Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It were just you know oh it 's a nice morning when I 'm hanging the washing out as though everything was wonderful you know |
| 2 | These last months , the women have taken it over , giving birth in the annexe and taking and bricking the babe up as soon as it breathed , and before it got found and eaten . |
| 3 | Dipping her two hands in the neck of Cissie 's night-shift , Beth drew out the long brown locks , spreading them over the collar and fanning the hair out as it was not altogether dry . |
| 4 | Disappointed , her confidence evaporating , she tried turning the question round as she had done before : ‘ If you do n't want us to drive back in it , wiggle your finger . ’ |
| 5 | Gooch the general who 's been switching the field around as to suit each batsman . |
| 6 | He was brewing beer and getting the harvest in as well as organising the picking of his Goldings . |
| 7 | She braced herself as if she were going into battle , blurting the truth out as she clasped her hands together until the knuckles stood out like bleached bones . |
| 8 | Often this is a matter of stopping the time out as soon as all the crying , whining , foot stamping has ceased and the child is quiet again : ‘ You can come back when you are quiet ’ is the rule of the day . |
| 9 | At which poor Jack Rogers — a former bricklayer and union leader , and the member of the executive taking the can back as he replied to the debate — innocently protested they had n't been drunk , they had n't even had a cup of tea . |
| 10 | A representative sampling of Osiris Management Services ' clientele was there , beefy ballocky blokes who prized the rugby scrum of life as much as an opportunity for putting the boot in as for winning the ball . |
| 11 | I 'm only putting the truth down as I see it . |
| 12 | Interviewers can not be sure of people 's age or social class before an interview is begun and so one can see the temptation of putting a woman down as under 35 if that is just what you need at the end of a hard day when the woman turns out in fact to be 38 . |
| 13 | By Mark Davies political correspondent JOHN Major was today planning a fight back as senior Tories prepared to turn on Norman Lamont after his fierce Commons resignation speech . |
| 14 | A BATTERED John Major was today planning a fight back as senior Tories rallied round to turn on Norman Lamont after his fierce Commons resignation speech . |