Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four priestesses led the man over to a freshly dug grave , where he lay down as the goat-faced figure produced a black cockerel . |
| 2 | She saw herself , her head a foam of lacy white like the shining tumbleweed caught in the evening light as it floats through the air , handed on to the bar stool , her little feet — her good point — showing beneath the hem of her skirt where it rode up as she adjusted herself . |
| 3 | He stopped , exclaiming in surprise , so we gathered round as he scraped the floor with his finger . |
| 4 | This seems an effort to fit a cult-statue into a building with a sacrificial pit ; and though it was in profile that one saw these statues as one came in or went out , if one looked up as one passed under the beam which hid them , one saw them again , carved in very low relief on its underside , standing frontal and looking down at one : altogether an astonishing conception . |
| 5 | I looked at it was twenty past eight cos he pulled up as I drew my curtains . |
| 6 | Because she rolled over as she fell , the baby landed on top of her and so was cushioned from any physical harm . |
| 7 | Boots are the ones worn by George Best aeons before they crapped up as motifs in Yohji shoe collections ’ |
| 8 | When I glanced back as I opened the gate , they were standing still , in a discomfited little group : they had not meant , I suppose , to hurt the child . |
| 9 | When she took over as First Lady four years ago , she was hailed as the freshest breath of air to hit Washington in years . |
| 10 | A frisson wriggled down her spine but the room held no other occupant and though she turned round as soon as she decently could , Berndt Tjerssen contrived to look like a sweet , chubby old man . |
| 11 | When we met up as planned , it soon became apparent that Paul had in fact researched the matter in hand extremely thoroughly , and I had an impressive number of addresses and names of contacts to take back to Katrina . |
| 12 | Evidently this belonged to the couple , for they settled down as though at home and made no objection when Hazel did the same . |
| 13 | LUCINDA Murray and Mary Thomsom have a similar aim as they started out as Burghley three-day event leaders in today 's cross-country section at Stamford . |
| 14 | Thirty-four years later , Diana Rigg used garlic to curtail her love scenes with George Lazenby when he took over as James Bond for his only screen appearance as 007 in On Her Majesty 's Secret Service in 1969 . |
| 15 | Anyway , I 'd already found a seat when he jumped on as the train was about to leave . |
| 16 | The rather handsome Perpendicular church of St Andrew in Curry Rivel where the ceremony took place was soon to become a familiar enough place for Benjamin , as he took over as its organist to complement his work as the local headmaster . |