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 .
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