Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He frequently had Courier crashing to the ground or flailing hopelessly as the balls flew past him . |
2 | Money not spent on ale would probably be stolen or gambled away as the Hirings attracted pickpockets and professional gamblers from the big towns . |
3 | Then , just ten feet below the fox and some seventy feet from the ground , he stopped and clung tightly as the pole swayed in the wind . |
4 | Most were working to clean weapons or saddlery , and only a few looked up and gazed incuriously as the party rode past . |
5 | They switched on the car 's headlights as a beacon ; but , all of a sudden , as the Prince and his companions were half-way across the water , the lights swung round and moved away as the vehicle set off down the glen . |
6 | The location of the flight , up the steep hillside , had indeed been suggested by James Barnes in 1902 , but the idea was not taken very seriously and forgotten altogether as the Telford plan developed . |
7 | Carrington raised the bottle , swallowed , and sneezed hard as the fumes went up his nose . |
8 | But ‘ Winters ’ hauled England up a second-half mountain , dragging his pack into overdrive and tackling non-stop as the Boks came out of a half-time huddle screeching defiance and ready to build on a 16–11 lead . |
9 | Sartre ultimately chose to ignore the constructive Marxist elements in Nizan 's life and work which , from the vantage point of 1960 , were perceived as no more than a Stalinist mystification and selected instead as the model for a post-Stalinist epoch , the uncompromising rebellion of a young intellectual of the 1920s venting his spleen on the iniquities of bourgeois oppression at home and colonial oppression abroad . |
10 | Chuck raised his rifle coolly and fired just as the bull launched itself on him . |
11 | He had run down the long corridors to the lounge and arrived just as the shuttle passengers were disembarking . |
12 | Mary shivered and turned away as the first clods of earth thudded onto the coffin . |
13 | The children covered their eyes and turned away as the needle went in , but the squirrel only jerked slightly then lay still . |
14 | He punched a goal into his own net in Glasgow and this time was caught off his line and flailing backwards as the ball sailed over him . |
15 | K ! sdra hefted his own sword and grinned expansively as the wizard shuffled towards him . |
16 | John used to enter very simply , did his class ‘ not very well but with complete concentration , and between exercises , when others would talk , adjust their clothes , or wipe the sweat from their faces , he stood perfectly still and watched closely as the next group went through the exercises ; Margot Fonteyn would do that too . ’ |
17 | Robyn scrambled back out of the way and watched helplessly as the choking greyness filled the room . |
18 | Ruth squeezed tight her eyes and swallowed hard as the aircraft soared up into the sky . |
19 | A few sensed the power of Callanish and went there as the creatures did and felt the peace . |
20 | She just sat and stared blankly as the world outside her changed from one of elegance and opulence to one of uniformity and poverty . |
21 | Robert came forward and listened intently as the owners — a middle-aged man with an anxious-looking wife — asked nervously , ‘ You say there 's a certain amount of risk . |
22 | They walked towards the unsteady steps , and a figure took shape out of the darkness , weaving as it came and blinking dazedly as the lantern was lifted to illuminate its face . |
23 | MARGARETE Buber-Neumann lived and suffered much in the eye of the storm of history that tore Europe apart , and died just as the world was watching incredulously what seems to be the great schism 's healing . |
24 | ( iv ) Individuals choose to belong to national groups ( even if the oppressing force reduces the range of choice to a very narrow one ) and do so as the selection of a strategy for action , not the passive recognition of some primordial ordering . |
25 | Durkin would nod and smile gently as the tiny bird-like voice meandered on . |
26 | I dropped my cords and squatted down , leaning back against the five-star pump and breathing heavily as the pool of steaming piss collected on the bark-rough concrete of the fuel apron . |
27 | The executive jet settled on its main wheels and braked sharply as the thrust-reverse and spoilers were deployed . |
28 | Rachaela had given in her notice at the Pizza Eater and left just as the free balloons began to be given out and Christmas pudding appeared on the menu . |
29 | Mr Guillermo ‘ Billy ’ Ford , a vice-presidential Adoc candidate , was also severely bloodied and beaten even as the other Adoc leader , Mr Ricardo Arias Calderon , condemned the cancellation of the poll as ‘ an unbearable mockery of the will of the Panamanian people ’ . |
30 | She slept soundly and awoke just as the dawn was swelling in a luminous golden tide across the sky . |