Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There has been a call , monsieur , ’ he announced , taking the luggage and casting one interested look at Jenna with dark eyes that widened perceptibly as he noticed her ash-blonde hair , almost silvery in the sunlight . |
| 2 | And they are habitat for the millions of mallard duck , Canada geese , American widgeon and other waterfowl that pause here as they cruise the Atlantic Flyway toward warmer climes each autumn . |
| 3 | An achievement that means more as the years go by . |
| 4 | His room was in the oldest part of the Castle , along a narrow galleried landing , with thick dark hangings that stirred faintly as she passed . |
| 5 | Some would take up for ever more space than they were entitled to — like my mother 's wedding dress , shrouded in sheet linen , suspended in time , uncrushed by the other more workaday but less significant garments that crowded together as though they were cold , waiting in a queue , inmates of a zenana to be taken up or not at the Pasha 's pleasure , promiscuously gathered , at the mercy of their owner . |
| 6 | Said they 're not like the old ones that go like as though they 're welded |
| 7 | Detailed calculations show that the emitted particles have a thermal spectrum corresponding to a temperature that increases rapidly as the mass of the black hole decreases . |