Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bolingbroke found himself spied on as he travelled from Paris to Lorraine to see the increasingly unappreciative Pretender , and his letters , with their easily-deciphered substitutions — ‘ Lady Mary ’ for ‘ England ’ , ‘ Nelly ’ for Scotland — intercepted . |
| 2 | Darkling they drew off as best they could , dragging their wounded with them , carrying them when they dropped . |
| 3 | " I 'm not seeing a girl , " Patrick insisted with a grin , his sister was as eager to see him married off as his mother was against the idea . |
| 4 | Do n't forget he started out as one of The Comedians … ’ |
| 5 | I got myself invited along as I wanted to find out what drove him to travel all the way from Surrey to South Wales nearly every weekend . |
| 6 | He often struck me as the kind of wide boy one found in England right after the war , people who made deals of the spivvier sort and did n't care who went down as long as they went up . |
| 7 | When he got through and began to speak he cheered up as he laughed and talked away , before becoming depressed at the end of the call . |