Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | US officials in Jakarta furnished the names of about 5,000 Communist activists to the Indonesian Army and then checked off the names as the army reported that the individuals had been killed or captured . |
| 2 | FLURRY OF SLURRY : The liquid dung flies through the air as revenge-seeking Dave launches his attack |
| 3 | He was fumbling for a handkerchief as she hurried up . |
| 4 | ’ He checked off the targets as they flared . |
| 5 | Bales had been arranged for the jury as they had been on the night of the fire . |
| 6 | I gabbled for a second as shock and rage choked my words . |
| 7 | My first memory is of falling off a rather high bed at the age of three years on the evening that my parents had moved into a house near the top of Hampstead Heath , and of my Father going off on his bicycle to search for a doctor as I had cut my head . |
| 8 | The need to plan for the staffing as well as the financing of the social services does not apply only to the professionals : we can not decide to double our output of houses in order to deal with housing shortages and obsolescence without regard to the manpower resources of the building industry as well as to the availability of suitable architects . |
| 9 | She then took control and taxied off the runway as three Canadian Air Force F11s blasted into the sky on a training mission farther to the north . |
| 10 | Indeed it may well be intended as a statement as to what should be the case in the eschaton . |
| 11 | Sarella 's heart was wrung for a moment as she remembered how hard Marc was on his younger brother . |
| 12 | Inside , maids in black took coats for tickets , and told everyone to go through the lounge as Mrs Coley was receiving in the pool area . |
| 13 | ‘ Bowlers allus goes for the man as is buildin' a ninnins. 'E 's the one they fear . |
| 14 | The same goes for The Shamen as a whole . |
| 15 | The VC-7/V-1000 was scrapped , and the Boeing 707 rode through the gap as pure jets proved both economic and attractive to passengers in spite of the Comet 1 disasters . |
| 16 | Jarvis wandered about the world as young people do , but instead of driving a van to India or observing political upheaval in Central America or getting into trouble in Africa he went to look at metro systems . |
| 17 | ‘ The worst time was driving through the night as we approached Nice at 3am . |
| 18 | I would recommend , nevertheless , to improve the efficiency of this part of the filter that Siporax filter material is substituted for the Hexnodes as Siporax provides a much greater surface area for the same volume . |
| 19 | In the realm of the print , however , it is safe to say that paper napkins and chewing gum wrappers occupy the lower depths ( though let's not forget that A. Hyatt Mayor , the legendary Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan , acquired torn-off New Yorker covers for the collection as well as Tiepolo etchings ) . |
| 20 | SHARE prices and the pound rose during the night as election results showed a better-than-expected performance by the Conservatives . |
| 21 | Forester put his flashlight to each of the front windows in turn and peered through the glass as the distorted beam slid around the rooms . |
| 22 | For example , ‘ Bramley ’ is very difficult to keep small or grow as a cordon as it needs quite different pruning . |
| 23 | A fresh gust of rain bounced off the bonnet as he pulled away from the kerb . |
| 24 | And used as a medicine as well . |
| 25 | But the gloom deepened during the afternoon as more of the big societies said an increase was inevitable . |
| 26 | His big blond head kept coming up , shaking once and then bobbing through the water as he struck out for the machine . |
| 27 | Four lines cut and skip through the waves as Grant pulls away steadily for the drag . |
| 28 | Then , perhaps a little frightened by his own rhetoric but thinking that he might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb , he increased the figure to 1 million . |
| 29 | Behind him the dragon roared and crashed through the bushes as it tried to turn around , but Hrun was running , running , with his gaze fixed on Liartes and a dead branch in his hands . |
| 30 | The reverse of this policy was a Unionist proposal that all men in the armed forces should qualify for the franchise as of right . |