Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I looked down a tube as empty as Outer Space , I pushed away from my board and dove for the bottom . |
| 2 | like a cabbage white as I forked out a fiver |
| 3 | ‘ I was personally told he was not concerned about my past so long as I kept up a volume of business , ’ he said . |
| 4 | The night shift volunteer was standing next to me getting ready to come on to the phones and as I came off a call he started to chat to me . |
| 5 | The whole operation was developing like a Grahame Greene novel as I walked up a dark country lane to the waiting car . |
| 6 | But of course , I told myself as I walked along an echoing corridor , it never did hurt nowadays . |
| 7 | I blame the fact that a crow chose to hover below me as I scrambled up a tricky bit of path , made more perilous by loose shifting gravel . |
| 8 | Most of the work is composed in six-line tail-rhyme stanzas , rhyming A A B C C B. There are usually two main stresses within the line of at least six syllables which may also be made coherent by the use of alliteration , internal rhyme and assonance , as , for instance , in the first stanza : ( As I travelled along a path I heard the tale of one , a spirited man , and proud ; he was wise in learning and splendid under his clothes , and clothed in fine array . ) |
| 9 | Indeed before we even come to the characterization of characters within the drama we find the poem itself being apparently characterized one way but then characterized another in the opening three stanzas : ( As I travelled along a path I heard the tale of one , a spirited man , and proud ; he was wise in learning and splendid under his clothes , and clothed in fine array . |
| 10 | As I dug up a bronze Roman belt-stud , I realised that the site was a mixture of historical periods . |
| 11 | ‘ Who did you say you were looking for ? ’ she asked suspiciously as I pulled up a weatherbeaten bus seat . |
| 12 | She stopped as I held up a finger . |
| 13 | At 1.30am , a 46-year-old was assaulted as she walked alone Hospital Lane and at 3am he attacked a 22-year-old as she walked along a path at Greystone Road . |
| 14 | The eighteen year old was punched as she walked along a path in Campbell Park in Milton Keynes . |
| 15 | She was grabbed from behind as she walked along a footpath near Monks Way in Milton Keynes . |
| 16 | She was grabbed from behind as she walked along a footpath near Monks Way in Milton Keynes . |
| 17 | The girl , who had started her paper round to earn money for Chrismas presents , was grabbed as she walked along an alleyway after finishing her Saturday morning deliveries . |
| 18 | But , as she stretched out a hand to stroke the mare , Maldita moved even closer to Luke , flattening her ears and lashing out at Perdita protectively with a hind leg . |
| 19 | ‘ Miss Russell ? ’ she queried as she stretched out a hand to the phone . |
| 20 | As she stretched out an arm to switch off the light she saw , on the marble-topped bedside table , the book which had been open on the bedcover when she had first visited the house . |
| 21 | A WOMAN who was spotted breastfeeding her baby as she drove along a busy main road was being hunted last night . |
| 22 | She paused and I could hear her brain cells creaking into action as she reached out a hand covered in enough costume jewellery to make a decent knuckle-duster . |
| 23 | The attacker went up to the woman as she rode around an area of the south London Common known as the arena , blocking her path when she tried to leave and twice attempting to pull her from her horse . |
| 24 | But even as she flung out a hand to save herself she was whisked off her feet and pulled into the secure haven of fitzAlan 's arms . |
| 25 | For the next couple of years , Sinitta was dog-less as she ran up an amazing string of chart hits with the guidance of the nowlegendary Stock , Aitken and Waterman . |
| 26 | As she swilled out a whisky , she caught the burning , envious eyes of her captive . |
| 27 | ‘ How long 's this been going on ? ’ she asked gently as she cleaned up a nasty cut on the woman 's arm . |
| 28 | Jenna came back to the present rapidly and painfully as she tripped over a fallen and partially sunken log . |
| 29 | Her eyes widened as she took on an air of great sadness . |
| 30 | Suddenly she came alive and her hazel eyes lit up as she took out a large album from a walnut bureau . |