Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still however was in a sufficient bad temper to punch Jocelyn in the mouth as she brought him tea . |
| 2 | She knew she was n't looking her best at the moment , but they looked the type to know quality when they saw it she thought , as she fluttered he awnings at them , colourless now , tattered and torn by the wind . |
| 3 | She grudged the muffling of the violin as she dragged her Fair Isle jersey over her head . |
| 4 | Next day I tried to question our landlady about walking to Ipsarion as she served us breakfast on the marble terrace under the walnut tree . |
| 5 | But last night , as she left her New York apartment , she said angrily : ‘ It 's not true . ’ |
| 6 | As she said it Nutty thought , three quid for an hour 's work . |
| 7 | ‘ How was your first day as Damian 's secretary ? ’ he asked weakly , but his eyes gleamed with a new reason to live , and he listened eagerly as she told him half-truths about her new job . |
| 8 | In seconds , his breath was warm on her cheek , and her eyes flew open as she felt him chest to chest above her . |
| 9 | She was surprised to discover he was perfectly adept as a painter and decorator — though why she should be surprised she did n't really know , she reflected a touch grouchily as she watched him work . |
| 10 | ‘ Our Blessed Lord lies here , ’ she told me as she handed me altar cloths and corporals to iron . |
| 11 | She must have felt guilty about not inviting me as she gave me £1 to get myself home . |
| 12 | His tormentors had snapped off the lights as they wished him goodnight , and it was completely dark . |
| 13 | At the end of the tunnel there was another crossroads , and as they entered it Jotan appeared , sword in hand . |
| 14 | They rehearsed the scene over and over again and as they repeated it Willie believed more than ever that he was the old man . |
| 15 | I used to sit transfixed as he told us stories about some of these DPs , as they were called . |
| 16 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 17 | HIS hands shook as he made me coffee . |
| 18 | As he touched it Ramlal imagined the great gleaming motor-pump that they planned to set on the river bank to irrigate their fields . |
| 19 | As he opened it Patrick Kelly walked inside . |
| 20 | As he opened it Schellenberg called , ‘ During the nineteen thirties Liam Devlin was one of the most notorious gunmen in the IRA . |
| 21 | Alone and friendless , she had struck up a casual friendship with Dermot as he showed her Dublin . |
| 22 | He could also be more bluntly manipulative : on one occasion he walked up to a sailor , with his girlfriend at the bar , saying , as he gave him £20 , ‘ When you 've finished with her , come and see Auntie Minton , she 's got plenty more . ’ |
| 23 | Broken apart by force , the lid splintered , the box shed a handful of stones and a drift of dead leaves as he turned it upside down and shook it ruefully . |