Example sentences of "[verb] as [pron] [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're going to have to do something — because I simply ca n't tell you two imps of mischief apart , ’ Laura muttered , groaning as she levered herself up against the pillows . |
| 2 | ‘ I rescued your other shoe , ’ he added as he brought it out from behind his back . |
| 3 | The musky male scent of his cologne teased her nostrils , and she was ashamed at the way her knees were trembling as he led her over to sit down on the wide , comfortable couch . |
| 4 | But his hands were trembling as he put them back in his pockets , and a thick feeling rose up in his throat whenever he thought of Helen , which seemed to be nearly all the time . |
| 5 | ‘ Some charm , ’ she muttered as she threw herself down on the bed . |
| 6 | ‘ I have a taxi waiting , ’ he stated as he escorted her out of the hotel , explaining , ‘ It is not permitted to drink and drive at all in Czechoslovakia . ’ |
| 7 | Newman frowned as he worked it out . |
| 8 | Nicolo grinned as he drew her down beside him on a marble bench . |
| 9 | He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore . |
| 10 | Her shoes went flying as she kicked them off her feet . |
| 11 | Glynis chatted as she escorted them out . |
| 12 | She was always accompanied by her green parrot , who showed his pleasure , or displeasure , when her guests arrived as he followed her about . |
| 13 | ‘ Good boy , ’ the big man kept saying as he forced him down on to his knees . |
| 14 | She pulled her jumper off and handed it to him , then watched as he spread it out and laid the dead animal on it . |
| 15 | ‘ Keep it ! ’ she blazed as he tossed it on to the terrace by the front door . |
| 16 | We saw as he brought you over . |
| 17 | Silvio 's chair scraped as he shoved it back . |
| 18 | Poor old Elsie , I thought as I killed her off , but I felt fairly satisfied with my work . |
| 19 | ( 1 ) — for the satisfying crack the CD 's sleeve gave as I snapped it over my knee . |
| 20 | I read them and cried as they took me back through time , down the long bloody passageways of the last seventy-five years . |
| 21 | Before she could answer he pulled her close again and any thoughts of answering fled as she gave herself up to the excitement . |
| 22 | She smiled as they passed her by , and they saw revealed what Timothy Gedge had claimed : her beauty was marred by discoloured teeth . |
| 23 | It was a double one and the man on duty smiled as he let me in . |
| 24 | Bedelia said as she bustled us off to bed . |
| 25 | ‘ These are pretty mild , ’ he said as she swallowed them down . |
| 26 | ‘ Hi , ’ she said as she let him in . |
| 27 | ‘ I wish these bloody mobile phones had never been invented , ’ he said as he fished it out . |
| 28 | ‘ Brrrr — ’ he said as he held it up , ‘ Brrrr — I 'm a car driver , Brrrr — ’ |
| 29 | Raimondo 's words of gratitude faded as he hurried her out the showroom door to the street . |
| 30 | A mixture of fear , at being touched by a man at all — and something else , quite different — swept through Sally-Anne so that she began to tremble as he walked her through to the parlour . |