Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your jewels Eachuinn Odhar gave to me , to return to you or not as I judged you innocent or guilty . |
| 2 | I asked my neighbour to turn down her records as I found it impossible to concentrate and she said the only way she could cope with the stress of her reality was to blast her music . |
| 3 | It almost broke her heart when she saw that darting look of imitation cross his face as she brought him bad news . |
| 4 | She crawled back to the door and got to her feet , taking a deep steadying breath as she reached for the handle , grimacing slightly as she eased it open and stepped through the doorway , sending up a silent prayer that no creaking floorboard would announce her presence prematurely . |
| 5 | Maggie looked at him with the light of love as she kissed him good night . |
| 6 | But they were unable to spin out their game for long ; impatience got the better of them and they returned the puppy , which stood shivering under its mother 's tongue as she licked it clean of foreign influences . |
| 7 | Snow was banked behind it , dredging against the bottom as she pushed it open . |
| 8 | Indubitably it was full of madmen , and women too , much as she found them fun to be with . |
| 9 | I do n't know what view of these events my uncles took as we woke them early and followed them around as faithfully as any spaniel — maybe that was why they often nipped off to the pub in the evenings . |
| 10 | But … but , as Mama said , as long as we kept it clean and it was only for a short time … |
| 11 | Gilbert had been standing next to them and almost fell down the stairs in his efforts to get away from those doors as something shouldered them open . |
| 12 | Meantime Berndt gushed with the oil of social graces , pouring her a glass of wine she had no intention of drinking , ( she remembered the Tjerssens as Friend had shown her them , smiling as they gave you ruby venom ) , pouting when she refused his macaroons . |
| 13 | They also loved their partner to take the initiative as they found it boring if sex was always a case of the man trying it on . |
| 14 | In 1950 the Russians had their headquarters in what had been the Imperial Hotel , a fine baroque building which the Russians had quickly turned into a slum as they found it hard to understand the intricacies of a modern plumbing and toilet system which few of them had ever seen before . |
| 15 | Their publication was a speculation which — so far as it made me known & procured me employment in Zoological drawing — answered my expectations — but in matters of money occasioned me considerable loss . |
| 16 | The Buckley-Valeo ruling supported the rise in campaign spending as it declared it unconstitutional to limit the personal contributions of a candidate for their own campaign . |
| 17 | Having registered , he set about ordering his life as he saw it developing , by giving himself over to the muse , by associating with those whose lives found proper space for literary reflection and endeavour , by getting close to that bohemian existence which he loved and from which all modern art seemed to spring . |
| 18 | As he reached it Ipuky called to him once more . |
| 19 | As he drew her close to him , she let herself fall against him . |
| 20 | I walked like some sleepwalker as he showed me empty rooms and a steep , stone-vaulted cellar . |
| 21 | However , as he found it possible to reformulate it in terms of his own engineering type of mathematics ( which is not ) , he did not challenge it . |
| 22 | He followed his robots ( two children as robot nurses ) around , whispering instructions to them and occasionally taking over and doing the tasks for them as he found it difficult to be precise in his instructions . |
| 23 | Robyn asked as he pulled her close to him once again . |
| 24 | Barbara tried to follow , but Duvall slammed the door against her and she cried out in pain as he pulled it open again , grabbed her arm and threw her into the office . |
| 25 | As he pushed them open , they made a great scraping noise and Endill had to cover his ears because it was so loud . |
| 26 | They exchanged glances and crowded behind him as he pushed it open . |
| 27 | As he pushed it open a powerful gust of wind swept in from outside . |
| 28 | The door went EEEEEEEAAAAAAAW as he pushed it open . |
| 29 | As he yanked it free the saw shot up and scythed into the cable . |