Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] as [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 2 | There are other good vignettes of people telephoning each other to say goodbye , huddling in corner stores and generally acting as they do in scary SF movies . |
| 3 | Dusk was just falling as they turned into the parking area down by the river . |
| 4 | For a short time she stood still and silent , scarcely breathing as she revelled in the novelty of his tenderness , but presently her body started stirring in response to the warmth of his mouth , a new sweetness to her desire . |
| 5 | Joe was not smiling as he looked at her . |
| 6 | He was still shouting as they walked past the barbed wire and the concrete blocks down to the waterline . |
| 7 | She pocketed the Beretta , her hands still trembling as she thought of how close she had come to firing on the turn . |
| 8 | Daylight was quickly fading as they walked up the street to the nurse 's house . |
| 9 | RACING legend Lester Piggott last night vowed to carry on riding as he lay in his The 11-times champion jockey has a partially collapsed lung , broken collar bone , damaged spleen , broken ribs and facial cuts after falling from his horse at 40mph in Miami . |
| 10 | They were practically cheering as they raced across the scabby grass down to the mill . |
| 11 | No no cos it could n't be worse than the one in the girls toilets today seeing as someone shat on the floor |
| 12 | As always , his knack of disarming was successful , and she was even laughing as they went into the foyer of the Tudor Queen where Sam and Anna awaited them . |
| 13 | Her mouth was actually watering as she thought of Theresa 's cooking . |
| 14 | He was therefore scowling as he bumped into his own wife , who was coming out of the Russell Inn just as he was entering . |