Example sentences of "[pron] as [pron] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had seemed to him that her eyes looked right into his as he stood in the darkened hall , staring into the room . |
| 2 | Sacked three times from the county football manager post , McEniff can be forgiven the odd pinch of himself as he takes in the widespread adulation accorded to him now everywhere he goes . |
| 3 | If you take all of the money that has been spent since the policy was established in nineteen eighty eight , it still does not amount to twenty pence per child which as I said in a previous erm question , answer to a previous question , is bare would barely buy a pencil for each child . |
| 4 | So , of course , what happened was that you had all these wonderful posters about you as you walked in the foyer and as the punters came out drunk , you sold them weekends in Ibiza . |
| 5 | Think of all the information your eyes collect for you as you walk in the street , talk to someone , catch a train , read a newspaper , take part in a meeting . |
| 6 | This could be I do n't think acid spends itself as it sits in a bottle does it ? |
| 7 | It is a practical objection not one of principle , and I believe that it was the fundamental reason that Lord Reid , for example , considered the general rule to be a good one as he said in the passage my noble and learned friend has cited from Beswick v. Beswick [ 1968 ] A.C. 58 , 74A . |
| 8 | Liam was n't sure , but he had the feeling Nellie was beginning to take an interest , and was even enjoying herself as they sat in the bus . |
| 9 | You will count very slowly to ten , Hilary admonished herself as she stood in the lane watching Leo 's rapidly diminishing figure . |
| 10 | They married in June 1789 , and a month later , in despair and rage , he murdered her as they walked in the darkness to the Castle of Comfort Inn . |
| 11 | They both then sprinted off and were out of sight before the group of concerned shoppers could reach her as she lay in a faint on the bottom step below the church . |
| 12 | Her only chance to escape had been at the beginning , when Miguel had loomed above her as she lay in the garden . |
| 13 | The conversation was dying all around her as she looked in the direction that had been indicated . |
| 14 | But most of the time she ignored the dogs that hovered around her as she slept in the sun or beavered around the village in pursuit of this or that scent . |
| 15 | She paused for breath and his laser-blue eyes narrowed , sending tiny ripples of shock running through her as she took in the dark eyebrows , a strong nose and firmly sculpted mouth . |
| 16 | And just as she was feeling sure and secure , a smile becoming a real part of her as she gloried in the feeling growing between them , Lucy gave her to understand that she was going away for three weeks . |
| 17 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |
| 18 | It was not the horrendous drop that had frightened her as she rode in the Land Rover . |
| 19 | It had toppled on to her as she played in the garden at their home in Macclesfield , Cheshire . |
| 20 | Samantha Self , of Green Court Drive , Bognor Regis , West Sussex , was taken to hospital and released after treatment for head injuries after the dog attacked her as she played in the garden of a house at Hatherleigh Gardens , Bognor Regis , on Tuesday night . |
| 21 | A ragged legion passed by her as she huddled in a thicket of thorn and holly , her hand gently covering the muzzle of her horse . |
| 22 | But she started again after a robber held a knife to her as she worked in a petrol station . |
| 23 | At least four of the men were watching her as she stood in the hall , yawning prettily and obviously bewildered by the disturbance . |
| 24 | The speaker broke off , turning to stare at her as she stood in the doorway . |
| 25 | She felt cold , although the central heating had been on all morning , and took a large brown woollen shawl out of a drawer and wrapped it round her as she sat in the beanbag and listened . |
| 26 | This sound , tautening to the pitch of a screech , interrupted Davide 's growing up ; it had frightened children like him as they played in the streets , but sent a shiver through them that also excited them . |
| 27 | His husky moan of arousal as she placed her hands on his warm chest shattered the last remnants of any uncertainty she might have felt , and her arms closed about him as she revelled in the hard pressure of Ross 's body , the slight roughness of his masculine jaw as her silk gown was torn away and he pressed his burning lips to the soft , fragrant valley between her full breasts . |
| 28 | I think I thought I wanted to be part of that companionship too but knew it would conclude with my entry But that did n't have to happen because he was closing the kitchen door behind him as I arrived in the passage . |
| 29 | The young midfielder was an unknown Chelsea reserve when a gang set upon him as he played in a park five-a-side in West London last summer . |
| 30 | The clerk glared angrily at him as he paused in the doorway . |