Example sentences of "[adv] in the [noun] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It all began because my friend Pat was called by the Lord to work as a nurse in Saudi , and her experiences there gave me an interest in that country and especially in the Women as they seem to have such a hard life . |
| 2 | It was not a happy journey to the car and I sat silently and unhappily in the back as we drove away , despite my friends ' jolly attempts to think up song titles with the word ‘ flask ’ in them . |
| 3 | He saw his own feet thrashing the water like dying fish , and his good leather shoes turning idly in the current as they rushed underground . |
| 4 | The loose rocks were carried away in the ice as it slipped downhill into the valleys . |
| 5 | Needless to say , she was not in the chorus as she had legs like inverted beer bottles . |
| 6 | Debt earns interest just as easily in the West as it does in the Third World . |
| 7 | You go into a café where the sight and smell of freshly baked Danish pastries hits you squarely in the face as you walk through the door . |
| 8 | Tesselmann grabbed at the handle of the freight car and hauled himself off the ground , his legs swinging precariously in the air as he tried to clasp his other hand around the handle . |
| 9 | He went off on a political career and before long was a Member of the European Parliament , always in the news as he made himself available for interviews and revealed a great flair for leading controversial campaigns . |
| 10 | She went to sit stiffly in the stern as they nosed cautiously out through the ranks of yachts , and then through the litter of fishing-boats , the bright Phoenician ‘ Eye of Osiris ’ painted on their bows , superstitiously warding off evil . |
| 11 | The experience of witnessing psychosocially normal people from a wide range of abilities and backgrounds telling the stories of their individual experience and what has been done to them , would be the best method of ensuring that sufferers from addictive disease are not treated as dismissively in the future as they have tended to be in the past . |
| 12 | It had been paced off in the sand as he announced the dimensions to the architect . |
| 13 | If you need potting compost now , buy just enough for your immediate needs and then buy more in the spring as it can go off . |
| 14 | We 've also positioned a simple heaterstat ( PFK May ) — low in the tanks as it will later be concealed by decor , but NOT touching the gravel . |
| 15 | No.4 Troop had caught a section of German defenders early in the battle as they ran to their alarm posts , but other Germans , many of whom had seen action in Norway in 1940 , tenaciously defended the strongpoints including the improvised fortifications of the Ulvesund Hotel . |
| 16 | I caught it with the catapult , the thick black tubing of the rubber twisting once in the air as I scissored my hands and fell back , letting the buck go over my head and then kicking with my legs and turning myself so that I was level with it where it lay , kicking and struggling with the power of a wolverine , spreadeagled on the sand slope with its neck caught in the black rubber . |
| 17 | The wounded were still in the barn as I entered to get my rucksack . |
| 18 | Dunbar in turn was a friend of Peter Asher , also in the charts as one half of Peter and Gordon , Westminster School 's contribution to the mid 1960s . |
| 19 | He looks me straight in the eyes as he takes his hand from my glass . |
| 20 | The lad looked his father straight in the eye as he gave his blunt answer . |
| 21 | ‘ Sir , ’ said the lady , looking him straight in the eye as he paused in his task to glance at her , so that his hand stilled and his gaze remained on her serious face , ‘ I am no more the victim of circumstance than are you . |
| 22 | The Scots , in particular , got a hell of a lot out the Empire , proportionately the Scots had many more positions of influence and profit in the Empire than we did , and I think Scottish nationalism had it 's economic roots in the last twenty/thirty years from a realization that the Empire 's over , and that great outlet for Scottish energy , education and ambition was closed , therefore the Scots are shut up in the island as they used not to be . |
| 23 | A short bout of exercise has a further role , namely of waking you up in the morning as it turns on the alerting mechanisms of the body . |
| 24 | As the disturbance goes more deeply into the organism from the physical to the emotional plane , from the emotional to the mental and finally to the spiritual , it is at the same time becoming higher up in the organism as it is pictured diagrammatically in Figure 3 . |
| 25 | She stood helplessly in the road as it shot past . |
| 26 | Terms such as balance sheet , assets , liabilities , claims , liquidity and capital adequacy will inevitably arise later in the book as it seeks to identify the inter-relationship between financial flows and world economic development . |
| 27 | Sophia could see the light on in the hall as she came up to Ianthe 's front door , but the front rooms were in darkness . |
| 28 | the less experienced teams might prefer to be placed early on in the programme as it can be unnerving to be left waiting ; |
| 29 | In addition you can sit out in the square as we did in Italy and have hamburgers and beer . |
| 30 | Murray reached for the mop but Richard pulled it away and squeezed it out in the bucket as he had seen the maids do . |