Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb -s] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irresistible charm is brought to bear again as she butters up a worthy old bag ( ‘ unpleasant ’ ) who has a few tedious objections to our Hildamay waltzing off with her granddaughter . |
| 2 | As far as most women are concerned the only enviable thing about a penis is the ability it confers on the owner to pee out of a coach window as it powers along a motorway when the bladder feels like bursting and the driver refuses to stop . |
| 3 | Apparently Tom DiCillo cut his cinematic teeth working with Jim Jarmusch , and his directorial debut Johnny Suede certainly shows signs of the latter 's influence , as it doodles out a familiarly minimal comedy around a cool fool who learns the limits of his own hip moves . |
| 4 | As it passes over a toll point in the road ( essentially a wire loop buried in the surface ) a radio beam from the loop will interrogate the number plate and feed back the vehicle number to a central computer . |
| 5 | " Early " is deictic here , but only inasmuch as it sets up an opposition to a notional " late " . |
| 6 | A local authority may assess a child 's needs at the same time as it carries out an assessment required under any other statutory provision . |
| 7 | Newry were without the services of Erroll Lutton as he sweats out a three match suspension , but the return of Stephen Garvey and the addition of Ritchie Nummy to Newry 's back line-up certainly seemed to work well . |
| 8 | As he follows up a security leak about a number of suspicious deaths in the nuclear industry , around him a more macabre series of murders are taking place . |
| 9 | Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up a fastest time of the day . |