Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blyth had lots of time to realise what was happening , jumping about the Snake Park screaming as the frantic and enraged snake bit his stump repeatedly , and little Esmerelda must have had some inkling what was going to happen to her as she was slowly blown away . |
| 2 | Her words scarcely registered with Anne as she knelt beside the bed where her mother lay , perspiration running down her white face and small moans escaping her as she was fiercely gripped by pain . |
| 3 | We can see him as it were constantly restraining his inventiveness , constantly trying to conform to an orthodox view against which his thoughts and emotions rebel , constantly trying to justify Chinese intelligence by dragging it a little nearer to some Western precedent . |
| 4 | She looked up and saw Felipe lying at the top , head and shoulders over the drop , and Mitch joined him as she was still looking dazedly upwards . |
| 5 | It would have been parochial of us not to have mentioned it as it is still used in many other countries . |
| 6 | I 'm acting as your analyst ( and is n't this extremely generous of me as you 're not paying ? ) . |
| 7 | For my part , I think it would be open to the English courts to apply the civil law maxim directly to the situations we have in these two appeals , and treat the two plaintiffs as lives in being at the times of the events which injured them as they were later born alive , but it is not necessary to do so directly in view of the effect which the Montreal Tramways case [ 1933 ] 4 D.L.R. 337 has already had in the development of the common law in this field in other common law jurisdictions . |
| 8 | She felt sick , even though there was no skin contact between them as he was already wearing his inner cotton gloves . |
| 9 | It 's hard not to get indigestion when eating with them as you are constantly chatting with them . |
| 10 | They did n't give any details about the Leeds match ( or I may have missed them as I was simultaneously talking on the phone ) . |