Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it would be I suppose it would be possible that that they could start their time together and work right through for years together , but invariably er that did n't happen because people were picked up and laid off as the boat progressed , er and if er Y you may get a a run for the one yard would need , say , six squads of of riveters , in a hurry . |
| 2 | The Brigadier was red in the face : Things are n't as they should be … ’ he began again , and tailed off as the Captain indicated that he should sit down . |
| 3 | Nobody appeared to show the least surprise when Charles appeared in Service Dress after his servant had arranged a room at the farm for the change and a hot water wash after a little light work on the trench system , trenches that bore every resemblance to those he had seen and read about as constructed in the First War . |
| 4 | What the Campaign is against is fake , poor quality imitation lagers being foisted on unsuspecting drinkers and passed off as being genuinely European or Australian . |
| 5 | Mr Gay pulled a knife from his waistband , but was so drunk he dropped it and Cameron picked it up and fought back as he was beaten with a baton . |
| 6 | If the city 's culture lies in its heritage , its great literary tradition — Wilde , Shaw , Joyce , Beckett , O'Casey and all that — then surely the celebrations must involve a recognition that they found the city less than congenial and got out as soon as they could ? |
| 7 | The sand took up many different colours to the right , while high up on the left was a cliff-face — the wall of a plateau — where the rock had been whitewashed and hollowed out as someone 's home . |
| 8 | He winced at the sight and drew back as though she had struck him . |
| 9 | He dropped the gun from his shoulder again , and bent over as the laughter wracked him , all the more powerful for being silent , for being trapped inside . |
| 10 | I fell asleep on the floor of the corridor somewhere near Lyons and woke up as we were drawing into St Charles station at Marseilles . |
| 11 | She was sitting miserably brooding when Marguerite tapped on her door and came in as Jenna invited her . |
| 12 | She was twenty-five years old and still a virgin , and as she looked at her image in the mirror great tears welled up and spilled over as she relived Ace 's words . |
| 13 | To values grasped and shaped out as he goes , |
| 14 | Its face was blunt and furred and screwed up as though about to burst into tears . |
| 15 | Dandelion turned and raced back as Pipkin came up . |
| 16 | Have words of hymns printed and handed out as people enter the church . |
| 17 | Externally the palazzo is genuinely four-sided , I say ‘ genuinely ’ because although all buildings are four-sided ( unless they are triangular ) , each of the four sides can not always be viewed and walked along as they can here . |
| 18 | A POLICE officer who grabbed a car thief and hung on as he drove off has been commended for his bravery by Durham chief constable Frank Taylor . |
| 19 | I swayed and stumbled along as best I could , trusting to luck and the two people with me . |
| 20 | ‘ Rascals , ’ Fat Watt said when he noticed the far-off plumes of smoke , and stumbled off as though everything had been said that could be said . |
| 21 | Dennis ran down the concrete slope and leapt in as the craft relaunched itself with a loud splash , taking on quite a lot of water . |
| 22 | The goose was sitting on eggs and flew off as we approached . |
| 23 | He waved his glass casually at Noolan , who smiled and waved back as he went to join a small group standing by the bar . |
| 24 | In a game the pain of life can safely be recaptured , encountered and switched off as required , for as we have seen , a game and all other forms of playing including the arts are deliberately created second-order experiences , removed from the rawness of living . |
| 25 | He had a video camera on his shoulder last November , when a mob doused three thieves with petrol and looked on as they burned . |
| 26 | Trevor Magee stopped and looked up as the pigeons took off , anxious to avoid him as he made his way across Trafalgar Square . |
| 27 | as if slapped across the face , she opened her eyes and looked up as her monster was tugged off its feet by invisible forces . |
| 28 | I chatted to a Dublin-bound nurse in the seat beside me , and looked out as lakes , rivers and deeply-furrowed potato patches flashed by . |
| 29 | She opened the rear door and looked in as though looking for something she had mislaid . |
| 30 | She tossed her hair out of her eyes and looked down as Adrian approached . |