Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning soldiers were spat on as they walked off their planes and the Death Valley sized rift that ensued still causes tensions among many . |
| 2 | To Henry , the idea of being cheered on as you croaked , by Elinor , Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet , his mother , her mother , Maisie and anyone else with a few hours to spare was almost completely repulsive . |
| 3 | He turned his head a little and she saw the blue glass flowering from his skull , its silken stamens drooping elegantly as he moved . |
| 4 | He or she will be obliged to wait politely as you go about your task , which you can time to complete at the same moment you recover the skill of breathing in and out . |
| 5 | She fought bitterly as he came back to her . |
| 6 | Fairley asked politely as they took the floor . |
| 7 | Another task force member , a young Indonesian zoologist named Jack West , added , ‘ Also if we wait until next year and the logging goes on as it has , there will be no trees left to keep the elephants on their trail . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ 'T IS really nought , ’ she whispered nervously as he reached her and held out his hand . |
| 9 | Then Mum went over and I gazed on as she replaced the sheet and then rolled Granny onto her side and began feeling under the mattress . |
| 10 | With a sudden surge of defiance she tossed back her head , sending her long wheat-coloured mane rippling over her shoulders , her eyes flashing challengingly as she pulled the microphone free of its stand . |
| 11 | ‘ Who did you say you were looking for ? ’ she asked suspiciously as I pulled up a weatherbeaten bus seat . |
| 12 | These are strategic alternatives which would capitalize on George and Marie 's strengths and minimize their weaknesses : it is the business of a case study answer to identify these alternatives and not just to assume that the proprietors have to go on as they started . |
| 13 | Lucy , all this time , was still sitting on the verandah surrounded by her cartridge-making tools and weeping bitterly as she looked at the neat rows of cartridges she had made and which were no longer needed . |
| 14 | ‘ Go on where ? ’ she asked bitterly as she stared blindly through the mud-spattered windscreen . |
| 15 | ‘ How long 's this been going on ? ’ she asked gently as she cleaned up a nasty cut on the woman 's arm . |
| 16 | ‘ Fred Proctor asked him to sit down as he had been speaking long enough . |
| 17 | Caroline whispered fiercely as she dropped the brush to the top of the vanity table . |
| 18 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , such a day , and to stroll along as I did so many times in the old days . |
| 20 | The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation . |
| 21 | Weaker areas are exposed dramatically when the market turns down as it did during 1992 . |
| 22 | ‘ No … ’ she whispered tremulously as he marched across the sand towards the dark lawns leading up to the cottage . |
| 23 | Caroline had no choice but to trot alongside as he strode towards an arched doorway . |
| 24 | One reason for this is that our metabolic rate slows down as we age . |
| 25 | The flowers had dripped all down his trousers , his face was frighteningly lacking in colour , he was trembling , and his lips seemed to be sticking together as he tried to speak . |
| 26 | They drove back to Alnwick in complete silence , broken only as they reached their suite , by Roman . |
| 27 | Do you want two piece construction to go in as they 've done it , or just one trip in the end ? |
| 28 | A screw that goes in as you turn it clockwise is ( arbitrarily ) called right-handed . |
| 29 | ‘ But not me ? ’ she asked dubiously as she held it up against her . |
| 30 | The people filling the board room steamed gently as they sat huddled together on the rows of chairs arranged neatly in front of the big desk . |