Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] as [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a sigh I went on a few steps further to George 's office and found him as I 'd expected , fully dressed , lightly napping , with worked-on forms pushed to one side beside an empty coffee cup . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm convinced that the resolution of all this lies buried deep in your unconscious , ’ he told me as we sat chatting in his office at the DDU . |
| 3 | He loves you , ’ said Comfort , and Julia believed her as she had believed her all those years before when Comfort had been urging her to fall in love with him . |
| 4 | At gunpoint , the woman walked slowly towards the main door , carefully adjusted the lock , and then slammed it as she ran to call police . |
| 5 | She reported that she had already removed , cleaned and returned them as she had caught some wool under one of them . |
| 6 | Paige scarcely heard him as he continued to talk ; she was battling her own reaction to that brief caress . |
| 7 | The question surprised her as she had expected him to pick up on her insult . |
| 8 | His sure touch for once betrayed him as he fumbled to intercept Chris Malkin 's through ball , allowing Pat Nevin to slip in guide the ball home past ‘ keeper Kevin Poole . |
| 9 | This comforted him as it had comforted him half a dozen times this afternoon , but his mind remained basically uneasy . |
| 10 | The irony of the situation hit her as she began preparing a meal from the provisions she 'd brought with her . |
| 11 | ‘ Have a siesta , ’ Claudia urged her as they 'd finished coffee . |
| 12 | Why had n't Shamrock 's owners looked after her and loved her as we had done ? |
| 13 | He almost lost it as he came to rest , but at the last moment he twisted onto his back and with both hands pressed his prize thankfully against his frilled inside shirt front . |
| 14 | William met her as they 'd arranged , and they quietly disappeared , like two thieves in the night . ’ |
| 15 | They broke into partly-paralysed Rosemarie Smith 's ground-floor flat and brutally attacked her as she tried to escape . |
| 16 | I asked her as I began opening drawers to see how much had to be packed . |
| 17 | Had the vibrations of Kershaw reached it as it lay slumbering in the earth ? |
| 18 | Clara liked it as she had liked everything that afternoon , but even as she stood there and admired , and heard the history of the lump of mosaic , and listened to Martin 's views on Candida 's view on the social connotations of goldfish , she began to feel a sense of overwhelming fatigue . |
| 19 | His hand under her arm steadied her as they moved to stand at the rail . |
| 20 | Finally , it ended it as it had began , with a problem of communication . |