Example sentences of "as [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Shevardnadze put it in a speech to foreign ministry staff in 1987 , they represented a country which for the previous fifteen years had been ‘ more and more losing its position as one of the leading industrially developed countries ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'ear , ’ Madame laughed as Ellie examined herself in a mirror hand-held by the assistant , ‘ that in London these new 'ats are lethal ! |
| 3 | One fire engine was damaged as crews used it as a barrier while they tried to extinguish the fire in the building 's upper floor and roof . |
| 4 | ‘ Tina , darling , perhaps it 's time — ’ Lucenzo swore as Katarina interrupted him with a heart-rending wail . |
| 5 | There is a ‘ barrier ’ between the attractive and the unattractive — between , as Graham puts it on a later occasion , the ‘ beggars ’ and ‘ choosers ’ of the sexual life . |
| 6 | It was barely a whisper as Rune guided her to a seat half hidden by luxuriant foliage . |
| 7 | Margrida suggested , as Vitor ushered her into a four-wheel-drive Suzuki . |
| 8 | Joe is Pip 's brother-in-law and he suffers with Pip at the start as Pip regards him as a youthful counterpart and describes him as |
| 9 | Two Graham Bowen goals damaged Carlisle 's championship hopes as Redcar held them to a 2–2 draw . |
| 10 | The Iggy-mimicking singer , having removed his trousers , is prancing around in red underpants as Beast joins him for a rap style duet . |
| 11 | So they all got a good view as Ten-huc rasped something with a whiff of black mist , and Gharr whirled with teeth bared . |
| 12 | As Khrushchev camped it in a georgette gown . |
| 13 | IT WAS THE YEAR that electric cars were big but two-strokes were bigger as Jaguar told us of a supercharged two-stroke future and Pininfarina let us drive the Ethos . |
| 14 | As Christine takes us on a final tour of the house she and Doc D share in a village ten miles out of Norwich , I venture the question that must be on every SHE reader 's lips . |
| 15 | As Tyndale described himself in a letter to his disciple Frith , ‘ God hath made me ill favoured in this world , and without grace in the sight of men , speechless and rude , dull and ill witted . ’ |
| 16 | Athelstan hid his smile as Cranston waved him to a stool , sitting opposite in a great high-backed chair . |
| 17 | Then suddenly , as Bully pulled her to a standstill , she had an idea . |
| 18 | Petion stayed nervously by the door , and Ace joined him there , watching suspiciously as Dubois checked everything with a professional eye . |
| 19 | This is a temptation one should in general resist , as l regard it as a cardinal rule in developmental biology not to try to infer developmental mechanisms from final forms . |
| 20 | On a tour of India , Diana turned her face away as Charles forced himself into a stilted show of affection and his kiss turned into an ugly grimace . |
| 21 | ‘ Jesus , ’ Devlin said , as Leber led them towards a field car parked outside the radio hut . |
| 22 | As Bauer put it in a recent BBC television discussion of covert recognition , ‘ Our normal experience of perception , of seeing objects or faces as an all or none process , is a trick that the brain plays on us ’ . |
| 23 | He was obviously well-known because people nodded to him , smiled , glanced curiously at her as Feargal sat her at a small table at the rear . |
| 24 | As Wesley put it in an age stylistically more austere than that of Lyly : Style is the dress of thought ; a modest dress , Neat , but not gaudy , will true critics please . |
| 25 | The last words were shrieked at him as Doreen worked herself into a frenzy of rage which caused her to tremble violently . |
| 26 | As Reid led me on a tour of the hospital he said , ‘ She 's a po-faced old girl , but her heart 's in the right place ; and she understands the islanders . |