate sense-experiences with which his method begins are not part of a systematic record , and are very quickly left behind as one digs below their surface . |
| 14 | Roman 's lips curled slightly ; he started to walk and the stream of people automatically flowed apart as they approached , leaving them a clear path . |
| 15 | As he walked back out into the foyer , the girls automatically straightened again as he passed them . |
| 16 | Damon Hill 's challenge in his first race with the Williams team also ended early as he collided with Italian Alessandro Zanardi in a Lotus after 16 laps . |
| 17 | Ligier team-mate Martin Brundle 's had a luckless 100th grand prix and was forced to retire and Damon Hill 's challenge in his first race with Williams also ended early as he collided with Italian Alessandro Zanardi in a Lotus after 16 laps . |
| 18 | Is it strange going thousands of miles away to Australia and finding out that you 're as known there as you are on this island ? |
| 19 | PROVINCIAL LIFE as such is now left behind as we turn to various types of connections between it and the political and cultural centres of Russia . |
| 20 | He let his hand wander a little , and got it petulantly pushed away as she heaved herself out of the clutches of the chesterfield 's upholstery , and sat up on the edge of it . |
| 21 | But I have n't gone really as I hoped cos I 'd envisaged having the membership list with sort of names of who 'll make cakes , who 'll help on the stall and then know who to phone |
| 22 | PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AS THERE MAY NOW BE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |
| 23 | PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AS THERE MAY NOW BE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |
| 24 | PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AS THERE MAY NOW BE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION . |
| 25 | He believes that during the inter-war years the three sections of the upper class virtually fused together as they all became increasingly involved in the growing industrial enterprises . |
| 26 | He turned on her now , but was almost pushed aside as someone came out of the shop . |
| 27 | But his gaze was rigidly fixed ahead as he steered the little helicopter up the meandering Thames . |
| 28 | Privacy was not a word in our vocabulary , and postcards and diaries were mercilessly read aloud as we trekked through the jungle of North Borneo . |
| 29 | Although the Panopticon was never built exactly as he designed it ( a modified version was constructed at Millbank on the Thames and opened , with extremely poor results , in 1917 ) , imprisonment rapidly became the pre-eminent method of punishment . |
| 30 | A complete skull is therefore defined here as one preserving intact the maxilla and frontal bones and at least half of the cranial vault ( Fig. 3.11 ) . |