Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cold meal was hastily served , a few words exchanged , and everyone speedily retired as Catesby insisted that on the morrow we would rise early as there was a great deal of business to be done . |
| 2 | The shriek of the plane 's engines drowned our voices , so Bonefish and I just watched as the plane sank towards Straker Cay 's small airstrip . |
| 3 | If I rush it unsettles me for the whole session , and I invariably feel as though I have not done something right . |
| 4 | Piers asked Alyssia pleasantly , and she again felt as though they were both making an enormous effort to include her in what they would have preferred to be an intimate tête-à-tête . |
| 5 | All her own passion had died out of her : she felt deflated ; she had the desire to laugh , and she almost did as she said , ‘ Yes , I know what I want at this moment and that 's something to eat and then to get downstairs again , because , you know , it 's Father 's night for the club . ’ |
| 6 | Her eyes strayed to the card that she still held in her hand and she almost started as she saw , written in plain bold print , a name that had featured with such regularity recently in the headlines of the business section of the local newspaper that she could not fail to recognise it . |
| 7 | The tableau is no longer primal feasible and one further pivot as shown . |
| 8 | He had no trouble grasping her meaning , she saw , and he even smiled as he replied , ‘ You 're too sharp , Leith . |
| 9 | He did n't know , and he almost stammered as he replied , ‘ We … |
| 10 | At Bridgend he looked in despair , and he almost admitted as much : ‘ I hope we can pull it together but sometimes I have my doubts . ’ |
| 11 | Like myself , his mind was still wrestling with Mr Billing 's problem and he hardly winced as Tristan placed a steaming plateful of sausage and mash before him . |
| 12 | As shown with Elizabeth and Harry , the man feels very much threatened , as he 's lost his job , by retiring , and it now looks as though he is losing his wife as well . |
| 13 | Polytechnics are also expanding rapidly — more rapidly at present than the universities — and it now looks as though government targets will be met . |
| 14 | She was on holiday after all , and it certainly seemed as though that was what he 'd been indulging in while waiting for his ladyfriend to return . |
| 15 | But I just thought as we want Smiths and Intersports |
| 16 | But I still felt as though I 'd have a nervous breakdown if I had to cope for much longer … . |
| 17 | But nobody else looks as though he might suddenly emerge . |
| 18 | That was basically spite , of course , but you always start as you mean to go on . |
| 19 | The girl was dishevelled , her hair a mess , but she only laughed as he caught her and pulled her into another room . |
| 20 | The floor tiles were cold but she hardly noticed as she tiptoed to the door and looked into the kitchen . |
| 21 | Back in the late seventies Ernie was a regular in the Island and he achieved his ‘ ton ’ on the Lightweight class but he also rode as passenger for his brother Wallace as they too put up a three figure lap . |
| 22 | Remarkably , Pliny slept calmly during the early part of the night , although ashes had begun to pile up outside the house , but he eventually awoke as the situation deteriorated . |
| 23 | But it quickly vanished as they got on with the morning 's proceedings . |
| 24 | " Artisan " could embrace many independent craftsmen trading in their own product from their own shops , but it usually covered as well those skilled manufacturers dependent on work put out by merchant capitalists and wage-earning journeymen on employers ' premises . |
| 25 | The deadline on the payment , which is the final tranche of a total Bond investment of more than £154m , is early November , but it now looks as though the money could be paid over as early as next week . |
| 26 | But it now looks as though something similar can happen in a failing computer . |
| 27 | But it now looks as though pressure for earlier action may surface at the United Nations in the autumn , led by Canada and Malta . |
| 28 | The Portsmouth defence creaked but it never cracked as Andy Mutch and Sean Taylor tried to get a goal . |