Example sentences of "as [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So as my red skims the pocket , he tries very hard to say ‘ Bad luck ’ . |
| 2 | As my breath scratches the last scribbles , and I write |
| 3 | This history should be looked on as my attempt to explore the history of the College so as best to understand why it has become what it is today . |
| 4 | Certainly I did not regard it as my job to defend the departmental budget just because it was the departmental budget . |
| 5 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 6 | I found that the edge of my left hand was cramped up when I attempted to negotiate the upper frets and any urgency in so doing was rewarded by a considerable jolt as my hand hit the buffers , so to speak . |
| 7 | I encountered the reality of a penitential pilgrimage the moment I woke and levered my stiff limbs off the hard school-room floor where we slept last night , and winced as my blister contacted the floor . |
| 8 | But as my mouth framed the words the little man looked down at me appealingly as though he knew what I was going to say . |
| 9 | If the remedy is homœopathically accurate then it becomes increasingly beneficial as its dose approaches the ideal degree of smallness for gentle action . |
| 10 | It would be possible to set about this exercise with the assumption that legal regulation of family and personal behaviour is law insofar as its pedigree passes the appropriate test . |
| 11 | Yet as its name suggests the system 's most distinctive feature is the transferability of votes , and since they are in fact transferred in large quantities it seems paradoxical to ignore them . |
| 12 | As its name implies the muscle , when it contracts , will flex the digit . |
| 13 | The opening of the Aswan Dam in 1970 was also initially considered to be beneficial to Egypt 's agricultural productivity , as its capacity to control the Nile 's sometimes erratic flow facilitated the conversion of all arable land to perennial cropping . |
| 14 | And even as its sound struck the cage about him , there was a crash and a judder and the sky was falling in upon him from the darkening night . |
| 15 | This has as its main thrust the idea that regulation itself is subject to economic laws . |
| 16 | Where in the authorities difficulty has arisen this has often been the result of the introduction of an issue whether the creditor appointed the debtor as its agent to obtain the signature of the surety to the charge upon which the creditor sought to rely . |
| 17 | Taking as its bench mark the fears and anxieties of the lower middle classes , discipline and thrift were encouraged , safe streets promised and firm action taken against militants , trade unionists , terrorists and other folk devils . |
| 18 | ‘ I canna see it in this light ya fule , ’ the top-hat swayed angrily as its owner knocked the hand away . |
| 19 | As her anxiety grew the small towns and villages looked grey and inhospitable . |
| 20 | Whether sleeping under the starry African sky with wild animals roaming in the bush was part of the fun or genuine cause for concern it did not seem to disturb Eva who was always fast asleep as soon as her head touched the pillow . |
| 21 | She stripped to her panties , crawled into the sleeping-bag , and lapsed into unconsciousness as her head touched the pillow . |
| 22 | Betty was asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow . |
| 23 | Rachel groaned as her alarm sounded the following Monday morning and , rolling over , she flicked the button to silence it , then lay for a few minutes staring at the ceiling . |
| 24 | It surprised Tallis to see , as her eyesight penetrated the mask of leaf and wood , that this shaman was young , as young , perhaps , as Willow-jack and Jack-hazel . |
| 25 | He swung the bike downriver as her weight hit the pillion . |
| 26 | Her proposal of marriage came as a complete surprise as her boyfriend popped the question while they were on holiday in Spain . |
| 27 | She woke early on the morning of July 29 , 1981 which is not surprising as her room overlooked the Mall where the singing , chattering crowds had been gathering for days . |
| 28 | As her finger jabbed the button , suddenly a firm hand was on her sleeve . |
| 29 | Lina said to Shelley with a little grin , as her employer led the way down the grass towards the pool , ‘ Sometimes I think I will pretend to drown a little , to get Carlos to look at me . |
| 30 | Beneath one of them — in which a maiden seated by a statue was glancing about in fear of discovery as her lover scaled the garden wall to press his suit — stood Natasha , apparently lost in thought . |