Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light shone on to his upturned face and gleamed on the burnished flanks of the mare who blew through her nose impatiently as though to ask what they were waiting for . |
| 2 | More , he is to equip them for their mission just as he had equipped Jesus for his . |
| 3 | I wonder if they charge the same prices for their take away as for sitting at the table . |
| 4 | The wicked sisters of this now nightmarish fairy-tale can feel no pity nor respect for their father just as he can muster no sense of true love . |
| 5 | ARSENAL and Aston Villa are planning dramatic changes for their clash tonight as managers George Graham and Ron Atkinson desperately seek to beef up their stuttering title challenges . |
| 6 | I think of my Mother still as the best woman I have ever known . |
| 7 | setting aside a particular Sunday of their choice annually as Human Rights Day , for prayer and reflection on human rights issues . |
| 8 | Women leaders of the militant trade unions possess a strong sense of their exploitation both as workers and as women . |
| 9 | Later , as the sac-like evagination develops , the bases of the epithelial cells become drawn out into long processes , so imparting a spongy texture to the tissues of the wing-pad , and the basement membranes of the lower and upper epithelia become apposed for most of their area so as to form the so-called middle membrane ( Fig. 30 ) . |
| 10 | The girl yawned and rubbed the back of her head just as the wind of Jezrael 's exit ruffled the yellow curls . |
| 11 | Theda stepped back and caught at the back of her hair just as it came tumbling down over her shoulders . |
| 12 | Agnes stood directly in front of her mother now as she said , ‘ Would it do you any harm either to go down into the shop or to go over to the house and change the linen ? |
| 13 | They fired through the windows of his bungalow home as he watched television . |
| 14 | Now she caught a glimpse of his face again as he drew the straps down from her shoulders and found her unencumbered by a bra . |
| 15 | John Hitch had seemed convinced that it would and Plummer trusted the instincts of his colleague almost as he trusted his own . |
| 16 | Wilko and out : British No 2 Chris Wilkinson pulled off the most spectacular win of his career today as he put fourth seed Goran Ivanisevic out of the Stella Artois Championships at Queen 's Club . |
| 17 | The problems start , however , once we move on to consider just what rights should be included in any Bill ; once we consider the difficulties of implementation ; and once we assess the implications of any such legally enforced code and written constitution for the functioning of our system especially as these things involve the position of the elected government and the judges . |
| 18 | Then ‘ I 've got you under my skin just as you 're getting me outta your system ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Shit , ’ I said to myself , and put my hand under my chin just as Paul , after a quick glance in my direction , started to attack the nose of the bomb . |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe not , ’ Maggie murmured worriedly , biting into her lip again as he continued to look down at her . |
| 21 | Flavia longed to go back and slip into her place just as the soup was brought and hear them telling about Loulou 's day . |
| 22 | She dropped the inch or two down into her seat again as the train began to move . |
| 23 | If one of the parties dies before the end of the mortgage term , their endowment will pay off their portion of the loan , and the surviving partner will continue paying into their policy exactly as before . |
| 24 | Whether one is satisfied that Mercier made free with its location so as to avoid having a fussy detail right at the edge of his picture must be for each observer to decide . |
| 25 | LIVERPOOL soccer manager Graeme Souness went for a drive with his girlfriend yesterday as he continued his recovery from a triple heart by-pass operation . |
| 26 | I , I think he 's drawing into his shell there as regards friends outside the family . |
| 27 | If you are going to a part of the world which is rife with certain diseases then investigate with your doctor beforehand as to whether you should have vaccinations . |
| 28 | You — ’ His voice disappeared , and I had to put the phone away from my ear again as he started to hammer the handset against the walls of the call-box . |
| 29 | I particularly thank my hon. Friend and his colleagues for recently calling in the Hillside and Brookshill development in my district so as to protect still further the local green belt land . |
| 30 | Well last time I was in er Dublin I er went from the pub straight to the airport and someone stuck a bottle of whiskey in my pocket just as I was going through customs , I did n't believe it could happen but it happened in Ireland . |