Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a few minutes of silence as everyone concentrated on their food . |
| 2 | My own solitude was as nothing compared with their constantly patrolled loneliness , without hope of escape . |
| 3 | As I warmed to my eulogy of his skills , . |
| 4 | The matter has been under negotiation , off and on , for several years now , as I remember from my time at the Home Office . |
| 5 | Another cup of coffee is ready as I bite into my breakfast . |
| 6 | As I settle into my piece of floor , she adjusts herself and smiles at me . |
| 7 | As I looked at his stern face , I knew I could go anywhere in the world with him as a colleague , but I could never lose my freedom by marrying him . |
| 8 | And as I looked at my little daughter , bright-eyed and ready to challenge the world , I could only pray that I would be ‘ good enough ’ in the new dance that was just beginning . |
| 9 | But as I looked into her lovely face , I knew I could not live with the lie . |
| 10 | But Miss Kenton had departed , and sure enough , as I continued with my work , an occasional footstep or some other sound would serve to remind me she was still there outside the door . |
| 11 | As I stepped into my skis and shuffled to the edge of the steep snow slope , I remembered Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , tailed to the edge of a very high cliff by the posse . |
| 12 | As I mention in my letter , a footway along this section it could help to avoid accidents and even save lives . |
| 13 | In the latter case , will , in general , not be equivalent to for any other morpheme in the sentence ; ( 17 ) , in the following newspaper headline : ( 17 ) Laos threatens to attack new village the referential locus of new is the E of an implied nominal attack which does not in fact appear ; it will in fact only be co-incidence if Ar is identical with the E of a morpheme expressed elsewhere in the same structure , as in ( 18 ) , the title of an English madrigal : ( 18 ) as I go to my naked bed ( We return to the notion of referential locus at several points in the remainder of our text . ) |
| 14 | We must have been closer friends than I recall , for as I go through my library 40 years later , I find quite a number of splendid books inscribed ‘ in friendship ’ from Andrew in his scrawling hand , including Henrik van Loon 's ‘ Book of Lives ’ , ‘ One Men 's Meat ’ by E.B. White , ‘ Women in Love ’ by D.H . |
| 15 | As I indicated to your wife . |
| 16 | Even where contact is frequent and based upon mutual affection , that does not mean necessarily that mothers and daughters are significant sources of support for each other , as I indicated in my discussion of emotional support . |
| 17 | An inner excitement gripped me as I saw in my mind 's eye an image of Clare trying to hobble round her bedroom . |
| 18 | Lili watched me thoughtfully as I put on my skirt and blouse . |
| 19 | As I related in my Opus article , in 1979 1 indeed recorded two of those three mechanical organs , the undated organ ( Teubner ) and that of 1793 ( Veyder-Malberg ) , at their slowest speeds . |
| 20 | As I struggled with my heavy bag at Navan , a strong old man ran to help me . |
| 21 | But at once , for very fear that the bearded man who had reached out as I struggled with my hamper ( ‘ No , no , I do very well , thank you ’ ) might follow me and find out everything , I hailed a porter and then a cab , assuming a confidence I did not feel . |
| 22 | But to me as I struggled with his detoxifying diet , he was a disembodied , stern sounding voice , a god who had handed down the law . |
| 23 | As I struggled to my feet and started to search around in the grass for my rifle , two medics were coming towards me . |
| 24 | ’ Just barely , ’ I said through gritted teeth as I struggled to my feet . |
| 25 | That morning , as I lay with my teeth chattering in anticipation on the wooden floor of the supply hut , I heard five more explosions . |
| 26 | As I lay on my back and tried to visualize those brigades of white cells marching to my rescue , all I saw were those other cadavers so plentiful in our ancient cathedrals . |
| 27 | Everything went smoothly so long as I lay on my tummy , but when they turned me on to my back I was assailed with a searing pain there . |
| 28 | But I suppose I must have told them how things were between me and Richard because as I lay on my bed , in my old room , I heard Aunt Lilian telephoning . |
| 29 | I also know he was never tired of gazing at me as I lay on my front . |
| 30 | The sound rang in my ears long after he had fallen asleep : when Richard sat beside me as I lay on our bed , I thought I could still hear him through the wall . |