Example sentences of "[v-ing] as [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was laughing as he said this , but Cassie was not entirely sure that she found the idea particularly funny . |
| 2 | They made a good pair , both dark-haired , Simone animated and bubbly , laughing as he related amusing anecdotes about his travels . |
| 3 | And thousands of people are dying as you read this as a result . |
| 4 | Modern school buildings make as much use as possible of natural light , incorporating as they do large windows . |
| 5 | Millie , Sapphire 's murderer , clearly misses male sexual attention , fantasising as she does that her absent husband 's return is imminent . |
| 6 | We have seen how ‘ the street ’ and ‘ the city ’ played important roles in middle-class demonology , so it is easy to understand why youth workers sought to provide counter-attractions to them , believing as they did that ‘ there is nothing worth doing to be done there ’ . |
| 7 | From these it is clear that he identified completely with the men in the outposts , believing as they did that if all was well in the boma the empire could be left to take care of itself . |
| 8 | It is all too bland , and the constant reference to the reader as ‘ he ’ is rather tiresome , implying as it does that there are no differences in the reading behaviour and tastes of boys and girls . |
| 9 | Of the two promises made by the duke , it is the second which has received most attention , implying as it does that the duke had been poaching the earl 's retainers . |
| 10 | Of the two promises made by the duke , it is the second which has received most attention , implying as it does that the duke had been poaching the earl 's retainers . |
| 11 | ‘ Flags & Emblems ’ suggests he could be right , boasting as it does ten numbers that are every bit as abrasive and sharply barbed as their predecessors . |
| 12 | DELL PLAYS THE FIELD LOOKING AS IT REVIEWS ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF CASH |
| 13 | On the clean sound , reverb really does make a difference , adding as it does greater depth to any guitar 's tone . |
| 14 | Under her direction , the squad became a very close-knit affair comprising as it did four cousins , six nephews and a younger brother ( 42 ) . |
| 15 | In the case of Estella however her appearances are n't really deceiving as she looks arrogant and proud and has proud eyes though she really changes for the better even though it occurred because of her treatment by Bentley Drummle and in the end like Pip , she is wiser and has been softened by her experiences and lost her proud eyes and air . |
| 16 | This approach to surgical research is again unacceptable , ignoring as it does much excellent research that is responsible for real improvements in patients ' care . |
| 17 | Discretion is the ‘ liberty of deciding as one thinks fit , absolutely or within limits . ’ |
| 18 | These results , confirming as they do those of Tizard et al. |
| 19 | If anything , his face was even more horrific , lacking as it did all but a travesty of humanity ; despite his animation , it still most resembled a helmet , a metal helmet with visor down , roughly shaped to conform to the outlines of a human face . |
| 20 | Their jit jive music keeps the listener moving as it blends high energy , finger-picking good guitar melodies with deep African rhythms and percussion . |
| 21 | Happily this is not a serious drawback and the set is strongly recommended , containing as it does some of the most sensitive and intelligent Fauré playing on CD . ( ) |
| 22 | Never before , and probably not for a very long time again will it be possible to recreate such an exhibition , containing as it does important paintings from major Western and Russian museums and private collections , as well as outstanding works from circa fifty provincial and specialised museums in the former Soviet Union . |
| 23 | Plants that manufacture food slowly will respond to full sunshine by wilting as they become hotter and lose water . |
| 24 | Miron 's tentative conclusion is that older staff may become less concerned about teaching as they develop other priorities ; but it is equally possible that students are responding more similarly , and more favourably , to lecturers who are more like themselves . |
| 25 | Gradually the patients ' new environment seems less strange and threatening as they become aware of the possibilities for communication between hospital and their familiar environment . |
| 26 | His mood was an explosive mixture of maudlin self-pity and forced gaiety , the latter predominating as he got drunker . |
| 27 | You can feel the leg muscles really hardening as you pedal hard up a hill . |
| 28 | Many of the child workers at the mine , suffering as they did such long hours and the effect of the physical demands of their labour , would be constrained from attending evening classes . |
| 29 | I 'm crying as I write this because we might have been able to save her . |
| 30 | This might have seemed odd , coming as it did less than a week after Franco 's bellicose public references to Gibraltar . |