Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] as [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Tylee 's courtesy was unfailing — she was a neatly dressed lady who wore a velvet neckband and her ‘ pince-nez ’ or pinchers as we called them were attached to a thin gold necklet , ready to be placed at the end of her nose when she was searching for something required by her customers . |
| 2 | The Education Department did n't like the situation ; they did not co-operate with advice or materials as they had done in the past , and in fact the island 's Director of Education accused Mrs M of ‘ acting illegally ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ There was no Albert Bridge then , ’ recalled Ben Bellaser , ‘ to span the river and ride over the ancient town with its oppressive grandeur , and the moon was rising and lighting up the shore and houses as they rose one over the other in terrace fashion against the dark blue starry sky ’ . |
| 4 | Aberdeen 's latest figures are flattered by £201,000 of exceptional gains from the sale of Australian interests and investments as it cleared the decks for expansion in the UK which , it says , would cut overheads and increase liquidity . |
| 5 | No more was said except for Mum 's moans and groans as she struggled to get the bedding upstairs to the attic . |
| 6 | The residents of Monte Samana were just beginning to stir , and the smell of strong Spanish coffee wafted from open windows and balconies as she drove along the flower-edged lanes of the complex and out of the main gate towards the village . |
| 7 | Later that year a combined army of men led by Sigmar and Dwarfs led by King Kurgan met and defeated a huge horde of Goblins and Orcs as they attempted to cross the Worlds Edge Mountains at the Black Fire Pass . |
| 8 | But already the ships in the Morpork docks — laden with grain , cotton and timber , and coated with tar — were blazing merrily and , their moorings burnt to ashes , were breasting the river Ankh on the ebb tide , igniting riverside palaces and bowers as they drifted like drowning fireflies towards the sea . |
| 9 | Dreamtime legends tell that the Julunggul , in his guise as a gigantic serpent , dug out many rivers and waterholes as he writhed through the desert sand . |
| 10 | In many ways , the Lebanon of 1892 is still identifiable to us , for the various religious communities — the minority tribes — still live in the same villages and cities as they did then . |
| 11 | Mr Brady told Judge Leo Clarke QC he hurt his knees and ankles as he ran away . |
| 12 | It was , in the first place , a world not so much consisting of factories , employers and proletarians as one transformed by the enormous progress of its industrial sector . |
| 13 | Three men held the yak 's head down with ropes , their weight pitted against the great muscles of its neck and shoulders as it threw its head about , crazy with the pain of the knife in its withers . |
| 14 | Tenderly he wiped its mouth and nostrils and eyes as it coughed into life , vomiting saline nutrient over his hands . |
| 15 | There is even a fanciful tale that the young couple , Prince Gaythelus and Princess Scota , gave their name to the Gaels and Scots as they progressed through Europe to an eventual home in Ireland , taking the Stone of Destiny with them . |
| 16 | The pair of them loved searches , making us face the wall and spread our arms and legs as they felt all over us for some exciting trophy . |
| 17 | Sobbing , Herman Katz sank to the floor , drawing in his arms and legs as he assumed a foetal ball , trying to return to the safety of his mother 's womb . |
| 18 | And yet Miles appeared to have the same complement of arms and legs as he did , the same disposition of eyes , nose and mouth . |
| 19 | But on 30 October the regents once more affirmed the rights of the Crown : they ordered Hugh de Neville , the Chief Justice of the Forest , to cause the royal forests to be kept by the same metes and bounds as they had been in the time of King John before the war between him and his barons . |
| 20 | Such pains and miseries as they did not feel , they acted out : acting , indeed , at this level of ham had not been seen since the last World Cup , or the Peter O'Toole Macbeth . |
| 21 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 22 | The bearing of such a burden , as one historian has recently remarked , suggests that in moving from lightweight to heavyweight in the European balance of power while simultaneously acquiring an overseas empire , Britain owed as much to her clerks and administrators as she did to her soldiers , sailors , generals and admirals . |
| 23 | Well to-do visitors would have taken it as their right to be given a tour of the house and gardens as they travelled the country in past centuries — today visitors from all over the world come to Blenheim — their entrance fees paying for its up-keep . |
| 24 | Suddenly , one of the organisers called my number , I had to take off my socks and shoes as you had to do the jump in bare feet and I had to go over to get weighed again on different scales to make sure I was using the correct cord ( they were very safety conscious about every aspect of the jump ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Really and truly , ’ Laura told them both firmly , heedless of her smart dress and shoes as she knelt on the damp sand , her arms placed warmly about their two anxious figures . |
| 26 | But always the world in which you could go into a shop and buy as much bread and potatoes as you liked was remote . |
| 27 | Perhaps the most important aspect of the project discussed here was the establishment of an honest critical approach in the staff and parents as they worked towards real partnership . |
| 28 | Rory could hear the stamping , slapping feet move in time to the fiddles and accordions as they played a jig . |
| 29 | Had her feelings and longings as she had lain in the grass , remembering Dick and their lovemaking , her body crying out for a repetition of the act , forged a false link in her mind ? |
| 30 | In the first edition of this book we described at length the reactions evoked by the Report , its strengths and weaknesses as we saw them , and the developments that occurred in the year or so following the publication of Circular 11/77 . |