Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A writer called Thomas Carlyle described it in 1824 as ‘ A frightful scene … a dense cloud of pestilential smoke hangs over it forever … and at night the whole region becomes like a volcano spitting fire from a thousand tubes of brick . ’ |
| 2 | She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair . |
| 3 | She thanked him for that as well . |
| 4 | He reminded me of this as we sat on the beach watching Ted and Carwyn having their hopes dashed on the Pipeline reef . |
| 5 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |