Example sentences of "to [pron] [noun pl] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hating to eavesdrop , Belinda struggled to her feet again as Tom spoke . |
| 2 | One young woman is still as attached to her parents now as she was when she was small . |
| 3 | The third year student , known to his friends simply as Donm Lau is thought to have taken his own life just days from his final exams in modern history . |
| 4 | The Head , who had obviously prepared a lengthy moralising talk for this historic first assembly in the new sports hall rose to his feet just as the bell for the end of assembly rang . |
| 5 | He reached the doorway to his cellars just as one of the trolls , with a lazy flick of one ham-sized hand , sent his axe whirling across the room . |
| 6 | Her skirt had ridden up and she clung to his shoulders convulsively as she yielded to the sweet torment of his long fingers stroking over her thighs . |
| 7 | KEITH Curle goes back to his roots tonight as Manchester City face a survival battle . |
| 8 | Be prepared to centre yourself in revery , to give yourself up to your memories just as your sleeping self gives itself up to a dream . |
| 9 | These exercises , which are easily and quickly generated , can be presented to your students either as printed worksheets — you will be provided with the answers on a separate sheet — or can be put on to a floppy disk so that a student or group of students can work on screen . |