Example sentences of "as [noun] [verb] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He winked at Shannon , then closed the door behind him as Marianne turned angrily from the mirror . |
| 2 | THE report , Stevie explained as Patrick drove away from the station , had come through the British Embassy in Bucharest . |
| 3 | Butterflies as big as birds fell down from the branches , wings flopping limply . |
| 4 | As Russians penetrated southwards from the forested zone ( taiga ) to the wooded steppe , and then the open grasslands , they built new fortresses . |
| 5 | A great cheer when up as Ann broke away from the crowd and went after Harry , but she hardly heard it . |
| 6 | Madge held the folds of material away as Therese climbed down from the stage . |
| 7 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 8 | Sterling opened at Dm2.3157 , just above the all-time low it touched on Wednesday , but picked up through the day as dealers switched away from the German currency . |
| 9 | ‘ He does n't usually throw tantrums , ’ Ashley said ruefully , as Vitor came round from the boot , ‘ but he has had a very long day . ’ |
| 10 | As Bosnia pulls back from the brink of peace , we look at why the Bosnian Serbs rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan , at what the West might do next , and at the possibility now raised of a wider Balkan war |
| 11 | It was tea-time and the streets were busy as people walked home from the many small factories and warehouses in the East End . |
| 12 | But even this medium was no mere excitement , as God broke in from the beyond and seized him : there was communication . |
| 13 | As word came back from the matches in front it looked as if only Dr. Stephen Bonnard and Buck Finnegan were in serious contention . |
| 14 | The day was warm and sunny with a fair northerly breeze as Viking pulled away from the island , now transformed and softened by the good weather . |
| 15 | As Blake jumped down from the wall he fell heavily and broke his wrist . |
| 16 | It was as Ashley stepped away from the cot that she saw Vitor . |
| 17 | This is Nigel , ’ Juliet interrupted quickly , as Douglas came in from the garden . |
| 18 | As cells move upwards from the base , they continue to divide , but , unlike the stem cells , they have lost their immortality and they stop dividing when they approach the surface where they are sloughed off . |