Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his disastrous 76 on Saturday cost him dearly as Zimbabwe 's Nick Price kept his head to take his first major title with a battling 70 for 278 and a three-stroke victory ahead of Faldo , John Cook , Gene Sauers and Jim Gallagher Jnr . |
| 2 | Prominence is the related psychological notion : Halliday defines it simply as " the general name for the phenomenon of linguistic highlighting , whereby some linguistic feature stands out in some way " . " |
| 3 | ‘ How bad it would be , ’ Marty told himself callously as he watched him go , ‘ to have your bed and your bellyful and no worries at all ! ’ |
| 4 | Ryker regarded her furiously as the uniformed man extended a hand to help her up . |
| 5 | The challenges facing it were daunting : a considerable proportion of the UN was opposed to its existence ; the predominant political forces in south Korea regarded it simply as providing a veneer of international respectability for the creation of a south Korean state ; north Korea had no intention of helping it in any way and the United States believed the commission should complete its task swiftly and without asking awkward questions . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's enough of that , ’ Ross told them firmly as he threw aside the sheets , revealing the fact that he was wearing a pair of boxer shorts . |
| 7 | Mavis drew me aside as soon as she saw an opportunity . |
| 8 | I 'll bring Whitey to meet you just as soon as I can and I know you 'll love him . ’ |
| 9 | She made Fred see himself only as she described him as a man who was deliberately making his now pregnant wife unhappy . |
| 10 | She snuggled down and began to drift to sleep , memories of Alain holding her here as she wept on that first day , memories of him bringing her up to bed after he had kissed her in the kitchen , fluttering like moths in the light , easing her into sleep . |
| 11 | Matthew sliced it diagonally as Lizzie had described and gave them their portions . |
| 12 | Coleridge viewed it rather as another home for Pantisocracy , even though his companions and fellow believers were reduced now to Sara herself and George Burnett . |
| 13 | ‘ The first Svend knew that there was a search on for Suzie and himself was when my agent arrived at the house earlier this evening , ’ Rune told her calmly as he sorted through a small pile of leaflets . |
| 14 | Linking strong fingers with hers , Vitor kept her upright as they made their way down the bank . |
| 15 | But Jonas Hamilton saw it immediately as he opened the door to her . |
| 16 | M. Berton regarded him alone as capable of directing [ diriger ] the large Paris Opéra orchestra , after himself . |
| 17 | Irene watched her anxiously as she left the room . |
| 18 | With his law of primitive socialist accumulation Preobrazhensky saw it essentially as being conditions which were imposed upon the Soviet economy ; either the state sector will grow or it will succumb to the private sector , but the ‘ law ’ itself is only manifested by a series of conditions which were conscious acts upon the part of the Soviet state , since it involved plans and planning . |
| 19 | Beth remembered it all as though it was only yesterday ; it was etched on her mind and in her heart for all time . |
| 20 | Carradine struck me somehow as unusual , even for the City . |
| 21 | The admiration which churchmen such as Cardinal Arthur Hinsley and Bishop G. K. A. Bell of Chichester [ qq.v. ] had for Dawson involved him actively as vice-president in the Sword of the Spirit , a proto-ecumenical movement which , to his disappointment , proved to be too visionary for the Roman authorities of the time . |
| 22 | Isay followed him unquestioningly as always when he passed through the gates of the Rorim proper to the open space beyond . |
| 23 | South Africa , Mexico , Brazil , Spain , San Marino , France , Britain , Germany — Mansell won them all as his mighty Renault-Williams car blazed to triumph after triumph . |
| 24 | South Africa , Mexico , Brazil , Spain , San Marino , France , Germany , Britain — Mansell won them all as his Renault-Williams car blazed to triumph after triumph . |
| 25 | Mansell won them all as his mighty Renault-Williams car blazed to triumph after triumph . |
| 26 | South Africa , Mexico , Brazil , Spain , San Marino , France , Britain , Germany — Mansell won them all as his mighty Renault-Williams car blazed to triumph after triumph . |
| 27 | Jean Jelbart stood smiling just behind him , her golden-brown hair freshly curled and set for Christmas , and Belinda greeted her warmly as well . |
| 28 | As he drove up the main street and turned out of the town at the top , Sarah looked round her with pleasure and George studied her surreptitiously as she did so . |
| 29 | At the same time , SunSelect unveiled its proposal for a Public Windows Interface specification that would bring the Windows applications program interface into the public domain and make it harder for Microsoft to alter it so as to trip up the competition . |
| 30 | Consuelo greeted her calmly as she arrived , breathless from running down the hill . |