Example sentences of "as [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth arched desperately against him as powerfully he slid his hands under her hips and pulled her hard against every muscle that strained feverishly at his jeans . |
| 2 | Their lips met once more as slowly they savoured the pure essence of love . |
| 3 | His taunt had infuriated her , as presumably he 'd intended , but right now his blatant rudeness was the least of her worries . |
| 4 | IT IS EASY to write off the Science Museum as somewhere you have already visited . |
| 5 | as down she went all tenderness and laughter . |
| 6 | The to following allow and permit can be conceived with either an initial interception , as in ( 212 ) and ( 213 ) , or a final one , as in They stood by and allowed him to steal my car . |
| 7 | In ( 1 ) above this gives rise to an impression of a prospective event , of a desire or longing on the part of the speaker to realize the action denoted by the infinitive , so that the to infinitive produces basically the same sort of impression in this first type of exclamation as in He struggled to get free : it evokes a prospective non-realized event . |
| 8 | We shall assume that the syntactic positions for adjectives in English are as below ; we give first the intensional pattern of which each is the surface exponent , as well as an example for each , and also an instance which is ungrammatical and where we shall later be able to suggest reasons for the ungrammaticality ; in each case we shall underline in the intensional pattern the property which is instantiated by the adjective , merely for clarification and not as an integral part of the notation : [ P E ] prenominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : adjective + noun as in hungry passengers ; but note that *asleep kittens is ungrammatical { [ E ] ( P ) } ordinary predicative position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + be + adjective as in the critics were upset ; but note that her husband was mere is ungrammatical [ E P ] postnominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + adjective as in the crimes alleged ; but note that the road wide is ungrammatical ( ( P E ) P ) predicate qualifying position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + noun phrase + adjective as in he brought his gun loaded ; but note that she uses her mixer lightweight is ungrammatical [ E ( P P ) ] postverbal position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + adjective as in the crowd remained angry ; but note that his brother resisted obstinate is ungrammatical ( ( P P ) E ) adverbal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : verb + noun phrase + adjective as in Ali rubbed the lamp clean ; but note that Mark resembles the officer sinister is ungrammatical ( P { E P } ) clausal position = surface syntactic sequence : verb + noun phrase ( + be ) + adjective as in he considers the prosecution case hopeless but note that Sue reported the prizes aplenty is ungrammatical { E P } P extraclausal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : adjective + clause as in furious , the king ordered many arrests but note that furious , the king had three wives is ungrammatical As we have said , these are the adjectival positions of English ( and possibly of any natural human language ) . |
| 9 | We shall assume that the syntactic positions for adjectives in English are as below ; we give first the intensional pattern of which each is the surface exponent , as well as an example for each , and also an instance which is ungrammatical and where we shall later be able to suggest reasons for the ungrammaticality ; in each case we shall underline in the intensional pattern the property which is instantiated by the adjective , merely for clarification and not as an integral part of the notation : [ P E ] prenominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : adjective + noun as in hungry passengers ; but note that *asleep kittens is ungrammatical { [ E ] ( P ) } ordinary predicative position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + be + adjective as in the critics were upset ; but note that her husband was mere is ungrammatical [ E P ] postnominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + adjective as in the crimes alleged ; but note that the road wide is ungrammatical ( ( P E ) P ) predicate qualifying position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + noun phrase + adjective as in he brought his gun loaded ; but note that she uses her mixer lightweight is ungrammatical [ E ( P P ) ] postverbal position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + adjective as in the crowd remained angry ; but note that his brother resisted obstinate is ungrammatical ( ( P P ) E ) adverbal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : verb + noun phrase + adjective as in Ali rubbed the lamp clean ; but note that Mark resembles the officer sinister is ungrammatical ( P { E P } ) clausal position = surface syntactic sequence : verb + noun phrase ( + be ) + adjective as in he considers the prosecution case hopeless but note that Sue reported the prizes aplenty is ungrammatical { E P } P extraclausal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : adjective + clause as in furious , the king ordered many arrests but note that furious , the king had three wives is ungrammatical As we have said , these are the adjectival positions of English ( and possibly of any natural human language ) . |
