Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lloyd 's List later cited a deal whereby the Pacific Valour was to shift a cargo of 240,000 tonnes from the Gulf to Japan at W37 , apparently a fairly durable rate , as the same publication reported W37-40 as the range over which discussion occurred for a voyage from Kharg to Japan in 1984 . |
| 2 | All order became lost as the battle opened out and a struggling press of men fought for the ramparts , the rooftops , the alleys between buildings . |
| 3 | Greetings became elaborate as the leader indicated the four glasses in front of each of us . |
| 4 | It became obvious as the system model was expanded to activity and then information level that the volume of data produced was becoming impossible to handle and comprehend using manual methods only . |
| 5 | But this sort of arrangement too became rarer as the century went on . |
| 6 | His face turned thoughtful as the waiter approached with the main courses . |
| 7 | The papal curia acted much as the curia regis and the cardinals became primarily officers of state and administrators who could be used as ambassadors or legates — a position they had reached by the early years of the twelfth century . |
| 8 | Oxford got better as the game went on . |
| 9 | The pink tubes feeding her nose became redundant as the heart stopped pumping , Rose 's blood left her face , and Lee herself started gasping for breath . |
| 10 | However , it was a D. Davidson that I rang first as the address was familiar . |
| 11 | And it got worse as the day wore on , especially since it began to rain . |
| 12 | It felt cold as the powder reached his tastebuds . |
| 13 | Most of the other dog-owners at that time were in a hurry , presumably with jobs to go to ; the joggers in brilliant track-suits with self-absorbed faces grew fewer as the frost rimed the tennis court . |
| 14 | I stopped walking and stared wide-eyed as the rest of the senescent strollers proceeded out of this dimension . |
| 15 | Bourani seemed greenly remote from all that ; so far , and yet so near ; its small mysteries , which grew smaller as the week passed , no more than an added tang , or hazard , in its other promise of civilized pleasure . |
| 16 | The Cheshire player took 5–32 as the home side struggled . |
| 17 | She must have dozed a little and the train grew stuffy as the sun hit the windows . |
| 18 | Susan protested that it was all right ; but it was very painful , and grew worse as the evening wore on . |
| 19 | The bond between the mother country and her former colonies grew stronger as the century wore to its close . |
| 20 | It is to be presumed membership reached 200 as the entrance fee was re-imposed for the bond Redemption Fund which then stood at £35 11s. 1d. … enough to redeem 1 x £25 bond . |
| 21 | The roar of water grew louder as the path continued through a wood . |
| 22 | The crowd fell silent as the starter called us to our blocks . |
| 23 | He fell silent as the door to the dining room opened and one of the maids entered with the first course . |
| 24 | Then everyone fell silent as the preacher entered and the service began . |
| 25 | Partisan influences were strong and became stronger as the election approached . |
| 26 | When he was asked to do a stall , he became panic-stricken as the glider stalled , and it was obviously unsafe to allow him to go solo . |
| 27 | The strain this imposed became unbearable as the gap widened . |
| 28 | I kept to my itinerary , turning off along the Achiltibuie road , passing below the serrated skyline of Stac Polly , its upper rocks tinged pink as the sun rose over the horizon . |
| 29 | The playground , which up to then had been filled with shrieks and the shouting of children at play , all at once became silent as the grave . |
| 30 | Madrid : Shares closed lower as the government posted worse than expected inflation figures . |