Example sentences of "[adv prt] as [pron] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WORKMEN spoke today of the constant threat they live with day by day : that they will be mercilessly gunned down as they go about earning a living . |
| 2 | Marcus rolled his sleeve down as they walked along . |
| 3 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 4 | ‘ He was coming down this path from the ferry , and here he was struck down as he passed by . |
| 5 | DETECTIVES are hunting the killer of a friendly bus driver gunned down as he walked up the driveway to his North-East home . |
| 6 | Robert waved her down as he leapt out , and she was obliged to wait . |
| 7 | It jolted up the lane , slowed down as it came out into the open area in front of the quarry gates , and stopped . |
| 8 | I 'd stamp up and down as I walked along , and up would pop the balls that had been buried in the sand . |
| 9 | The lorry-driver jumped down as I leapt out of the mini and ran to the black car . |
| 10 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |
| 11 | She saw one of them stumble and took her chance , moving in as he staggered up , catching him beneath the chin with stiffened fingers . |
| 12 | ( ’ All right , so you 're married , ’ a badgeless fellow chimed in as he slid by . |
| 13 | Documentation , too , is best built in as you go along . |
| 14 | to I mean ideally , ideally it 'll be better to fill it in as you go along |
| 15 | And the worst of it is that you do n't even see those people you knock over as you charge along . ’ |
| 16 | Oh , do n't worry , ’ her bitter hurt spilled over as he swung round , ‘ I 'll see you get your money . ’ |
| 17 | His head sang with pain and his stomach heeled over as he stood up , his hand flailing for the back of a chair to support him . |
| 18 | He almost lost his balance and tipped the chair over as he scrambled back down to floor level with it . |
| 19 | Thinking it over as she drove back , Sophie was conscious of mixed feelings . |
| 20 | Mulling it over as she strolled along in the morning sunshine , passed occasionally by a battered Renault or a woman on a pushbike with a basket of baguettes swinging from the handlebars , Melissa felt more and more uneasy at her friend 's obvious emotional commitment to Bonard . |
| 21 | The lights of Soufrière twinkled a long way off as they set off into the black , and headed north for Marigot Bay . |
| 22 | Do you try to take all the tops off as they die off ? |
| 23 | When Nan rushed in , pulling her hat and coat off as she came in , she laughingly looked at the clock and said , ‘ Made it all but a minute , miss . |
| 24 | So you 'd just write it as , I mean as it 's minus one , you can take it off as you go along , but it 's , sometimes it 'll be a minus six or something , so write it as two point nine nine squared minus one . |
| 25 | The radio was tuned to the BBC , to her surprise , but Rory switched it off as he got in . |
| 26 | The stimulus of the Commander 's benzedrine tablets was wearing off as he swam out to sea after three hours ' creeping and sliding around the beach , and now , his senses dulled by a chilling exhaustion , he felt the first pangs of doubt : would Roger Courtney see the flickering torch among the waves before an enemy patrol boat caught sight of it ? |
| 27 | There are no official rules and people tend to make them up as they go along . |
| 28 | They make them up as they go along . |
| 29 | But , in the final resort , EC government leaders can make the rules up as they go along . " |
| 30 | They make them up as they go along . |