Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nathaniel Sherman looked at his sons and beamed proudly as they joined the group around the governor . |
| 2 | The snatching is usual on full lock as the universal joint in each front drive shaft speeds up and slows down as it is not a constant velocity joint ( unlike the V8 109 and Range Rover ) . |
| 3 | Then , just ten feet below the fox and some seventy feet from the ground , he stopped and clung tightly as the pole swayed in the wind . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , such a day , and to stroll along as I did so many times in the old days . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Most were working to clean weapons or saddlery , and only a few looked up and gazed incuriously as the party rode past . |
| 7 | He found himself wishing he was at home again , at Polly 's home , and could creep stealthily into the twins ' room and sit there as he sometimes had at night , on the floor among their discarded toys and cuddly animals , with his back to the wall , listening to the sound of their breathing . |
| 8 | You begin at the centre or main idea ( rather than at the top ) and branch out as dictated by the individual ideas and general form of the central theme . |
| 9 | The core is aligned with one coil picking up the north-south field and inclined at roughly 67° to the horizontal and adjusted so as to produce the largest positive output from the amplifier . |
| 10 | Where there is only one in-situ anchor , or else you are making your own anchor points , the first person down should have back-up protection , clipped independently into the abseil ropes , and adjusted so as to come into immediate effect if the main anchor fails , but without directly supporting it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the stunned silence George Felse got up , without speaking , and crossed the room to where Gus 's jacket hung on the back of a chair , turned towards the replenished fire , and steamed gently as it dried . |
| 13 | It gave Anna real pain to post magazines through one new front door hinged and studded so as to resemble part of the set for a pantomime of Robin Hood , and then another , moulded and classically pedimented , between half-pilasters made of fibreglass . |
| 14 | He was simply told to ignore bazaar gossip and to carry on as planned . |
| 15 | Superantigens do this by bypassing the normal route of intracellular processing and binding directly as intact proteins to class II MHC molecules at a site distinct from the peptide binding groove ; they also bind to most allelic forms of class II molecules rather than to restricted alleles as do conventional peptide antigens . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He took her hand between both his own , turning it palm upwards and gazing down as though he were a fortune-teller , searching the damp pinkness of her flesh for answers to all sorts of impossible questions . |
| 18 | My lungs exploded , imploded , exploded , imploded ; plumes of wet sand flew from my soles , rising as I sped on , falling in little curves and spattering back as I raced on into the distance . |
| 19 | Wilson and Jones , in their investigations of this effect , did not test the carcinogens on cells , but on DNA extracted from cells and treated so as to make it mimic the methylated DNA of a dividing cell . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Migraine , too , is followed by nausea and vomit rather as sin is followed by remorse . |
| 22 | She estimated that its body was about twice the size of the shuttle , but it seemed much larger because of the mottled membranes that extended like wings on both sides of the creature , and rippled lazily as it swam through space . |
| 23 | Lucy , all this time , was still sitting on the verandah surrounded by her cartridge-making tools and weeping bitterly as she looked at the neat rows of cartridges she had made and which were no longer needed . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | Consent is represented as the critical feature of the law which ensures the patient 's right to self-determination , whereas , in fact , it is referred to and manipulated so as to produce the opposite result . |
| 27 | Unfortunately for the CEGB , it could n't seize the time and push ahead as fast with its plans as it wanted . |
| 28 | The implicit tax would thus rise and fall precisely as needed to counter speculative pressures . |
| 29 | ‘ Dr Proctor has been kept in seclusion temporarily in the time-locked underground strongroom of the Anchorage branch of the GenTech Nomura Agricultural Loan and Trust Co , and has not as yet been able to confer with his lawyers or issue a public statement . |
| 30 | 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 . |