Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A strong wind chased the rain over their heads and away as they approached , and the trees tossing beside the walls made the outline of the huge house appear to tremble , as if it might roll over and crush all the homes of the people who depended on it . |
| 2 | Ushering her inside , he walked into his study and just as he was about to close the door she remembered she had n't settled up with him . |
| 3 | So they got him settled in the bottom of the boat and just as they were putting this tarpaulin over him , and getting ready to set off , the one man He heard the one man saying to the other , he says , Right , forty miles a wee stroke of the oars . |
| 4 | for one pound and unfortunately as he the option of the contract and on a number of occasions question whether he should exercise the option . |
| 5 | I have seen at long last that I need to be free of my beloved mistress and even as I write that word it is hollow for how can I love one who no longer has the least regard for me ? |
| 6 | Yeah he got trapped in a car park and he could n't get out for ages and ages and then as he got out he crashed into another car . |
| 7 | She gave him a rather languid finger wave and just as she disappeared under the wing float , he then realised she was only wearing a black sporran . |
| 8 | They have since left and had families and now as I am retiring they are all back . |
| 9 | It is 2 ½ years since he lost in a world title match to Michael Spinks and just as he did after a similar fight , with Larry Holmes , he brooded for a long time , finally overcame problems with drugs , and went into business , part of which was as a fight promoter . |
| 10 | It is 2 ½ years since he lost in a world title match to Michael Spinks and just as he did after a similar fight , with Larry Holmes , he brooded for a long time , finally overcame problems with drugs , and went into business , part of which was as a fight promoter . |
| 11 | Lamond was talking to some people and then as he was leaving he came by me and said , ‘ But , you know , it was n't all as beautiful as you might imagine ! ’ |
| 12 | Now one can make judgments about means and indeed as I was saying in my last lecture , the actual capability of the weapons you have can only really be found out when you use them and then you can see , very often , that they are in fact ineffective . |
| 13 | Now one can make judgments about means and indeed as I was saying in my last lecture , the actual capability of the weapons you have can only really be found out when you use them and then you can see , very often , that they are in fact ineffective . |
| 14 | Try saying big glass as you would say big game and then as you would say big deal . |
| 15 | The scene was set for a movie genius but what was important for the history of the movies was that the genius who emerged to push the medium and the industry into a new era was a self-educated romantic whose values and ideas had not been provided by any distinctive intellectual tradition or urban political party but rather had emerged first out of his Southern , rural , Methodist past and then as he had drifted through a rapidly changing America . |
| 16 | I finished the song and only as I left the stage did I realise I had wet myself with fear . |
| 17 | I put the branch two-handed over my right shoulder as I run up to them , jump over a small bush and then as I land at their side bring the branch swinging down . |
| 18 | And whilst you 've heard comment from Mr last week about the County Surveyor 's view that the capacity of the radials really outside the City and also as they enter the City , the key impact within the City of York is on the inner ring road , because all the traffic tends to end up there . |
| 19 | Then you have the prosecution barrister and there as you know there has been some quite disgraceful behaviour by prosecution barristers , and then the defence council as well . |
| 20 | His earlier complete reversal of his position had done little for his credibility and now as he went after a tax cut his touch was decidedly uncertain . |
| 21 | But the anointing , which ye had received of him , abideth in you , and ye need not have any man teach you but as the same anointed teachers you all things , and is truth and is no lie and even as it have taught you , ye shall abide in him . |
| 22 | I believe it to be a defective understanding of the Christian doctrine of creation and also as we shall see later , of the social dimension of the gospel . |
| 23 | In West Yorkshire to the South we have similar problems of inner city decline and there as we understand it the authorities wish to cater for their housing needs . |
| 24 | A civil society is a natural organism like the family and just as we 're born into a family , so we 're born into a civil society . |
| 25 | The word ‘ magical ’ crops up time and again as she talks about her work . |
| 26 | The word ‘ magical ’ crops up time and again as she talks about her work . |
| 27 | In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken . |
| 28 | Er and they developed these skills , as I said earlier , basically for their husbands for use in inclement weather and gradually as they obviously got to m make more and more they got these to trade . |