Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's funny you should ask because I bumped into her just as I was coming back from the loo . |
| 2 | Although Preston still referred to it privately as the God slot , as he had indicated to Kate it made little or no reference to the Almighty . |
| 3 | She was getting quite neurotic , Harriet reflected , and the same thought occurred to her now as she checked her image in the full length mirror , tucking her camisole top more neatly in at the waist of her pants and straightening the ornamental clasp of the loose belt she had fastened around her hips . |
| 4 | Shocked into immobility , her heart racing with suffocating speed , she gaped at him stupidly as he added , ‘ Welcome to the Ca ’ del Leone . ’ |
| 5 | It exploded inside him just as the last notes of his symphony died away . |
| 6 | He lay back by the open window with his eyes closed and the warm breathless air came to him just as in another cooler season heat fanned from the grid lower down the wall . |
| 7 | He glanced at her briefly as he said , ‘ I have n't checked the answering machine . |
| 8 | He glanced at her quickly as he opened his car door . |
| 9 | A low rumble of thunder made her skin break out in a fine rash of goosepimples , and Julius glanced at her sharply as he noticed them . |
| 10 | You talked about everything else as you usually do . |
| 11 | Gasping with desperate exertion , she got the canoe into the water , and leapt into it just as he seemed to realise what she was doing . |
| 12 | She gave it back after reading it , and he went through it carefully as though he had never seen it . |
| 13 | And he thought as a result that he knew about everything else as well and Brenda , he did n't . |
| 14 | His hand reached for hers again as they went into what might have been a salon in the heyday of the old house . |
| 15 | She stared after him mutinously as he went from the room , willing him to bump his head as he went through the door , but to her disappointment Dr Penry Vaughan ducked his tall head with the grace and dexterity of long practice . |
| 16 | She ate as directed by Taggy , and made no fuss when that dame looked after her much as she had herself done for her deceased employer — nursing her and acting as lady 's maid , and combing out her troublesome copper hair , until Theda felt strong enough to perform this office for herself . |
| 17 | It did n't bear thinking of , but I thought of nothing else as I prepared to go down to breakfast . |
| 18 | And I thought of something else as well . |
| 19 | It seemed to her a happy coincidence that Robert ( she thought of him now as Robert ) should write inviting her to Yorkshire for the weekend . |
| 20 | And perhaps her friend was right , Lisa thought to herself now as she sank back in her armchair in front of the gas fire , put her feet up at last and took a mouthful of her cocoa . |
| 21 | A woman with a dog stared at them curiously as she passed . |
| 22 | Smiles came from within , they were n't just a facial movement , and she stared at him assessingly as she wondered how she could have been such a fool . |
| 23 | He just walked into her room , closed the door and came across to her , and Maggie stared at him wildly as he took her arm , drew her from the balcony and shut the french window , |
| 24 | Leonora stared at him blankly as he went into the kitchen , wondering what she 'd done to incur his displeasure again . |
| 25 | He stared at me blankly as I held him forward until the spasm passed . |
| 26 | blinked at me blearily as I told him we had better ring the hospital . |
| 27 | The clerk looked at her oddly as she took her purse out of her school satchel and carefully counted out the exact money . |
| 28 | The man looked at her carefully as she nodded . |
| 29 | The man looked at her curiously as he passed , touched his cap and muttered a curt good evening , which she acknowledged equally briefly . |
| 30 | He looked at her questioningly as she hesitated . |