Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] as [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catering students also tested out their waitering and waitressing skills as they attempted to deliver trays on the back of a human ‘ camel ’ . |
| 2 | In 1626 , James Reid of Edinburgh University considered the possibility of the earth 's axial rotation , suggesting that Scripture sometimes described phenomena as they appeared to the senses , rather than as they really were . |
| 3 | They also supply computers as I understood ? |
| 4 | We sang and drummed our way to Al Ain in an explosion of sound which riveted cars as we passed them . |
| 5 | He made loud wailing noises as he sailed back and forth over the wall , missing the top by inches . |
| 6 | Erm on the use of existing employment sites , I 'd hate you to go away with the impression that er we were actively seeking to reallocate sites as they came forward , and that certainly is n't the case . |
| 7 | Ratagan had procured beer for them from somewhere with magical ease , and they were supping the malty liquid from brimming tankards as they went . |
| 8 | Wolves may not howl here in the moonlight , as they did in the journal of Jonathan Harker , but I have no difficulty in seeing Slains as he saw Count Dracula 's castle in Bukovina , the tall black windows from which not a glimmer of light came , and the jagged battlements glimpsed when the moon came out from behind the fitful clouds . |
| 9 | A six inch deep channel of water still flowed over their wader clad feet as they stood in a rough circle looking down at something in the mud . |
| 10 | Their feet made loud sucking noises as they tramped over to the burn . |
| 11 | Sometimes they journeyed alone , sometimes in groups , singing psalms as they walked . |
| 12 | Chang had produced some seemingly impossible shots too : not just decapitating waves as they curled over and scimitared down , but the underbelly of the wave as well , shot through the turbulence ; the lip from behind and below ; the inside of the barrel taken from the inside looking out . |
| 13 | ‘ Lord , our Mass is over , ’ the choir sang in sweet , lilting voices as everyone walked down the hill into town once more . |
| 14 | Theodora watched as the woman whose voice would carry across a couple of ten-acre fields , and who could bring a rowdy committee to heel by clearing her throat , murmuring intimately into the mare 's ear and made little clucking noises as she plied her with carrots . |
| 15 | He called in the Army who arrived on Thursday afternoon and dealt with the object — a spent two inch ‘ smokey ’ designed to screen troops as they made their advance . |
| 16 | Hubert bent nails , made patterns with metal bars and suffered agonies as he struggled to lift massive weights . |
| 17 | ‘ True , you had to bounce things as you went along . |
| 18 | The playground was empty but he could hear the sing-song voices of children reciting tables as he paused by the railings . |
| 19 | Like Romaine 's Edinburgh research , the Belfast projects worked within Labov 's general theoretical paradigm , attempting to tackle difficulties as they emerged . |
| 20 | It was evident in all their dealings that no matter how Marie Claire bestirred herself the maids would do things as they had always done them . |
| 21 | The wounded were walking wounded mainly , with bandaged heads and arms in slings , a few of them trying to crack jokes as they trudged on board . |
| 22 | A tech murmured incantations as he stroked the wires running from this to a bone-framed screen where runes and formulae flickered ; the man 's left hand had been replaced by a baroque prosthetic voltmeter with electrode claws . |
| 23 | The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels . |
| 24 | ‘ An error , ’ he said slowly , eyeing her trembling hands as they twisted on her lap . |
| 25 | We sign , ’ he told reporters as he arrived nearly four hours after the scheduled start of the talks . |
| 26 | A large turn-out would ‘ punch the mouths of idle prattlers and enemies of Islam and Muslims ’ , Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , successor to the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as Iran 's spiritual guide , told reporters as he voted . |
| 27 | One advantage of the appalling route was that it offered no temptation to diverge from it — since I could not see where I was going anyway , the only thing to do was to follow the compass , and I had waded ditches as I came to them instead of attempting to find easier crossing places . |
| 28 | She began to run again , down towards it , jumping from tussock to tussock , and then her hat came loose and she snatched it off , scattering pins as she did so , and ran on , holding it in her hand and every so often bowling it ahead of her like a hoop . |
| 29 | The pilot flipped up the door , and Duroc bent to avoid the still slowly circling blades as he stepped down onto the tarmac . |
| 30 | Actually it was only a matter of perhaps fifty seconds before the first convulsive rattle of protest shook his ribs , and then she felt the first thread of breath drawn out long and fine under her coaxing fingers as she sat back from him . |