Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he re-crossed the clearing , he barely spared a glance at the three lifeless black shapes scattered there as he sped past . |
| 2 | You can spend quite a lot of time subsequently getting the machine configured just as you want it but at least you can relax in the knowledge that it all works and the difficult part of the upgrade is well and truly over . |
| 3 | Ronni kept her gaze fixed seawards as her stomach leapt inside her , remembering that dance they 'd shared together . |
| 4 | Range after range of mountains passed beneath as we bucked and swayed on the final approach . |
| 5 | His brow creased ominously as he pulled his lean length upright . |
| 6 | Yet swallows plummeted past and clouds of doves wheeled overhead as we headed west along a cliff-top path round Wardija Point to Dwejra Bay . |
| 7 | A chorus of ‘ Noes ’ greeted the coroner 's demands though Athelstan noticed that the hospitallers looked away as they mumbled their responses . |
| 8 | There are gas masks , ration books , lots of soldiers , sailors and airmen and hordes of pretty girls , plus some ladies dressed just as I remember my own mother and Auntie Ethel ! |
| 9 | Her heart cramped now as she thought of her husband 's folly in plumping for the easy money , as it had seemed , after three bad harvests — his airy promise to come home soon — his failure to return after his regiment had been disbanded in Madras and left to make its own way back round half the world . |
| 10 | People 's faces swung sideways as I tunnelled backwards into my cab . |
| 11 | THE WOMEN LEFT BEHIND AS THEIR BOYFRIENDS DIED |
| 12 | Ana called gaily as she heard him . |