Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either it was created in its present form , or it has endured forever as it is today . |
| 2 | Unless a player is totally without imagination , then he can not fail to be aware of what has gone before as he makes his pilgrimage round Augusta . |
| 3 | All thoughts of where they were and what was happening fled abruptly as she stared at him with a shock that soon turned to joy as she saw the expression on his face . |
| 4 | It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day . |
| 5 | But she 's getting carried away with this , though her friends are good enough but they 're all getting carried away as you would say with a bad crowd . |
| 6 | Could the events have occurred just as they are described ? |
| 7 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 8 | should have gone soon as they got out of work . |
| 9 | Things might have happened just as he says . |
| 10 | In a purely crofting community this arrangement must have worked well as it was a pleasant blend of work and social intercourse . |
| 11 | He had come here as she guessed he would . |
| 12 | Sarella , half in and half out of the jeep , had frozen suddenly as her eyes met those of her host . |
| 13 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 14 | Lydia had once read a women's-magazine-type romance in book-form and her mind had felt then as her stomach felt now — ever so slightly destroyed . |
| 15 | She was thinking about a telephone call which she had answered just as she was about to leave the house . |
| 16 | The doors had opened wide as he reached them . |
| 17 | Molly 's sleep had been deep and dreamless but she woke up early , saw Hugh unconscious beside her and replaced the sheet he had kicked away as she might cover one of the children . |
| 18 | The exiles from Ecuador — more accustomed to jungle and soggy heat — had gasped unashamedly as we rounded the bend above the cliffs , and they remained quite mute , awestruck , as we circled down into town and parked outside the Hotel Eberhardt for a dish of the king crab , centolla , and a mug of beer . |
| 19 | One that had gone even as he groped for it . |
| 20 | Her imagination had run wild as she had fantasised tirelessly about how it would feel to have him hold her , his mouth pressed in passion against her own . |
| 21 | what had happened here as I presumed the telephone lines were down . |
| 22 | Ruth had begun early as she , Rachaela , had done . |
| 23 | Stitch 's nose had twitched eagerly as he took in the size of the Imperial . |
| 24 | His voice had hardened briefly as he added the caution , but when he went on again it was low and musing . |
| 25 | The muscles in his face had flexed tight as he spoke and his breathing had become uneven . |
| 26 | The skies had darkened ominously as she set out on her journey to the coast , but she was not unduly concerned about the dismal weather . |
| 27 | Parents of young users have watched helplessly as their children , their bodies overheating uncontrollably , suffer a painful and harrowing shocking death . |
| 28 | It 's unfortunate your big end 's gone just as we 've run out of lanolin , will axle grease do ? |
| 29 | And Joanna 's bones have strengthened naturally as she has grown older . |
| 30 | You know I 've had it happen the lights have changed just as I 've been crossing them so I 've gone over and three cars immediately behind me have followed me . |