Example sentences of "[noun] as [pron] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hosanna could see it too , and would prick up his ears as he sat on her lap and focus on Gabriel moving around by the sink or fixing the green curtains at the window . |
| 2 | They had to take their places on a enormous swing ; once seated it was lowered from the flies until the audience could only see their legs as they went through their act . |
| 3 | One terrified victim was shot in the legs as he sat in his top-of-the-range Mercedes at traffic lights . |
| 4 | He moved down her , the hard smooth flesh of his body , the velvet rasp of the hard penis as it rubbed against her belly , her thigh … . |
| 5 | During this time , anyone with a satellite dish can watch and listen to the candidates as they prepare for their interview . |
| 6 | His mouth twisted , a flash of antagonism in the depth of his eyes as they dwelt on her challenging face . |
| 7 | Her lips moved to plead , but no sound passed them , and she glimpsed the flare of satisfaction in Luke 's smouldering eyes as they flickered to her mouth , which was like a crushed flower now , a red rose , brilliant and vulnerable . |
| 8 | The girl obeyed , sympathy in her eyes as she gazed at her mistress . |
| 9 | Tears welled in her eyes as she wondered about her loved ones . |
| 10 | Which was exactly why , of course , he had taken the trouble to come all this way to look into my eyes as he asked for my help . |
| 11 | His yellow hair flopped into his blue eyes as he did up her girths for her . |
| 12 | To our western eyes as he stood in his raggy , holed clothes in front of his mud hut he would appear very poor . |
| 13 | Donna tasted her own blood as it ran into her mouth from the cut on her lip . |
| 14 | Supt Alwyn Harris , 51 , was killed yesterday morning when an IRA boobytrap bomb exploded underneath his car as he drove with his wife to church . |
| 15 | If this is the case , then you may well want lots of hardy infantry and plenty of missile troops to scythe down the opposition as they advance on your army . |
| 16 | He went rigid , his head lifting as he stared into her eyes for one brief moment that held all eternity within it . |
| 17 | He sounded friendly , his grim mood lifting as he concentrated on his driving and the island they were going to visit . |
| 18 | The question crossed Sabrina Carver 's mind as she stood with her left hand looped through the handle hanging from the rail above her in the aisle of the packed subway train as it hurtled through the cavernous tunnels beneath New York . |
| 19 | We got two Grieg classics — Spring and I Love You — and then the Prokofiev , a delight with its roaming tonalities , its incisive sketches and its shafts of psychological insight ( like the thrilling high speeded-up waltz , with music-box runs all over the place , that played in the duckling 's mind as he looked at his reflection and found he was a swan ) . |
| 20 | His interior monologues convey the thoughts that pass through his mind as he lies on his deathbed and reviews his past life with a mixture of pride and guilt . |
| 21 | He windmilled them at speed in improbable directions , knocking over the Perks as they rose to their feet . |
| 22 | Pink patches appeared on Auntie Lou 's neck as she looked at her brother . |
| 23 | It was unreasonable to feel shocked by this , I thought , watching them from the edge of the terrace as they sat at our table and Richard ordered drinks : a young woman with an older man is not even a cause for surprise . |
| 24 | When the teller announced the Magharba vote at 1235 , implying a Magharba majority , the Zuwaya immediately protested that Magharba were present who had no right to vote : after a check of identity cards some men left and they began the vote again , this time counting both groups of supporters as they passed behind their goals . |
| 25 | ‘ Hallo , ’ she says , by way of a general greeting as she fishes for her door key in her coat pocket . |
| 26 | Although there is no direct evidence on the subject of Richard 's upbringing and education — we do not even know the names of his tutors as we do in his father 's case — it is none the less possible , by using romances and treatises , to reconstruct the type of education which he must have undergone . |
| 27 | Er we are confirmed in our reservations about this by the results of the regional census study as I noted in my brief commentary N Y three . |
| 28 | The existence of vegetation , and its changing nature , explains much of the evolutionary success of dinosaurs as they adapted to their environment . |
| 29 | Japanese fashion-lovers take as much care of their underwear as they do of their overwear . |
| 30 | Combwich ( pronounced ‘ Cumidge ’ ) is a quiet , picturesque community clustered round a bend in the River Parrett as it meanders on its way from the sea to Bridgwater Docks . |