Example sentences of "as [noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing , ’ she said then looked up as Doyle returned with her bourbon . |
| 2 | As Dan noted in his Flight Log , ‘ Took photos of Mary Alice — What a mess ! ’ |
| 3 | But , as Olga said in her letter to me , one weeps more often because one is not free . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've got a big stick , ’ mentioned Punch confidingly to his audience , as Judy appeared with her baby . |
| 5 | Claudia pressed the door-handle in vain as Roman laughed at her efforts . |
| 6 | As Gassendi insists in his Objections to Descartes , there is no need forever to be distrustful of them . |
| 7 | Morley winced as Kelly appeared at her front door , her shoulder strapped up , a graze down the side of her face and two blackened eyes . |
| 8 | As Madeleine listened to her brother 's quiet , sensible voice , her emotions seesawed from rebellion to anxiety . |
| 9 | She surfaced , gasped for air , and kicked out with a scream of laughter as Fernando grabbed at her bikini-bottom . |
| 10 | And as Swindon found to their cost , it 's what happens after that matters . |
| 11 | Swaggering is obviously best done in the full-length format , but tempered by the ‘ unique British context of compromise , Protestant seriousness and distrust of display ’ , as Wilton says in his eloquent introduction to the catalogue ( Tate Gallery Publications ) . |
| 12 | The sun caught her dazzling hair , and as Edouard sprang to his feet she smiled at him . |
| 13 | ‘ Come in , come in , ’ Nagel said as Nordern rapped on his door . |
| 14 | David Rush , Brian Mooney and Warren Hawke stand by as Sunderland go for their fourth win in a row . |
| 15 | On the other hand , as Acheson said in his memoirs , there are limits on the extent to which one may successfully coerce an ally . |
| 16 | It is quite wrong to posit a pathological process , as Aristotle does with his theory of katharsis , whereby the audience is purged of pity and fear by the solemn events of the play . |
| 17 | There was a pause ; Melissa overheard mutterings of ‘ shocked ’ , ‘ sick ’ , ‘ screamed ’ , as Sophie scribbled in her notebook . |
| 18 | She stood in the window , holding back the heavy curtains , watching as Spencer climbed into his carriage and , with a wave to her , bowled off down the drive towards the roadway . |
| 19 | As soon as David moved into my flat , what used to be the dining room was no longer the dining room — it was now full of audio equipment , stylophones , keyboards , amplifiers and huge speakers . |
| 20 | The farm workers who became unemployed by this could move to towns & get jobs in factories & mines , which are also being improved , as are the living conditions in the towns , as Lucy described in her speech . |
| 21 | It was ‘ perfectly beastly ’ as Warnie said in his diary , to see ‘ P's grave with its fresh turned earth and a handful of withered daffodils at its head alongside Mamy 's . |
| 22 | As soon as Travis got to his feet , she was beside him . |
| 23 | Kellerman grinned at her but the gesture faded instantly as Donna spat in his face , the mucus sliding down his cheek thickly like gelatinous tears . |
| 24 | In the summer of that year , Jack and Roman had a common interest in the talk in Hollywood , which was , as Polanski recalled in his autobiography , largely about the drugs and sex culture , a topic fanned through their own recent and separate films , and then by the tragic events in the Polanski house . |
| 25 | We 've got ta buy players Deane 's having a mare and Hodge is n't premier league material — he 's had a fairly long run in the side and has n't produced as much as Rocky did in his few opportunities . |
| 26 | We 've got ta buy players Deane 's having a mare and Hodge is n't premier league material — he 's had a fairly long run in the side and has n't produced as much as Rocky did in his few opportunities . |
| 27 | As Galadriel says of her Mirror ( I , 378 ) : it ‘ shows many things , and not all have yet come to pass . |
| 28 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |
| 29 | But Peerson must be placed with other essentially conservative musicians such as John Hilton ‘ the younger ’ ( 1599–1657 ) who were nevertheless conscious of the new trend , as Hilton shows in his Ayres , or fa la 's for three voyces ( 1627 ) and solo songs , and still more in his dramatic dialogues ‘ Job ’ and ‘ King Soloman and the two Harlotts ’ . |
| 30 | As Weatherall suggested in his 1992 Harveian oration , this implies either that the positive selective forces favouring the thrifty genotype were not as strong in Europeans or that the negative selective forces of a sedentary , well nourished lifestyle have operated for sufficiently long to diminish the frequency of the genotype . |