Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anala ( 1974 ) thought that mussels should be the preferred prey for H. lapillus as they offered a richer source of food than barnacles ; 4.844 k cal g — 1 dry weight compared with 3.827 . |
| 2 | She tried hard not to appear self-conscious as she greeted the doorman at IMP 's headquarters where she worked . |
| 3 | Rain felt distinctly uncharitable as she straightened the bed and tried to pretend they had never been there . |
| 4 | The café looked deserted as I approached the front door . |
| 5 | Kelly felt quite calm as she entered the large committee room . |
| 6 | Huy felt anger rise into his mouth , but he made himself remain calm as he described the dead girl from the land of the Twin Rivers . |
| 7 | He felt perfectly calm as he entered the shop . |
| 8 | However , in 1989 things started to go all wrong as she developed a hook in the very week before she went to the English at Burnham and Berrow Much of the season , by her high standards , was bitterly disappointing but , by dint of " plugging away " , she began to rediscover her form during the week of the English Intermediate won by Lora Fairclough . |
| 9 | In this situation the first entry relating to the sales is clear as we reduce the sales by £600 and reduce the bank account by £600 in respect of the refund . |
| 10 | As we saw earlier , the extreme emotions of the horse are quite clear as they involve the whole horse ; but the same emotions in a more moderate form , or of lesser intensity , like apprehension or annoyance , will reveal themselves differently in different horses ; and the horse owner really has to learn them from the movement , gestures , and noises that the horse makes , and the context in which they are made . |
| 11 | Anyway , it was dead quiet and I felt a bit funny as I opened the door- ’ She stopped . |
| 12 | When we actually reached the reef , with calm water erupting into foaming waves twenty feet high as they hit the rocks , the Mantela bucked like a frightened horse , sank into a trough , reared up again , and then , as suddenly as it had started , the old tub was through the creamy foam of the passage and had settled into the lazy waters of the lagoon . |
| 13 | Rosalba 's voice grew worried and high as she remembered the Easter meal . |
| 14 | It was bitterly resentful , her hatred burning high as she remembered the months running into years that it had taken for her to convince herself that the guilt she had felt after her own father 's death was a self-destructive trap and just one more wrong done to her by Luke Scott . |
| 15 | By far the most common escape mechanism for organisms ranging from bacteria to human beings is ‘ habituation ’ , a kind of behavioural boredom by which an animal becomes less responsive as it encounters the same stimulus repeatedly . |
| 16 | The action has lasted most of the day and it is now early evening but still light as we have a short sharp skirmish with the enemy rearguard . |
| 17 | Now careful as you pick the packets up because some of them are so old . |
| 18 | She 'd meant her tone to be clipped and dismissive , but even to her own ears it sounded slurred and indistinct as she made a mental attempt to regain conscious control over the increased rhythm of her heart . |
| 19 | ‘ Or a King Charles Spaniel , ’ muttered Constance , puffing as she pushed the sofa against the wall . |
| 20 | So security was extra-tight as we visited the exclusive Knightsbridge store . |
| 21 | And slowly and carefully he peeled the garment over her head , his hands unsteady as he completed the task . |
| 22 | While all these points are important , the last-named is crucial as it influences the way in which new development is linked to the existing village core . |
| 23 | It is cool outside as I throw a log on the gently breathing embers . |
| 24 | Ruddock himself , back from a one-match ban after being sent off against Crystal Palace , was blameless as he met a Vinny Samways cross to beat Steve Ogrizovic . |
| 25 | Her eyes seemed to have grown even larger and they stared grimly at Tug and the girl , barely blinking as she watched every movement . |
| 26 | The entrance hall , although large and square , was panelled in some dark wood , which made it gloomy , and the ancestral portraits which stared disapprovingly down on Sabine as she mounted the stairs did nothing to lighten the atmosphere . |
| 27 | We became alarmed as he turned the car towards El Gala bridge and the city . |
| 28 | Waiting time by specialty is meaningless as it conceals a wide variation among consultants ' clinics . |
| 29 | It is meaningless as it makes no effort to establish who is doing the expecting in such a typical manner . |
| 30 | I think historically although you know historians can much better than me , erm historically maybe the way that the rock has been worked with a bagging system and it was you know and lots of quarry men had little bits of farm as well around Blaenau especially and you get a feeling er from reading about it that er you know they have a an almost self employed attitude to their to their work and their rock and the fact that er they 'd do it in their own you know wor work the rock in a certain way and this and very sort of proud erm of their work and that and From talking a lot to them and being close to you know it you feel that that that 's still very much the same really you know there is this sort of close relationship and that with their em employers there was you know a lot of you know was n't it was n't straight it as straight as you said a straight employer employee relationship that they was A lot of s sort of er give and take probably and I think they were outraged at this sort of McGregor type tactic really that you know this new machine . |