| 10 | There are two principal syntactic differences between these two verbs — first , finish can occur without an overt direct object , as in Have you finished ? , whereas complete in the relevant sense requires an overt direct object ; second , finish can take a gerund complement , as in I 've finished eating , but complete can not ( * I 've completed reading ) . |
| 11 | Probably some degree of oddness is an inescapable penalty for calling an unestablished unit into service ; this abnormality may be very slight , as in A large novel fell on my head , or it may be considerable , as in I received a lot of kindness from him — would you like to try a bottle ? : |
| 12 | Came out by the same Door as in I went |
| 13 | IN THIS game ( known as science-writing , as in I science-write , you science-write , he/she science writes ) it pays to know about jargon . |
| 14 | We generally assume that stress falls on DO when used for emphasis , as in I did see him . |
| 15 | And it may also demand analysis of the constructions that a word may appear in , for instance , that a verb like want can be followed by the term for what is wanted , as in I want that block ; or by a clause , as in I want him to come here . |
| 16 | And it may also demand analysis of the constructions that a word may appear in , for instance , that a verb like want can be followed by the term for what is wanted , as in I want that block ; or by a clause , as in I want him to come here . |
| 17 | Intonational accentuation , combined with stress , often indicates emphasis , as in I do wish you 'd be more tidy ! ( high fall on do ) . |
| 18 | Prime was brought down when to escape a hostile bid from MAI Systems Corp , it agreed to one of the last — and most doomed — leveraged buyouts in the computer industry by a group led by J H Whitney & Co , just before the boom fell on such transactions , which saddled Prime with a debt burden that at the time looked unsustainable — as so it has proved . |
| 19 | A quietness , a mystery , a peace , as only he has painted it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ For now , I would rather look at you , take in your beauty and your warmth , hear your voice and bask in your smile — see you in reality just as hitherto I have seen you only in my dreams ! ’ |
| 21 | If the agreement between Viola and Hilda was to hold — as apparently it had held after the murder-then Rose was the principal beneficiary . |
| 22 | Especially as apparently you 'd gone out in a hurry and not taken a handbag . |
| 23 | People who see that high training encourages success , as obviously it does for Nissan , will follow the designs and needs of the marketplace and will themselves introduce high training . |
| 24 | Moreover , few types of resource-based learning are as clearcut as perhaps they sound to the newcomer ; there is always the possibility , indeed the likelihood , that at any one point the teacher may find it necessary to intervene , to establish a point , to correct a set of errors , to reinforce an insight , or to bring in an additional set of experiences , including the experience of argument and group debate while the interest is hot . |
| 25 | But it is not as easy as perhaps it sounds . |
| 26 | The Formalist principle whereby ‘ the forms of art are explainable by the laws of art ; they are not justified by their realism ’ ( Shklovsky 1965b : 57 ) is manifest in almost every aspect of Sterne 's novel and does not have to be inferred from it by analysis ( as perhaps it does in Gogol 's Overcoat ) . |
| 27 | He adduces some non-musical reasons ( the plague of Thomas Nashe 's London in 1592 has 400 years later a qualitative and psychological , if not numerical , counterpart ) , but the score itself speaks to us now as perhaps it did not manage to do in its own time , when for ‘ significant ’ and profound modernity people looked towards composers who made a more assertive break with tradition . |
| 28 | are Michaelmas daisies , as perhaps you 've guessed , |
| 29 | Other colleagues working in schools or adult training centres from our authority were also asked to participate , as together we had previously set up a voluntary curriculum development group to look at authority-wide provision for young people and adults with severe learning difficulties . |
| 30 | I can still see her as I first met her , a skinny , energetic schoolgirl with a flower in her shining black hair , who quickly grew into a beautiful woman and whose life became entwined with mine as together we triumphed over disease , over prejudice and even over war . |