Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst blood would appear to have been associated with circumcision from the earliest times ( witness the account of Zipporah in Exodus 4.24–6 ) this character of the rite , as I hope shortly to show , assumed new dimensions and significances with the experience of the exile and the developments which I have just outlined . |
| 2 | Yet something was clearly wrong as I battled hard to find my rhythm . |
| 3 | There was no time to get back into the right position , take a breath and gently squeeze the trigger ; it was up and bang , and with my whole body unbalanced and both hands on the gun I fell forward , rolling as I did so to keep the gun out the sand . |
| 4 | My brain went some way up through the gear-box next morning as I padded downstairs to collect my pint of gold top . |
| 5 | It 's HVS in summer and it feels like it in winter , too , as I shiver upwards to join Steve at the stance : a misnomer if ever there was one — just room enough for four front points on an edge . |
| 6 | Coming out of the Musée Basque , and as you turn right to recross the Nive by the Pont Marengo , you can see facing you , a little upstream , a short sequence of the best , by which I mean the most distinctive , houses in Bayonne , narrow , half-timbered , six storeys high and standing none too straight . |
| 7 | What are people in Britain to make of this as you come here to present yourselves as a a future er lottery operator ? |
| 8 | God forgive me , you think , as you try desperately to get rid of them — and try equally hard not to mention anything about blood transfusions . |
| 9 | But of course there are times when you feel the need to run miles from a television studio , to seek relative anonymity away from strong lights , beckoning floor managers , and frantic messages in your ear-piece as you try simultaneously to deliver a dramatic link on a completely different subject . |
| 10 | There are relevant stair er Chairman which you can look out of place at the present moment of time but they will need to be addressed at some point in time in the future and therefore one could be forgiven for wanting to prioritise various but in general terms , the strategy that has been er looked at is the progress of St Albans in general , there may be small elements of it and some of these have already touched upon but in general that is no sound strategy er which over a period of time and in the process of that it will be essential to monitor erm the effect of some of the changes as you go forward to see in fact whether the other elements of strategy that were erm put in to that er work were in fact still necessary and whether they should be have some . |
| 11 | And do not think such an object can be disguised for that is manifest nonsense as you have only to try to discover . |
| 12 | Instead , she felt tired and drained suddenly as she walked across to join the sergeant at the window . |
| 13 | ‘ What 's up with his lordship ? ’ she asked as she walked across to drop a kiss on her mother 's proffered cheek . |
| 14 | She left him in front of a café and as she drove away to follow the complex instructions back to the raccordo she saw him in her mirror , standing with his hand still raised in the sort of military salute with which he 'd taken his leave of her . |
| 15 | The cross-over neck gaped treacherously as she fought silently to free herself , revealing a smooth swell of breast without the support of a bra . |
| 16 | Beth feared for the children 's sight as she lurched forward to grab the branch . |
| 17 | One day as she tripped forward to greet me I had , without pausing to wonder if my embrace would be acceptable to her , bent down and kissed her . |
| 18 | It alerted him at once and he took a tight grip on her arm as she swung away to leave him . |
| 19 | As she began hastily to descend the rickety stairs she heard Lord Cumbermound say , ‘ You 're quite right , Thomas , not to let women into the priesthood . |
| 20 | And these questions pursued her , buzzing like mosquitoes , as she walked up Marylebone High Street with her briefcase , as she crossed the Edgware Road , as she joined the conference group for sherry in the Westminster Suite , as she discovered that Edgar had rightly warned her that conversing with Japanese was not easy , as she ate her indifferent luncheon of Maryland chicken , as she listened to Professor Yamamoto speak on Spenser 's reinterpretation of Freud 's interpretation of folie à deux in the classic case of Orphan Eva and her mother , as she delivered her own paper , as she attempted desperately to follow the ensuing discussion , of which she could grasp only one word in ten : all through this crazy jumble of non-language and misunderstanding , of erudition and impenetrable obscurity , of meaningless signs and uninterpretable eye contact , the mosquitoes buzzed and nipped and drew blood . |
| 21 | Blood matted the blond hair , and Lindsey took a deep breath as she leaned closer to peer at the wound . |
| 22 | Her hands were shaking as she leaned forward to lift the cup to her mouth , but he must n't see that , and she replaced it quickly before she spilled a drop . |
| 23 | As she leaned forward to do so , before our very eyes the trout leapt from the water , about three feet in the air , did a neat twist and landed at my feet in the bottom of the boat . |
| 24 | As she leaned forward to twitch another grape from the bunch and almost toss it into her mouth he could see the faint freckles which smudged the dark forehead , the glisten of hairs above a carved upper lip . |
| 25 | Marsco 's cold gaze was fixed on Jinneth as she leaned forward to speak to him , her hand on his amid the clutter of the table . |
| 26 | Her cotton dress was rent almost from the armpit to the hem and as she leaned forward to bring a saucer of water to the lips of a wounded man , the Collector glimpsed three polished ribs and the shrunken globe of her breast ; modesty was one of the many considerations which no longer troubled her . |
| 27 | As she leaned forward to offer them her pullover bellied out and he caught a glimpse of her breasts , almost adolescent in size , but with large and prominent nipples . |
| 28 | But as she stood aside to let them enter he saw that her wrists and ankles were slim and delicate , curiously at odds with the sturdy body , heavy-busted , almost voluptuous under the high-necked blouse . |
| 29 | She had him completely relaxed , and wallowing in her fellation , as she worked patiently to bring him to orgasm . |
| 30 | Germany 's Seizinger , narrow leader in the battle for the World Cup overall title , fell on the second leg of a giant slalom in Are , Sweden as she tried desperately to make up for lost time . |