Example sentences of "[noun prp] as [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheepishly , Nathan agreed to go and watch movies with Zambia , casting agonised looks after Ari as he followed hir from the canteen . |
| 2 | But , to be fair , the McLaren directors had other matters on their mind in Portugal as they moped Senna 's fevered brow and cursed Mansell 's unwelcome intrusion into a family affair . |
| 3 | His precipitate action was clearly calculated to make life harder rather than easier for the PLO as he abandoned responsibility for civil servants in the West Bank . |
| 4 | Desmond grinned across the restaurant table at Shiona as they clinked champagne glasses together . |
| 5 | They giggled and poked fun at Eleanor as they ate piece after piece of the cake . |
| 6 | THERE was a wicked gleam in the eye of Paul Hodkinson as he watched Colin McMillan getting ripped apart in his WBO world featherweight title . |
| 7 | mimic the LH as he gives words from both lists in random order |
| 8 | ‘ If you ask me , that 's going a bit far , ’ said Ozaran as he watched Jinkwa snuggling up to the dead body of the General . |
| 9 | These were as unquestioned in the time of Jenkin and Darwin as our speciesist assumptions of human rights , human dignity , and the sacredness of human life are unquestioned today . |
| 10 | MICHELLE Lineker , 27 , wife of ex-England soccer ace Gary , is greeted by happy mascot Doctor Hope as she presents Maidstone Hospital , Kent , with an ambulance for children with cancer . |
| 11 | And he glanced at Graham as he pushed copies of the two London evening papers across the desk . |
| 12 | The gunman fired a handgun at the ceiling of the Bristol and West in Banbury High Street as he demanded money . |
| 13 | on delivery from BREL York to Ilford , new class 321 emu No 321334 is reflected in the waters of the River Ouse as it passes Offord Cluney , near Huntingdon , on 31 March 1989 . |
| 14 | REVENGE is an extra spur for Rhyl as they face Gresford in the Allbright Bitter Welsh Cup today . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh no , ’ said Ralph as he saw Tubby clutching in one hand his knee and the other a bloody stump . |
| 16 | ARTISOFT ENHANCES LANTASTIC AS IT UNVEILS VERSION 5 OF THE NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM |
| 17 | But perhaps the greatest personal satisfaction was earned by Gerard Larrousse as he watched Aguri Suzuki finish sixth in the Larrousse-Lola and poke a championship point in the eye of those who had recently stripped the French team of its hard-won rewards from last year . |
| 18 | Andy Saville hit a hat-trick for HARTLEPOOL as they beat SOUTHPORT 4-0 yesterday . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps you could find someone else to pay you for your story , ’ suggested Oliver as he ushered Tim out on to the stairs . |
| 20 | ‘ Angelina ! ’ shouted Oliver as he caught sight of her trim figure clad in pink cotton . |
| 21 | ‘ New-fangled nonsense , if you ask me , ’ said Sir Philip as he poured Harry a drink . |
| 22 | Cauthen 's prolific American contemporary , Cash Asmussen , will miss four booked rides at Ascot as he pulled muscles in his neck when falling from his mount who crossed his legs at the start of the last race at Maisons-Laffitte yesterday . |
| 23 | Horrified friends fought to save 52-year-old farmer John Wilcox as he suffered heart failure from the venom . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've got light fingers , ’ Mrs Gooden said approvingly one Sunday as she watched Clare , with the tips of her fingers , mix flour and lard in the big yellow mixing bowl . |
| 25 | We thank you especially for the witness of Archbishop Runcie and pray for him and for Bishop Carey as they transfer responsibility under your guiding hand . |
| 26 | The museum man placed his fingertips together and nodded at Davide as he took trouble to explain , and the colour flowed back from Davide 's cheeks and he slipped the coin into his pocket , with its two faces that were neither mirror images of one another , nor replicas , but a false double , an inexact repeat . |
| 27 | — Then she did a P.G.C.E. in T.E.S.O.L. as they call T.E.F.L. nowadays . |
| 28 | The joke 's on Mellor as he faces press |
| 29 | Aberdeen , whatever its staging-post status in their plans , received the same attention as their eventual western destinations , and Johnson approached it with the attitude he later brought to the Highlands and the west , with Boswell , for his part , consistent in the manner and style of his own reportage — observing Johnson as he observed Scotland . |
| 30 | ‘ The wrestling match is over , the assailant disappears , and the sun rises upon Jacob as he leaves Peniel , limping because of the injury to his hip . |