Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'VE never been so moved before as I was when I saw on TV the rescue of a boy who had collapsed on his way to a feeding centre in Somalia . |
| 2 | You can only watch helplessly as your child screws up her face , stamps her feet and screams because she ca n't take the toy she wants home with her , or have that alluring packet of sweets she 's seen before tea . |
| 3 | Minerva Beaton could hardly keep her long face straight as she sawed her cello . |
| 4 | Dot wanted to tell her how they were much better staying just as they were . |
| 5 | And he , well he 's , he was wealthy enough to do exactly as he wanted . |
| 6 | ‘ You , Sir , ’ he wrote to Sir John Franklin , ‘ fully understand this pleasure particularly when one 's visits are directed to a fresh field abounding with novelties ; if I find my labors as much rewarded here as they have been in V. D. Land , I shall consider myself amply paid . ’ |
| 7 | In Wilson 's first defeat by a British competitor over this distance for 2½ years the two swam neck and neck for just over half the race before Akers suddenly pulled ahead as he searched for an Olympic qualifying time . |
| 8 | Unthinkingly she let her eyes stray to his face , only to flinch abruptly as she realised his deep blue eyes were focused on her , their expression strangely sardonic . |
| 9 | Once , the Everqueen could easily have banished the daemon , but her power was much reduced even as her land was ravaged . |
| 10 | The news about him only arrived just as I was leaving . |
| 11 | So lets just as we hurry along this morning notice several things about this interview that this man had with Jesus . |
| 12 | When he touched a gentle knuckle to her cheek , she started ; her breath lodged somewhere in her throat and she could only stand helplessly as he untied the ribbon securing her hair . |
| 13 | He looked at her , the temper suddenly draining away as he assessed her expression . |
| 14 | The , the note is in fact er effectively the Bank of , could have endorsed it to , to a third party so to speak exactly as it would have done in any er any fiscal currency of the er of the type . |
| 15 | Although they have a base in Hanover House , they are rarely seen here as their workload of visits increases . |
| 16 | I think I 'd had I finished my breakfast when , no I think you just came just as I was about to take my first mouthful of cereal . |
| 17 | The depressing view of the unsightly pylons marching across the valley floor , heavy traffic thundering along the Woodhead Pass road , five reservoirs and a disused railway line , is soon left behind as you negotiate the tussocky grass slops below Long Gutter Edge towards the entrance to Wildboar Clough . |
| 18 | British television is almost as widely admired abroad as it is at home . |
| 19 | The heavy furniture of the lobby was still arranged exactly as it had been in 1950 . |
| 20 | She was still laughing softly as she laid the phone down , but the laughter died in her throat as she looked up to see Adam standing a few feet away , his eyes hard as jet . |
| 21 | The jump in share prices was comparable to yesterday 's but the euphoria quickly ebbed away as it dawned on investors that — in terms of the immediate prospects — not much had changed and what had changed was not entirely for the better . |
| 22 | The first two weekends of the 1977 season were for Mario anyway marred by accidents : in Argentina the nose-mounted fire extinguisher exploded , and in Brazil he found himself sitting in a pool of petrol and got out of the car while it was still moving just as his cockpit went up in flames . |
| 23 | Her face was still sulky and she still sniffed occasionally as she put her feet to the ground . |
| 24 | His head still spun slightly as he followed the words and looked upwards intermittently to see by the expression of a face if someone had forgotten their lines . |
| 25 | That 's if he still live there as I say . |
| 26 | Lindsey was still breathing hard as she strode through hospital reception , with an effort managing to smile at the small group of people sitting there before going through to the consulting-room and flinging her jacket on to the nearest chair . |
| 27 | The colour of his face always reddens just as it does when fat Margot , the launderess , who keeps me supplied with cups of sack , bends and dips to provide me with a generous view of the most famous cleavage in all of Surrey . ) |
| 28 | The immediate sense-experiences with which his method begins are not part of a systematic record , and are very quickly left behind as one digs below their surface . |
| 29 | It was still snowing lightly as they walked to the Mercedes . |
| 30 | Vaughan 's dinner cooking usually begins just as her two sons return from school in the afternoon . |