Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite these optimistic thoughts , and his excitement , Ybreska stopped singing abruptly as he began to walk along the track . |
| 2 | Like Maxwell , smoothy Hunter tried to come across as everyone 's friend , especially at Christmas when , dressed as Santa , he handed gifts to children of staff . |
| 3 | Everyone hastened to stand aside as he made for the door . |
| 4 | Ryan 's eyes seemed to bulge even as she watched , and she threw herself frantically towards them . |
| 5 | It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day . |
| 6 | Mr Lewis 's smile seemed to broaden slightly as he said this . |
| 7 | It was also noticed that he ceased to whistle unconsciously as he walked up the aisle from the vestry . |
| 8 | ‘ Ca n't take it , huh ? ’ she teased , then yelped and began laughing helplessly as he yanked her up and rolled to hold her captive beneath him . |
| 9 | From a relatively flat and gentle start our clearly marked path soon began to lead upwards as we rounded the corner by South Eggardon Farm . |
| 10 | Coming back round by the house for the third time , she got quite above herself , and the bike began to wobble alarmingly as she fought to control it . |
| 11 | It began to rain steadily as they stopped the jeep where the track met two barely discernible footpaths . |
| 12 | The audience began to trickle away as he told a series of long , rambling stories to which he forgot the punchlines , conducted a hesitant affair with somebody else 's wife , and announced half-baked plans for an ideal world . |
| 13 | She started to come again as he tried to slide his whole hand deep into her soaked vagina . |
| 14 | At age eleven I had gone away from my parents ' school to a boarding school in Herefordshire , and remembered crying miserably as my mother and father drove off down the drive , leaving me to be looked after by one of the older boys . |
| 15 | He had come here as she guessed he would . |
| 16 | Sarella , half in and half out of the jeep , had frozen suddenly as her eyes met those of her host . |
| 17 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 18 | Lydia had once read a women's-magazine-type romance in book-form and her mind had felt then as her stomach felt now — ever so slightly destroyed . |
| 19 | She was thinking about a telephone call which she had answered just as she was about to leave the house . |
| 20 | The doors had opened wide as he reached them . |
| 21 | Molly 's sleep had been deep and dreamless but she woke up early , saw Hugh unconscious beside her and replaced the sheet he had kicked away as she might cover one of the children . |
| 22 | The exiles from Ecuador — more accustomed to jungle and soggy heat — had gasped unashamedly as we rounded the bend above the cliffs , and they remained quite mute , awestruck , as we circled down into town and parked outside the Hotel Eberhardt for a dish of the king crab , centolla , and a mug of beer . |
| 23 | Mozart was by no means forgotten after his death : on the contrary , his reputation continued to spread widely as his music became available through publications and performances of the operas ( especially The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni ) . |
| 24 | One that had gone even as he groped for it . |
| 25 | Her imagination had run wild as she had fantasised tirelessly about how it would feel to have him hold her , his mouth pressed in passion against her own . |
| 26 | what had happened here as I presumed the telephone lines were down . |
| 27 | Up until the solo I just had to think constantly as I was playing . |
| 28 | Ruth had begun early as she , Rachaela , had done . |
| 29 | Stitch 's nose had twitched eagerly as he took in the size of the Imperial . |
| 30 | His voice had hardened briefly as he added the caution , but when he went on again it was low and musing . |