Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had come here as she guessed he would . |
| 3 | Sarella , half in and half out of the jeep , had frozen suddenly as her eyes met those of her host . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She was thinking about a telephone call which she had answered just as she was about to leave the house . |
| 7 | The doors had opened wide as he reached them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One that had gone even as he groped for it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | what had happened here as I presumed the telephone lines were down . |
| 13 | Ruth had begun early as she , Rachaela , had done . |
| 14 | Stitch 's nose had twitched eagerly as he took in the size of the Imperial . |
| 15 | His voice had hardened briefly as he added the caution , but when he went on again it was low and musing . |
| 16 | The muscles in his face had flexed tight as he spoke and his breathing had become uneven . |
| 17 | The skies had darkened ominously as she set out on her journey to the coast , but she was not unduly concerned about the dismal weather . |